Feeling the loss of author Dave Wolverton-Farland

Next week I’m attending a business of being a sci-fi and fantasy author conference, the Superstars Writing Seminar, which was founded by five authors. One of whom was best-selling author Dave Wolverton, who wrote fantasy as Dave Farland, known for Runelords. He passed a couple of weeks ago at the age of 64.

He was a teacher of writing spec fic, which led to his sharing his experiences with upcoming writers like myself. I followed his blog for years after meeting him—learning from him—at my first Superstars.

He often wrote and spoke an being productive, the importance of writing everyday. He was the lead judge of the Writers of the Future Contest, a contest he won in the 1980s, which helped helped springboard his career.

He knew writing and had a generosity of spirit in sharing what he had learned along the watay—and recognizing and cultivating talent in writers who wanted to get published, share their stories… but not just any stories. He wanted people’s unique stories, twists that made stories different from any others, stories that evoke emotions, involve the senses. Dave wrote a number of books on writing, too.

Those books, the lives he touched, the writers like myself who learned from him, and his fiction are the legacy he’ll be remembered for. Dave, you’ll be missed.

In other news, on the giveaway front this month Apocalypse Knot, prequel to Bigfoot is Not Your Friend, appears in Sci-Fi & Fantasy Pulp Fiction.

Dare to Believe.

D.H.