Codexians' Web Sites

Barbara A. Barnett blog Web site
Writing makes you do the wacky
Kennedy Brandt   Web site
Erin Cashier blog Web site
Ami  Chopine blog  
Ami is a collection of cells that cooperate enough to write. Other cooperative efforts include being a wife and mother, learning new things, and keeping a house and garden in mediocre condition. She is interested in basically everything, except business law... and maybe thumb tacks.
Ian Creasey   Web site
British writer Ian Creasey has sold forty-odd stories to various magazines and anthologies including Asimov's Science Fiction, Weird Tales, and Year's Best SF 12 (ed. Hartwell/Cramer).
Christina Crooks   Web site
Oliver Dale blog  
Oliver is a medical physicist in Tulsa, Oklahoma.
Aliette de Bodard blog Web site
Aliette de Bodard is a fantasy writer. When not writing, she is working as a Data and Image Processing Engineer. Her short fiction has appeared or is forthcoming in Interzone, in Writers of the Future XXIII and in Orson Scott Card's Intergalactic Medicine Show.
Robert Defendi   Web site
David Drake blog Web site
Rachel Dryden    
Spencer Ellsworth blog Web site
Spencer's blog and other stuff: kikiandsquishy.com Spencer's band: http://myspace.com/badmotelband
Patty  Esden blog  
Pat Esden can be found at her country store in northern Vermont designing with flowers and selling anything that holds still long enough to bring in cash. When no one’s buying, she is either cavorting with her husband and dogs or is in the attic working on her current writing project: a trilogy of contemporary YA novels set in Upstate New York.
Nora  Fleischer blog  
Nora Fleischer writes stories about love, animals, the past, dead people, and food, told by narrators you shouldn't trust. She's been published by Story House Coffee, among other places. You can hear her podcast novel, "Discovered Country; or, the Adventures of Rosemary the Librarian" at http://www.podiobooks.com/podiobooks/book.php?ID=78.
Tony Frazier blog  
Tony lives and works in Tulsa. His short story "Astromonkeys!" appeared in the debut issue of Jim Baen's Universe.
Sara Genge blog  
Dave Goldman    
Merrie Haskell blog Web site
Merrie Haskell lives in southeastern Michigan, where she studies information science by night, works in a library by day, and in the crepuscular moments, writes. She has sold fiction to Asimov's, Strange Horizons, Escape Pod, and other venues.
Elaine Isaak   Web site
The author of The Singer's Crown and The Eunuch's Heir, both from Eos Books. Visit the website to find out why you do not want to be her hero.
Jim Johnson blog Web site
Will write for food.
Vylar Kaftan   Web site
Vylar Kaftan writes short sf/f fiction and is a volunteer instructor for teenage writers.
Andrea Kail   Web site
Damn kids! Get off my lawn!!
Sara King blog Web site
I'm an Alaskan sci-fi/fantasy/horror writer currently represented by Don Maass of NY.
David Klecha blog Web site
Alethea Kontis blog Web site
One of the Founding Members of Codex, Alethea Kontis lives in Tennessee where she works as a buyer for Ingram Book Company, publisher of Nyx Books, a contributing editor to Apex Science Fiction and Horror Digest, and a freelance editor for Solaris Books UK. And she writes stuff too.
Jeremy Lewis blog Web site
Not so much what I have to say, but rather what has been said about my book: "A pedal-to-the-metal demolition derby of sex and violence. Werewolves and vampires were never so much fun." - Mario Acevedo, author of X-RATED BLOODSUCKERS.
Darja Malcolm-Clarke blog  
Ronya McCool blog  
Four-time car-alarm-bingo champion who decided to channel my abilities in a more constructive manner, like writing apocalyptic fiction. Actually, I guess the county judge decided, although I did get to choose the method.
Ruth Nestvold blog Web site
Over thirty stories sold, nominations for Sturgeon and Tiptree award, stories in several Year's Best anthos, including Gardner Dozois's YBSF.
Rick Novy   Web site
Rick writes fiction and non-fiction from his home in Arizona (it's a wry heat).
Tony Pi blog Web site
Writer, Linguist, Writers of the Future XXIII.
Cat Rambo blog Web site
CW 05 graduate with an MA in fiction writing from Johns Hopkins, Cat writes fiction, poetry, and essay.
Luc Reid blog Web site
Luc Reid is a Writers of the Future winner and the founder of Codex. His first book, Talk the Talk: Authentic Slang from 65 American Subcultures is recently out from Writer's Digest books, and has a Web site at http://www.subculturetalk.com.
Gray Rinehart blog Web site
Retired Air Force officer, currently a Contributing Editor for Baen Books and a staff writer for North Carolina State University. Works to support his writing habit. And his woodworking habit. And his guitar habit....
Scott M. Roberts blog Web site
Scott M. Roberts sees himself as a demon who feeds off dark butterflies of evil. Roberts is also a man who has done despicable things with a spoon.

You can find his lepidopteric exploits, along with descriptions of his many place-setting depravities, on his website, Lord Of All Fools
Matthew S. Rotundo blog  
Joan Savage blog  
Lawrence M. Schoen blog Web site
Lawrence is responsible for coming up with the name Codex. That is his sole contribution to this community of authors and he plans to keep milking it. So there.
Ken  Scholes blog Web site
Ken Scholes is a Northwest writer with stories appearing in various magazines and anthologies. His first novel, LAMENTATION, is forthcoming from Tor in January 2009. He is a winner of the Writers of the Future Contest and a member of the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America. He and his wife, Jen, live in Saint Helens, Oregon, just outside Portland.
Mike Shultz   Web site
Katherine Sparrow blog  
Jeff Stehman    
Isaac Stewart blog Web site
Isaac Stewart is a wild man from the Scottish highlands of Idaho. He dreams of the day when he can sit in his solar-powered yurt and write stories about things that never existed but should have.
Eric James Stone blog Web site
Eric longs for the day when he will have a great blurb, but that day has not yet come.
Sandra Tayler blog Web site
Erin Underwood blog  
Michael R Underwood blog  
I'm a graduate of the 2007 Clarion West workshop, and spend my non-writing time doing historical fencing, Argentine tango, and researching technoculture and media convergence.
Elle Van Hensbergen blog Web site
Ellen Van Hensbergen lives with her darling 10-year-old beastie, her beloved Mr. Man, and Heccupuss the cat in Austin, Texas. In 2003, she received that BS in Mechanical Engineering that she'd been wanting. In 2007, she attended the Odyssey Workshop. When she is not reading, she is often writing.
David Walton   Web site
Wendy Waring blog  
Wendy Waring's short fiction has appeared in Westerly, Tesseracts10 and Interzone.
Samantha Weiss blog  
Alex Wilson blog Web site
Writer and actor from northern Ohio and now based in Carrboro, NC. Work has appeared/will appear in Asimov's, Weird Tales, The Florida Review, ChiZine, Dragon, FutureQuake, and elsewhere.
Garrett Winn blog Web site
Just starting out in my career as a science fiction writer. I haven't written for years, but decided to submit for OSC's boot camp, and was accepted.
Julie Wright blog Web site
Julie Wright lives in Utah where she works her day job as an eBay investigator and spends the rest of her hours writing novels. look for her novels, My Not-So-Fairy-Tale Life, To Catch a Falling Star, and Loved Like That.
Caroline M. Yoachim blog Web site
Caroline M. Yoachim is a graduate of Clarion West (2006). Her fiction has appeared in Fantasy Magazine.

Fora and Discussion Groups

Codex forum

Speculations: The Rumor Mill

sff.net news groups: Groups for individual authors and publications as well as other topics relating to speculative fiction

Orson Scott Card's Hatrack writers' forum

Ellen Datlow's Nightshade Books forum


Market information

Ralan's Webstravaganza: A well-done, up-to-date market listing.

Submitting to the Black Hole: Substantial real-world data on how long various markets take to respond on submissions.

Engen's Science Fiction & Fantasy Market Engine: A search engine for sf and fantasy markets. Search on various criteria, such as story length


Informational resources

Grand Index of Writing Advice

Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America (SFWA)

SFWA articles on writing

Holly Lisle's "Forward Motion for Writers" page (recommended by Nadia Cornier)

SpecFicWorld (recommended by Elaine Isaak)

Online workshops

Critters Writers' Workshop: Arguably the preeminent open, online speculative fiction writers workshop