Science Fiction and Fantasy Writer's Sourcebook

by David H. Borcherding (Editor)

Open this book and you'll open the gateway to the worlds of science fiction and fantasy. With this guide, you'll learn how to create better speculative fiction—and sell it.

Both a how-to-write manual and a where-to-sell directory, Science Fiction and Fantasy Writer's Sourcebook will help you infuse your work with strength and wonder, then submit it to your most promising markets.

Genres: Writing, Nonfiction, Reference

502 pages, Hardcover

First published September 1, 1996

About the author

David Borcherding is a Cincinnati writer and former editor for Writers Digest Books. He edited several books for WDB, including the Science Fiction & Fantasy Writers Marketplace and Sourcebook, and the Mystery Writer's Marketplace and Sourcebook. His essays and short fiction have appeared in anthologies such as Net Chick (Carla Sinclair, ed.) and the Cincinnati Writers Project Anthology 4: A Few Good Words (Woody O. Carsky-Wilson, ed.).

Reviews

[James]

A handy grab-bag of the benefit of others' experience in the titular area, on topics ranging from how to find an agent or get published to specific subgenres like near-future societies, graphic novels and comics, and plotting of novels vs. short stories.
If you are an aspiring or already-published SF or fantasy author, you would benefit from having this book handy.

[David]

This is my baby, my pride and joy. I edited this book when I worked at Writer's Digest Books, and I loved every minute and every page. The market listings are way out of date now, but the articles by great SF writers are still very good.