For Writers by Hugh Howey

Tips for writers from Hugh Howey, as shared on his blog.

Canada Under Attack: Where Shadows Walk

Meet Liam Kelso, a 6'1" junior in high school and parkour enthusiast who is an honors student playing on the varsity basketball team with sandy brown hair flashing green eyes and a ready smile. He's also a survivor of three deadly waves of attacks on the planet that has wiped out billions of people. Now, instead of...

Warbreaker

After bursting onto the fantasy scene with his acclaimed debut novel, Elantris, and following up with his blockbuster Mistborn trilogy, Brandon Sanderson proves again that he is today’s leading master of what Tolkien called “secondary creation,” the invention of whole worlds, complete with magics and myths all their o...

Chains of a Dark Goddess

Betrayed by friends and abandoned by his goddess... Back from the dead and hellbent on saving his beloved. Knight Champion Breskaro Varenni served the bright goddess Seshalla every day of his life, questing for her relics and crusading against her enemies. He was a hero and a legend, the greatest knight of the age. B...

Wrath of the White Tigress

An eFestival of Words Winner for Best Villain. He thought he was a hero. She showed him the truth. Now he'll do anything to stop the man who made him a monster. For twenty years Jaska Bavadi faithfully served the Palymfar Order and its Grandmaster, the powerful wizard Salahn. Until an encounter with Zyrella Anthari, l...

Sensitive to the Light Immortal Bloodlines I

This is a story about Vampires. Vampires who don’t go all sparkly in the sun and wouldn’t be caught dead munching on your neighbours bunny... They’ll just eat your neighbour - but they have a problem. Actually they have several. Fext, ‘King’ of the Seven Vampire Houses has been missing for almost thirt...

Faethfully Yours: Unbound

My name is Charlotte O'Dean, and I am a Faerie. I didn't always know I was a Fae. I once thought myself as a human girl, with human problems. That was all a lie. The reality is that I am the daughter of the Unseelie king. It is that king--my father--that holds my soul mate prisoner as lure for me…so that when he traps...

Inamorata

Nightingale is human - or would be, had it not been for the manner of her creation. Genetically engineered and grown to adulthood in a lab, she was created, not born. Why? For the sole purpose of the entertainment of rich men as one of the many Inamoratas in the bordello business . Beautiful, elegant, a superb dancer...

Merlin's Gold

(Historical Fiction / Adventure) Treachery and intrigue, adventure, action and romance are at the fore in this tale set around the legends of Arthur and Merlin. The court of King Arthur is under threat from Hengist's Saxons who, lured by the promise of gold and land, surge out from the Saxon Shore to wreak hav...

The Visitor

My entry for Round One of the UWS Club's Writing Challenge. Cover by the amazing @Shattered_Violet

Paladin

Sam is the most promising swordsman among this year’s crop of Paladin trainees...and knows it. Brash, cocky, and unbeatable with a sword (well, almost), Sam is the kingdom of Thule’s best hope against the violence wrought by demons. The only problem is that Sam is really Lady Samantha, daughter of the seventeenth Duke...