Chats & Events
Join Kim Falconer at BYRON BAY WRITERS FESTIVAL 2011
It's confirmed! I'm doing a workshop on Bad
Boys: Writing Dark Heroes to Die For!
The dark hero appears in all forms of fiction from Beauty and the Beast to Bram Stoker’s Dracula. These shadowy characters take the form of Margaret Mitchell’s Scarlet O’Hara, Jeff Lindsay’s Dexter Morgan, Charlaine Harris’s Eric Northman, Mary Shelley’s Victor Frankenstein, Fyodor Dostoyevsky’s Prince Myshkin and LJ Smith’s Damon Salvatore.
What they all have in common is a particular kind of erotic charisma, and readers develop a passion for them that keeps the pages turning. Writing dark heroes takes a special touch, one that author Kim Falconer has explored over the years in her research and her latest six science fantasy novels. The workshop will be divided into two sections:
Part 1) Understanding dark heroes and making them real: Definitions and examples. Heroes, anti-heroes, villains and the erotic . Nature vs. nurture: motivation, goals, beliefs, fears, love and wish fulfilment. What makes dark heroes tick, and what it is about them we fall for? The dark hero’s journey and their flaw.
Part 2) Evoking passion in the reader through dark heroes. Exercises to bring dark heroes to life, explored through dialog, relationship to other characters, POV, risk, danger, and transformation—bringing dark heroes to light or letting them down hard: when it works and when it doesn’t.
Be ready to write with on the spot flash fiction, character building exercise and writing from random words. Light, fun and insightful!
Monday August 1, 9.30am - 12.30pm
SCU room, Byron Community Centre, 69 Jonson St. $60/$50 Book Now!Kim Falconer is a speculative fiction author with two series out through HarperCollins Voyager Worldwide. She lives and writes in Byron Bay. Kim will be also be speaking at the Byron Bay Writer's Festival August 5-7th.
Galaxy Bookshop Signing December 4th
I'm at Galaxy Bookshop with Traci Harding on the 4th of December for a chat and signing! Love to see you all there!
Come celebrate Traci's latest release " Universe Parallel" due 1st Dec 2010 and and Kim's latest "Path of the Stray" in stores now!
Don't miss the opportunity to chat to these awesome authors and get your books signed!
Please rsvp either on FaceBook or email triciab@galaxybooks.com.au so I can see approx numbers :)
Sneak peak into Universe Parallel:
Excerpts from Kim's new series:
Hope to see you all there :)
As part of celebrating the Aus /NZ launch of Helen Lowe's The Heir of Night, I'm contributing to a series of guest posts with fellow F-SF authors. “Loving Humanity – Why SpecFic Rocks!”
Friday 8: Alan Baxter(AU: Dark Fantasy)
Saturday 9: Nicole Murphy (AU: Paranormal Urban Fantasy)
Monday 11: Mary Victoria(NZ: Epic Fantasy)
Wednesday 13: Kim Falconer (AU: Epic Science Fantasy)
Thursday 14: Tracey O’Hara(AU: Paranormal Urban Fantasy)
Friday 15: Marianne de Pierres (AU: Science Fiction)
Saturday 16: Michael Pryor (AU: Fantasy YA)
Sunday 17: Tim Jones (NZ: Science Fiction, Fantasy)
Monday 18: Juliet Marillier(AU: Historical Fantasy)
Wednesday 20: Anne Hamilton (AU: Junior Fantasy)
Thursday 21: Julie Czerneda (CAN: Science Fiction, Fantasy. Although Canadian, Julie has lots of F-SF links to NZ, including being Guest of Honour at the National SFFANZ Convention last year.)
Saturday 23: Gillian Polack (AU: Fantasy)
Sunday 24: James Norcliffe (NZ: Junior/YA Fantasy)
I hope you will support the F-SF series and these authors, who have very generously given their time and support to me and the launch of The Heir of Night.
Blood Honey Sex Magic
Transcripts from Aug 10, 2010
Join us on 10th August at 8pm (zone +10) when we're chatting with Kim Falconer. The topic of the evening? "Blood Sugar Sex Magic: Sex and the SF Fantasy writer" Hope to see you here!
If you think writing sex is simply a matter of describing an image from the Kama Sutra and adding ‘oh yeah, do it to me baby!’ this chat is for you. Unless writing pornography, sex scenes spark contradictory attitudes, values and beliefs.They show who the characters are behind closed doors. Sex can be playful, dangerous, erotic and transformative. It can also carry tones of anger, resentment and revenge.
Writing sex is not about anatomy and physiology, though it helps to have a working knowledge there. Whether good, bad, fast, slow, human, paranormal or bestial, sex is an intense and intimate experience that reveals deeper levels of personality as well as cultural and social paradigms.Come join the team at FANGtastic Books on August 10, 8 pm, when Kim Falconer gets down and dirty on a topic often overlooked and easily misunderstood in both genre and literary fiction.
August 10, 2010 Zone +10 @ FANGtasic Fiction Chat Room
Join Kim Falconer at THE BYRON BAY WRITERS FESTIVAL
6-8 AUGUST 2010
WORKSHOPS FROM 2 AUGUSWe’re delighted to introduce you to the complete range of marquee sessions, book launches, workshops, foodie and feature events that make up our 2010 celebration of writing and ideas, the fourteenth Byron Bay Writers Festival . Kim Falconer is appearing in the following events:
Tuesday 3rd of August 9.30am-12.30pm SCU Room Workshop;
Cast the spell: finding magic in immersionThursday 5th of August 1:30pm-02:15pm MACQUARIE MARQUEE
Strange attractors: writing fantasy fictionFriday 6th of August 2.30pm- 4.00pm MACQUARIE MARQUEE
Bodice ripping: writing sex and intimacySaturday 7th of August 4.00pm- 5.00pm BLUE MARQUEE
Fantastical and magical: expanding the conventional worldSunday 8th of August 2.30pm- 3..30pm MACQUARIE MARQUEE
Keeping the faith: are writers influenced by the market?New Interviews
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