HEIDI RUBY MILLER

CELEBRATIONS To celebrate 1,000,000 views and counting at www.heidirubymiller.com , I'm revisiting my most visited posts last year and... ...making my novel GREENSHIFT (From the World of Ambasadora) free on Amazon from Tuesday, January 28, 2020 until Saturday, February 1, 2020. Many thanks to my readers and fans who keep coming back after all these years and to those new to my little part of the universe (known around here as the Ambasadora-verse). There is lots to come in 2020, including new publications, appearances, and blog posts! Now to revisit: ARTICLE: New Pulp by Heidi Ruby Miller in The Writer My article "New Pulp" is in the July 2019 issue of The Writer magazine. It is based on a class I taught in Seton Hill University's Writing Popular Fiction MFA program and features quotes from Matt Betts , Maurice Broaddus , Christopher Paul Carey , Mike Chomko , John Edward Lawson , and Lee Murray about the resurgence of this popular fiction genre...

ARTICLES My article "The In-Betweeners: Bridging the Gap Between Middle Grade and YA" is in the January 2020 issue of The Writer magazine. It is based on a class I taught in Seton Hill University's Writing Popular Fiction MFA program and features quotes from Kathryn Miller Haines , Dr. Uwe Stender of TriadaUS Literary Agency , Nick Courage , and Stephanie Keyes . Here's an excerpt: Two years ago during the Writing Popular Fiction MFA winter residency at Seton Hill University, a discussion broke out amongst my students in a critique workshop geared toward young adult (YA) writers. They didn't think YA novels were really written for teens anymore, or at least early teens, yet most middle grade (MG) fiction felt as though it belonged more in the chapter book and younger reader category. Much of this concern was prompted by the idea that more adults wee now reading YA than teens were. Just look at the most recent Nielsen studies, which show that at least 80%...

ARTICLES My article "Pick Your Punk" is in the October 2019 issue of The Writer magazine. It is based on a class I taught in Seton Hill University's Writing Popular Fiction MFA program and features quotes from K. Ceres Wright and Shelley Adina about the qualities that make each punk special. Here's an excerpt: It all started when Greg Shaw used the term punk in the April 1971 issue of Rolling Stone . The movement may have been already building, but now it was a word , and as all writers know, words are power. Less than 10 years later, Bruce Bethke introduced a new version of that word to the literary scene with his 1980 short story "Cyberpunk." Said Bethke in the foreword to his story on the British website infinity plus , "In calling it that, I was actively trying to invent a new term that grokked the juxtaposition of punk attitudes and high technology. My reasons for doing so were purely selfish and market-driven: I wanted to give my stor...

ARTICLES My article "New Pulp" is in the July 2019 issue of The Writer magazine. It is based on a class I taught in Seton Hill University's Writing Popular Fiction MFA program and features quotes from Matt Betts , Maurice Broaddus , Christopher Paul Carey , Mike Chomko , John Edward Lawson , and Lee Murray about the resurgence of this popular fiction genre. Here's an excerpt: Pulp fiction is having a moment. And I don’t mean the Tarantino movie from the ‘90s – that was having a moment since Jules gave away his wallet. I’m talking about the adventure stories of old with those provocative covers and dime-store price tags that are enjoying a renaissance thanks to the subgenre “new pulp.” It’s clear that to understand new pulp, we need to know a little about “old” pulp. The term comes from the paper it was printed on – that cheap, thin stuff that began to disintegrate as soon as you cracked open the cover. Pulp was popular as magazines, novels, and novellas dur...

I'm so happy to announce that Many Genres, One Craft:Lessons in Writing Popular Fiction ( Headline Books, Inc. ) was named #5 in "10 of This Year's Terrific Writing Books" by The Writer Magazine in their December 2011 issue! Congratulations to my co-editor Michael A. Arznen and all the contributors for making this truly the only writing guide you'll ever need.

News The Writer (January 2010) In the January 2010 issue of The Writer , which is on stands now, Seton Hill mentor and Humanities Chair Michael A. Arnzen has an article about writing horror, something the four-time Bram Stoker Award winner certainly knows about, plus Seton Hill's WPF Program is featured in an article titled "10 MFA programs that offer a specialty focus" by Melissa Hart . And, mentor Randall Silvis , also an award-winner (Drue Heinz Literature Prize and three National Playwrights Showcase Awards) penned an article in this issue as well.

News The Writer September 2009 An ad for Seton Hill University's new MFA Program is in the September 2009 issue of The Writer , and I'm honored that my face is a part of it! ;) If you haven't heard about Seton Hill's switch from MA to MFA in Writing Popular Fiction , you can find out the details here: http://www.setonhill.edu/academics/fiction/index.cfm

NEWS I'm in the January 2009 issue of The Writer - actually my face is. A couple of months ago I did a photo shoot for a new ad campaign at Seton Hill University for their Writing Popular Fiction Graduate Program , and the ads are now making their way into magazines. If you're a member of RWA , there's a black and white version of the ad in this month's Romance Writers Report too.