He worked for many years as a journalist, writing on a wide range of topics from science to justice reform, and now serves as director of communications for a think tank in New York City. Rob Wolf is the author of The Alternate Universe and The Escape.

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If the agent that you have is not working out and your styles just do not work and you're not getting what you need from that relationship then you need to find an agent that works.' And if you have a partner who doesn't support what you do, then maybe you should look at a different partner. If your family doesn't support what you do then maybe don't see them as much. You want to be a CEO, you want to open your own business, you want to be a writer you need to surround yourself with people who support what you are doing. While writing is a solitary affair, Hurley has surrounded herself with a circle of supporters-and advises everyone to do the same. You have to work very hard, and I think that's very motivating for me to know I have to work very hard just to stay in the game.' If your last book doesn't sell, then you're not going to sell other work. As she says in her New Books in Science Fiction and Fantasy interview, 'You're only as good as your last book. Hurley rallied, finding a new agent and a new publisher, but the path wasn't easy. But it took patience and lots of hard work (including multiple revisions) for the story about mirror worlds on the brink of genocidal war to emerge.Īlthough her first book was a success, the other two books in the series, Infidel and Rapture, were hurt by the financial troubles of the publisher. Hurley has lived with some of the concepts and characters in her newest novel, The Mirror Empire (Angry Robot, 2014) since she was 12. And although her tweets haven't won awards (yet), she is also an animated and articulate presence on Twitter.

Her essay 'We Have Always Fought'-about the history of women in conflict-was the first blog post ever to win a Hugo Award. Bounds Award for Best Newcomer and the Kitschy Award for Best Debut Novel. Her first novel, God's War, earned her the Sydney J. Kameron Hurley has been honored for her mastery of numerous forms.

The Mirror Empire by Kameron Hurley