
sffwrtcht: Future Guests 5/23 @hunterfaith 5/30 @thenewauthor 6/06 @samsykesswears 6/13 @pvbrett 6/20 @abrahamhanover 6/27 @leahpeterson #sffwrtcht (Thu May 17 00:58:08 +0000 2012)
sffwrtcht: Welcome to Science Fiction Fantasy Writer�s Chat. #sffwrtcht (Thu May 17 01:01:11 +0000 2012)
sffwrtcht: Our goal is to talk w/ writers, editors, & others abt the craft of writing, specifically related to writing speculative fiction. #sffwrtcht (Thu May 17 01:01:39 +0000 2012)
sffwrtcht: Our format is round table discussion. Please restrict ?s to writing craft, business of writing & the specific works of the guest. #sffwrtcht (Thu May 17 01:02:10 +0000 2012)
sffwrtcht: Please wait until your question gets answered to ask another & use the hashtag #sffwrtcht for all questions and comments. (Thu May 17 01:02:20 +0000 2012)
sffwrtcht: We may hold questions at times to allow our guest to answer and catch up. #sffwrtcht (Thu May 17 01:02:35 +0000 2012)
sffwrtcht: It�s up to the guest whether the question time will run longer than our allotted hour slot. #sffwrtcht (Thu May 17 01:02:37 +0000 2012)
mrsmica: RT @BryanThomasS: #sffwrtcht’s @mrsmica has an interview with author @NMSingel about her #writing, love of #starwars & more http://t … (Thu May 17 01:02:46 +0000 2012)
BryanThomasS: Tonight�s guest is so determined to beat @robertjsawyer�s new #sffwrtcht record, she�s employed robot clones to help answer. (Thu May 17 01:02:57 +0000 2012)
BryanThomasS: And she has set a record for the most Chrome tabs open at once in her office. #sffwrtcht 62 (Thu May 17 01:03:16 +0000 2012)
sffwrtcht: Born in San Diego, @gryphoness now lives with her hubby 2 parrots & 2 dogs in N. Calif & works as Lead Game Designer at Loot Drop #sffwrtcht (Thu May 17 01:03:38 +0000 2012)
BryanThomasS: She’s author of the Chaos Knight series from @Pyr_Books, Sword of Fire and Sea, followed by Lance of Earth and Sky in April 2012 #sffwrtcht (Thu May 17 01:04:08 +0000 2012)
BryanThomasS: Shield of Sea and Space will follow in 2013. #sffwrtcht (Thu May 17 01:04:17 +0000 2012)
BryanThomasS: Her video game crdts incl DragonRealms, Shadowbane: The Lost Kingdom, GoPets: Vacation Island, Kung Fu Panda World, FrontierVille #sffwrtcht (Thu May 17 01:04:46 +0000 2012)
BryanThomasS: She writes for the award-winning online zine The Escapist, & her fiction & poetry in Asimov�s, Electrc Veloc, Beneath Cslss Skies #sffwrtcht (Thu May 17 01:05:33 +0000 2012)
BryanThomasS: Erin�s games have won multiple awards and have been played by millions of kids and adults worldwide. #sffwrtcht (Thu May 17 01:05:43 +0000 2012)
BryanThomasS: She is multiethnic, with family names including Lee, Asakawa (yonsei), and Drake in addition to Hoffman. #sffwrtcht (Thu May 17 01:05:51 +0000 2012)
DarkMatterzine: #sffwrtcht what is working in a male dominated environment like for you? (Thu May 17 01:06:05 +0000 2012)
BryanThomasS: She can be found online at http://t.co/UwDzXB8s, on Twitter and on Facebook. Welcome to #sffwrtcht @gryphoness! (Thu May 17 01:06:36 +0000 2012)
BryanThomasS: @DarkMatterzine Please allow me to finish introducing and welcoming the guest first #sffwrtcht (Thu May 17 01:06:55 +0000 2012)
sffwrtcht: @gryphoness Where�d your interest in SFF come from? #sffwrtcht (Thu May 17 01:07:09 +0000 2012)
gryphoness: @DarkMatterzine A long subject.
gryphoness: Greek myths, & – hope you’re sitting down — a gryphon. Spec. the griffin on @PiersAnthony’s A Source of Magic, in local library. #sffwrtcht (Thu May 17 01:07:51 +0000 2012)
gryphoness: What’s funny about that griffin now that I think about it — name was Crombie — he was a transformed human, so also intelligent. #sffwrtcht (Thu May 17 01:08:00 +0000 2012)
BryanThomasS: @gryphoness Are gryphons normally dumb then? #knowslittleaboutgryphons #sffwrtcht (Thu May 17 01:08:25 +0000 2012)
sffwrtcht: Who were some of your favorite authors and books? #sffwrtcht (Thu May 17 01:08:36 +0000 2012)
PrinceJvstin: @gryphoness @PiersAnthony Why would I sit down? Griffins/Gryphons are awesome. But you knew I felt that way
gryphoness: @BryanThomasS Usually — good question though. Requires an analysis to know for sure. }:) #sffwrtcht (Thu May 17 01:10:01 +0000 2012)
gryphoness: @PrinceJvstin @PiersAnthony One of the faithful.
BryanThomasS: @gryphoness Well let’s just get some gryphons on #sffwrtcht chat and ask them then, darn it. There’s 1 named Thalnara lives here somewhere (Thu May 17 01:10:39 +0000 2012)
gryphoness: I read every Xanth book after Source, then the Adept books, Incarnations, etc. Moved then to Mercedes Lackey, Anne McCaffrey… #sffwrtcht (Thu May 17 01:10:59 +0000 2012)
gryphoness: McCaffrey had a huge influence on me both as a writer and a worldbuilder. Later, Philip K Dick, Ursula K LeGuin, Neal Stephenson. #sffwrtcht (Thu May 17 01:11:14 +0000 2012)
sffwrtcht: @gryphoness When did you develop an interest in writing and how did you pursue that? Classes? Workshops? Learn on your own? #sffwrtcht (Thu May 17 01:11:25 +0000 2012)
gryphoness: @someproducer He was awesome. Tested and transformed thru the book, too. #sffwrtcht (Thu May 17 01:11:37 +0000 2012)
gryphoness: Blurry because I wrote for ‘play’, as a kid and then online as a teenager. Formed an online writing group, where Andovar began. #sffwrtcht (Thu May 17 01:11:49 +0000 2012)
sffwrtcht: @gryphoness Were you involved in Cons or CoSplay as a kid? #sffwrtcht Anything besides collecting free AOL disks to get free internet? (Thu May 17 01:12:13 +0000 2012)
BryanThomasS: @gryphoness So does that mean you & the group are self taught? Learned as you went? #sffwrtcht (Thu May 17 01:12:39 +0000 2012)
gryphoness: Haha. Not at all. I don’t even think I knew what they were/that they existed. I ordered Valdemar filk CDs from a catalog, though. #sffwrtcht (Thu May 17 01:12:52 +0000 2012)
sffwrtcht: She confessed the AOL in her book FYI How long did you write before making your first sale? #sffwrtcht Did you start with shorts or novels? (Thu May 17 01:13:17 +0000 2012)
gryphoness: @BryanThomasS Yeah, very much. None of us were educated/studied. We wrote for fun purely. #sffwrtcht (Thu May 17 01:13:26 +0000 2012)
gryphoness: @BryanThomasS I should say tho that I read everything I could get my hands on… Marion Zimmer Bradley articles on writing, etc. #sffwrtcht (Thu May 17 01:14:25 +0000 2012)
gryphoness: Again blurry. I think 2yrs. I wrote literary fiction in HS, won some awards. First fantasy story to sale was 2yrs. Started short. #sffwrtcht (Thu May 17 01:14:41 +0000 2012)
gryphoness: But there was also huge volume of writing I did for my writing group in “ancient Andovar”, think it amounts to over 300,000 wds. #sffwrtcht (Thu May 17 01:14:51 +0000 2012)
gryphoness: I also wrote small bits for Pern fandom, & the character I played in DragonRealms. Very early fanfiction, zine type stuff, etc. #sffwrtcht (Thu May 17 01:14:59 +0000 2012)
BryanThomasS: @gryphoness What drew you to fantasy/epic fantasy, not sure where you�d classify this? #sffwrtcht (Thu May 17 01:15:40 +0000 2012)
BryanThomasS: @gryphoness Btw, I used to play Frontierville. #sffwrtcht (Thu May 17 01:16:03 +0000 2012)
gryphoness: Ahh, sub genre. I think it’s adventure fantasy. I set out to write “non-brick” fantasy, <300pgs, fast-paced w/epic sweep. #sffwrtcht (Thu May 17 01:16:28 +0000 2012)
gryphoness: I think ‘epic’ has come to mean “cast of thousands” (&1000s of pgs). I’ve very little interest in such books except academically. #sffwrtcht (Thu May 17 01:16:39 +0000 2012) Read the rest of this entry »













