Live Class: How To Make Your Setting A Character

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Whether your story is set on a space station 3,000 years in the future or in Suburbs, USA, The Present, it’s got to be set somewhere–and a vivid world is one of the fastest ways to gain (and keep) a reader’s attention.

Whether you’re writing fantasy, sci fi, speculative, historical–or even women’s fiction or mystery–the world is vital to making your book come alive.

With editor Sarah Guan, we’ll cover the most significant elements of making your world work–knowing if you’re getting rejected because of your world, and what to do about it–and making your story the most vivid, memorable piece it can be, hopefully sticking in an agent’s mind long after she closes her computer that night.

A replay will be available for 30 days after the event.

Sarah Guan was the Publisher of the speculative fiction house Erewhon Books and have been nominated for multiple Hugo Awards for Best Editor. I came to Erewhon after a varied career at Ace, DAW, and Orbit, and have worked with acclaimed authors such as C. L. Polk, winner of the World Fantasy and finalist for Canada Reads and the Locus, Nebula and Ignyte Awards; Cassandra Khaw, USA Today bestselling author and finalist for the Locus and British Fantasy Awards; Fonda Lee, winner of the World Fantasy and Aurora Awards and finalist for the Nebula, Locus, and Oregon Book Awards; Tasha Suri, winner of the British Fantasy Award for Best Newcomer and finalist for the Locus and Astounding Awards; Tade Thompson, winner of the Arthur C. Clarke Award, the Kitschies Golden Tentacle Award, and the African Speculative Fiction Society’s inaugural Nommo Award; Kacen Callender, winner of the World Fantasy, Stonewall, Lambda Literary and National Book Awards; and many more.