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

Brian knew from high school that he wanted to write epic fantasy for a living. He started college in 2004 at Brigham Young University. While his major was English, he put all his efforts and studies into both the process and the business of creative writing. He was mentored by Brandon Sanderson, taking Brandon's class on writing science fiction and fantasy a number of times.

In 2006, Brian attended Orson Scott Card's Literary Bootcamp. The Bootcamp gave him variety and direction, teaching him valuable skills to use with his writing.

Promise of Blood, his first novel, sold along with two unfinished sequels at auction in 2012 to Orbit Books. It is a second world epic fantasy set in the Napoleonic time period when the age of kings is abruptly brought to its end by revolution. Revolution brings war, and with it rumblings that gods of old -- long thought myth by modern man -- have returned to lands they once called their own.

Promise of Blood is set to debut from Orbit Books in April of 2013.