This post starts out with a memory, because one of the first books I truly loved was recommended by my mom. At the library as a child, she told me to read Anna To The Infinite Power by Mildred Ames, and I was hooked. The book at that point was older, and she’d seen the …
As writers, we’re often plagued by the blank page. The blank page can be a friend or a foe, inviting you to come and set down your dreams and sketches or taunting you with the vast emptiness of it all. It’s both and neither at various times in your project life. It feels easy when …
Every once in a while I’ll get the question, why do I write science fiction and fantasy? The answer is: because I liked explaining my problems by saying a wizard did it. But that’s not the whole of the answer, it’s just the shortest one. Really, I started writing science fiction at a time when …
Recently, I had the chance to record a live class for my chapter of Sisters in Crime. This is my first time teaching a class online, and a writing class. I’ve taught group classes before, mostly in photography, so this was a real treat. I’m passionate about the art of telling a story, and I …
Hello! This is my first post and I thought I’d start out with an introduction. I’m EM Beck, and I write genre fiction, which is science fiction and fantasy most of the time. You can head over to my bio if you want to know all the official and regular things about me, or my …