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Victoria Strauss

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http://www.goodreads.com/VictoriaStrauss

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Exeter, NH, The United States

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female

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http://www.victoriastrauss.com

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Science Fiction & Fantasy, Young Adult, Historical Fiction

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February 2011

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I'm the author of eight novels for adults and young adults, including the Stone duology ("The Arm of the Stone" and "The Garden of the Stone"); the Way of Arata duology ("The Burning Land" and "The Awakened City"); and "Passion Blue," a novel for teens that'll be published in 2012. I've reviewed books for SF Site, Black Gate, and Fantasy magazine, and my articles on writing and how to get published have appeared in Writer’s Digest and elsewhere. In 2006, I served as a judge for the World Fantasy Awards.

I'm an active member of the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America (SFWA), and co-founder, with Ann Crispin, of Writer Beware, a publishing industry watchdog group that warns about literary schemes and scams. I maintain the Writer Bew...more

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Judge Grants Class Status to Authors in Authors Guild v. Google Lawsuit

Posted by Victoria Strauss for Writer Beware

An important legal ruling was handed down yesterday by Judge Denny Chin in the five-year-old Authors Guild v. Google class action lawsuit over Google's scanning of millions of in-copyright books.

(A bit of history on the dispute: Google has argued that the scanning--intended to build a the world's biggest digital library--as well as the display of sni... read more »

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Books by Victoria Strauss

Average rating: 3.82 · 176 ratings · 25 reviews · 9 distinct works

	The Arm Of The Stone 3.79 avg rating — 76 ratings — published 1998 — 5 editions	My rating:
	The Burning Land 3.85 avg rating — 26 ratings — published 2004 — 2 editions	My rating:
	The Garden of the Stone 3.95 avg rating — 39 ratings — published 1999 — 5 editions	My rating:
	The Awakened City 3.50 avg rating — 14 ratings — published 2006 — 4 editions	My rating:
	Worldstone 3.18 avg rating — 11 ratings — 2 editions	My rating:
	Guardian of the Hills 4.33 avg rating — 3 ratings — published 1995	My rating:
	The Lady Of Rhuddesmere 5.00 avg rating — 2 ratings	My rating:
	Passion Blue 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — expected publication 2012	My rating:
	Cast of Characters: A Novelists Inc Anthology by Lou Aronica (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Julie Ortolon (contributor), Angie Fox (Goodreads Author) (Contributor) 4.60 avg rating — 5 ratings — published 2012 — 2 editions	My rating:

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Series by Victoria Strauss

Stone (2 books)
by Victoria Strauss (Goodreads Author)

3.79 avg rating — 126 ratings

Way of Arata (2 books)
by Victoria Strauss (Goodreads Author)

3.73 avg rating — 40 ratings

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Victoria Strauss wrote a new blog post: Judge Grants Class Status to Authors in Authors Guild v. Google Lawsuit Judge Grants Class Status to Authors in Authors Guild v. Google Lawsuit Posted by Victoria Strauss for Writer Beware An important legal ruling was handed down yesterday by Judge Denny Chin in the five-year-old Authors Gu... read more »
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Victoria Strauss gave to: Ship Breaker (Ship Breaker, #1) by Paolo Bacigalupi	My rating:
A coming-of-age novel that’s a bit slow to start, but ultimately engrossing. What stands out for me aren’t so much the characters–protagonists Nailer and Nita are complex and believable, but many of the supporting characters are sketchily drawn–or the...more
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Victoria Strauss gave to: When the Sea is Rising Red by Cat Hellisen (Goodreads Author)	My rating:
A haunting YA fantasy by a debut author. Seventeen-year-old Felicita, a sheltered aristocrat, flees the rigid traditions and stifling conventions of her caste, taking refuge in the slums and falling in with a rag-tag band of outcasts, grifters, and re...more
Apr 25, 2012 08:49am · see review
Victoria Strauss gave to: The Night Circus by Erin Morgenstern	My rating:
Really 3.5 stars, but I rounded up because of the quality of the writing. A circus of dreams, open only during the hours of darkness. An ancient duel between two powerful sorcerers, enacted by proxy through a succession of students who are never allow...more
Apr 10, 2012 08:15am · see review
Victoria Strauss gave to: Dearly, Departed (Gone With the Respiration, #1) by Lia Habel (Goodreads Author)	My rating:
Sexy teenage zombies? Yeah, I was skeptical too. But in Dearly, Departed Lia Habel just about made me believe it. This is a fun adventure/romance with an intriguingly unusual take on the zombie theme. Yes, there's a zombie plague, with hordes of rave...more
Mar 30, 2012 08:06am · see review
Victoria Strauss gave to: Heartstone (Matthew Shardlake, #5) by C.J. Sansom	My rating:
I love C.J. Sansom's Matthew Shardlake Tudor mysteries, and this latest installment, which sets a story of murder, identity theft, ambition, and betrayal in the context of Henry VIII's disastrous final war with France, doesn't disappoint. Sansom has...more
Mar 08, 2012 08:41am · see review
Victoria Strauss gave to: The Way of Kings (The Stormlight Archive, #1) by Brandon Sanderson (Goodreads Author)	My rating:
I've gotten out of the habit of reading Fat Fantasy--the storylines/worlds/characters often seem too familiar, and it often feels like too much effort to trudge through hundreds of pages only to wind up a third of the way (or less) through the story....more
Jan 22, 2012 05:41pm · see review
Victoria Strauss gave to: The Ask and the Answer (Chaos Walking, #2) by Patrick Ness	My rating:
A riveting series that's among the best to come out of the YA dystopian trend. This dark, gripping and exciting saga of societal breakdown and civil war on a recently-colonized planet poses troubling moral questions and offers no easy answers, with a...more
Jan 02, 2012 10:43am · see review
Victoria Strauss gave to: The Knife of Never Letting Go (Chaos Walking, #1) by Patrick Ness	My rating:
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Victoria Strauss gave to: So Cold the River by Michael Koryta	My rating:
A supernatural thriller set in an obscure corner of Indiana, where mineral springs briefly (during Prohibition) supported a thriving casino and resort community. The plot is no great shakes--a troubled man with a latent psychic gift sees visions of a...more
Jan 01, 2012 09:03am · see review

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