Writer Tina Hunter

Female Leads in Science Fiction Novels

In a discussion with book reviewer Shaun Duke on Twitter, he made an interesting comment. He said that he couldn’t think of any lead female characters in Science Fiction books. When I tried to respond right away I realized all the books that were coming to my mind were more Fantasy or Speculative than true [...]
World Building with a Magic 8 Ball

So perhaps I wasn’t as ready to start a new novel as I thought, but I needed to do something while I wait to see what happens to my novel “Ice Debt” (see this post – update 7). But I was stuck. I love building worlds but it wasn’t coming to me this time. I [...]
Chinese Whisperings Promo

Just wanted to give you all a quick update on the the anthology that holds my 5th published short story. It was going to be released on December 1 2009, but due to unforeseen events and deadlines the release date has been pushed back to January 1 2009. I’d rather the editors and owners do [...]
The 4 Year Plan

4 years ago, on August 23 2006, I started blogging. It was a way of telling the universe that I was committed to writing – for real this time. I started on blogger, and you can read from the beginning up until August 2008 (when I moved to WordPress) @ http://dustandstrangerthings.blogspot.com/ – but only until [...]
10 Research Resources for Fiction Writers

Research for fiction writers seems to be coming up a lot lately. Whether you look at Write Anything’s recent guest post by Justyn Rowe, or Krista D. Ball’s series called ‘A Nibble of History’ people are talking about it… and the general feeling I’m getting is that a lot writers aren’t doing it properly. I [...]

Audioboo – Spoken Word Story

Tuesday, July 6, 2010 View Comments

Hello world. Long time no chat. What better way to start off a come back (1: Yes I’m married now, 2: no I won’t be changing my name, 3: no, I do love my husband I just like Hunter, 4: keep it up and I will come over there) than by offering something for free. [...]

Can I Have 28 hour days, please?

Thursday, April 8, 2010 View Comments

I woke this morning to two realizations. One: I haven’t posted anything on my blog in well over a month, and Two: I have an unreasonable urge to write. The remedy to number one is of course to post something, but number two is a little more complicated since for the first time in a [...]

Games and Nonsense

Wednesday, February 3, 2010 View Comments

So I’ve been taking part in a few laughable activities over the last few days. First a quiz. QUIZ: Which science fiction writer are you? I am: Ursula K. LeGuin Perhaps the most admired writing talent in the science fiction field. I’m actually really flattered by this quiz result. Ursula K. Le Guin has published [...]

The 4 Year Plan

Wednesday, January 6, 2010 View Comments

4 years ago, on August 23 2006, I started blogging. It was a way of telling the universe that I was committed to writing – for real this time. I started on blogger, and you can read from the beginning up until August 2008 (when I moved to WordPress) @ http://dustandstrangerthings.blogspot.com/ – but only until [...]

Season’s Greetings

Monday, December 21, 2009 View Comments

Well the count down has begun. A little over three days until Christmas eve and whether you celebrate the day or not we all have a few vacation days coming up in advance of the new year. Just wanted to take this moment to wish you all a wonderful end of the year. Pre-Xmas Updates:

NaNoWriMo: I WON!!!

Tuesday, December 1, 2009 View Comments

So if you’ve been reading along, you know that on Thursday, November 24, I re-decided to win NaNoWriMo. And when I posted my re-decision on November 26, I had to write 25,000 words (half of the monthly total) in 5 days. Now to prove my ineptitude at keeping to a daily schedule I’ve posted my [...]