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

Ty Franck's first novel, Leviathan Wakes, written under the pen name James S.A. Corey was published in the summer of 2011 by Orbit. Leviathan Wakes was a Locus Magazine Trade Paperback bestseller for two months in a row following its release, and has been listed by Amazon as one of the ten best science fiction or fantasy novels of 2011. The sequel, Caliban's War, will be published in the summer of 2012, to be followed by a third book in 2013. He has a second contract in the works with Orbit that will keep him writing novels and novellas for most of the decade.

Franck says, "Scott Card's Bootcamp taught me how to write and receive literary criticism. And that skill is directly responsible for the success I've had so far. It enabled me to join a professional writer's group and hold my own in critiquing sessions with half a dozen established writers. And this in turn led to polishing my writing, acquiring an agent, and selling my first three novels. I'll always be grateful to the Bootcamp and the skillset I learned there."