10 Questions with The New York Times best-selling author Philip Athans (@PhilAthans)
This Author Spotlight features Phil Athans. Philip Athans is the founding partner of Athans & Associates Creative Consulting , and the New York Times best-selling author of Annihilation and a dozen other fantasy and horror books including The Guide to Writing Fantasy & Science Fiction and the recently-released The Haunting of Dragon’s Cliff and Tales From The Fathomless Abyss . Born in Rochester, New York he grew up in suburban Chicago, where he published the literary magazine Alternative Fiction & Poetry. His blog, Fantasy Author’s Handbook , is updated every Tuesday, and you can follow him on Twitter @PhilAthans . He makes his home in the foothills of the Washington Cascades, east of Seattle. 1. How did you get into writing? I don’t really even remember a time when I wasn’t writing. As soon as I learned to read and write, I started making little illustrated “books” out of folded pieces of paper. Only a very few have survived, and I shared on