Hatrack River Writers Workshop Hosted by Kathleen Dalton Woodbury • Introduction • Enter the Forum Write to Kathleen Dalton Woodbury Former Boot Campers Success Stories • Chris Todd Miller • Jessi Cole Jackson • Brian McClellan • Ty Franck • 2008 Bootcamp • S.D. Smith • John Brown • Brad Beaulieu • Jamie Ford • Judson Roberts • Danielle Friedman • Scott Andrews • Christine Amsden • Patricia Esden • Rick Novy • Aliette de Bodard • Alethea Kontis • Mary Robinette Kowal • Scott Roberts • Mette Harrison • Eric James Stone • James Maxey • Luc Reid • Douglas Cohen Links of Interest • OSC urges writers to look at this LA Times interview with mystery writer Robert Crais Says OSC: "Crais, one of my favorite writers, has come quite independently to many of the same conclusions I've reached - and which I've taught in my writing workshops for years. It's nice to have an independent source for the ideas! Besides, Crais is an outstanding writer who deserves to be listened to for his own sake." • Parker column: A writer teaches writing • Garrison Keillor's Excellent Advice about MFA Programs • Want a critique of your manuscript from a published author? Mette Ivie Harrison has been praised as one of the finest writers of fantasy and YA literature working today - and she has taught writing workshops with OSC • Bernard Cornwell shares OSC's emphasis on story, letting the author's voice take care of itself. (Thanks to Scott Roberts for pointing this out.) • Comments on Uncle Orson’s Literary Boot Camp • Hatrack Utility Belt • Tor Submissions Guidelines • Using invented language in speculative fiction

A former child actress, Chemistry major, and Orson Scott Card Boot Camper (class of 2003), New York Times bestselling author and self-proclaimed Genre Chick Alethea Kontis's first foray into the literary world was a mixed-up picture book-AlphaOops: The Day Z Went First. (The sequel, AlphaOops: H is for Halloween, will be published in 2009.)

In 2005, she co-edited the critically acclaimed SF all-star Elemental: New Stories of Science Fiction and Fantasy for Tor Books. She also penned the Sherrilyn Kenyon Dark-Hunter Companion (St. Martin's Press). Her short stories have appeared in Realms of Fantasy, Orson Scott Card's Intergalactic Medicine Show, and featured in Apex Online (http://www.apexdigest.com/online.shtml). Beauty and Dynamite, a collection of her published and unpublished essays (featuring cameos by various authors and editors you know and love), will be released in January 2008.

Alethea lives in Tennessee, where she works as a buyer for Ingram Book Company, a contributing editor for Apex Science Fiction and Horror Digest, and a freelance editor for Solaris Books UK. Find out more about Alethea's plans for world domination on her website: www.aletheakontis.com.