Sarah’s upcoming master workshops at Fyrecon events

Sarah A. Hoyt

Sarah A. Hoyt has published over 30 novels with various publishers (and one indie.) She’s also published over 100 short stories in magazines such as Asimov’s and Analog’s and various anthologies. She writes in science fiction, fantasy, mystery and historical fiction.

She enjoys teaching writing because she has yet to meet a hopeful who has made all the mistakes she made while learning: uphill both ways.

Fyrecon Master Workshop

Alternate History

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Fyrecon Master Workshop

Short Stories

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Deep Pink

Like all Private Detectives, Seamus Lebanon [Leb] Magis has often been told to go to Hell. He just never thought he’d actually have to go.
But when an old client asks him to investigate why Death Metal bands are dressing in pink – with butterfly mustache clips – and singing about puppies and kittens in a bad imitation of K-pop bands, Leb knows there’s something foul in the realm of music.

Monster Hunter Gaurdian

When Owen Pitt and the rest of the Monster Hunter International crew are called away to mount a month’s-long rescue mission in a monster-infested nightmare dimension, Julie Shackleford—Owen’s wife and descendant of MHI founder Bubba Shackleford—is left behind. Her task: hold down the fort and take care of her new baby son Ray. Julie’s devoted to the little guy, but the slow pace of office work and maternity leave are starting to get to her. But when a routine field call brings her face-to-face with an unspeakable evil calling itself Brother Death, she’ll get more excitement than she ever hoped for.

Uncharted (Arcane America Book 1)

A new world. New magic. New history.
After Halley’s Comet was destroyed in a magical battle in 1759, the backlash separated the entire New World from the Old in an event known as The Sundering. Now isolated from the rest of the globe, America has become a very different place, where magic works and history has been changed forever.

Trade Winds

Are there truly aliens among us? What do they really want? And what if our creations could come back in lethal form? Could we resist them? If there were a time police, would we know it? And really, why do people expect enlightenment from the stars? What if aliens needed us for their moral compass? You think our illegal immigration is bad? Wait till its coming from the stars? And what happens when the coin falls on edge? Can you reproduce it? Those not particularly moral aliens might set fiendish traps. And you can never go back again. Also, why would you want to?

So Little and So Light

From a parallel world where we have all the dreams of pulp writers, to a future where bioengineering kindles new hates and new heroes, to a different Tudor England, to the intricacies of time wars, this science fiction collection provides a glimpse of things undreamed... some from which we'll gladly waken, and some we'd very much like to be true.


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Alternate History

4 Hour Master Workshop for $79
(includes Whole Conference general admission to Fyrecon)
Class is limited to 18 students

Class Date
November 12, 2020, 2:00 PM to 6:00 PM Mountain Time
At Fyrecon four

We all know history can turn on a dime. In an author’s hands we can re-examine events if they had gone a different way. Sarah will cover how to figure out what points in history to alter and what aspects to leave intact as emotional touchstones.

Come prepared with your ideas and learn to put the concepts into practice.

  1. Create an alternate history that gladdens the heart of the fans of the genre: ie. hitting historical touchstones, while still changing history.
  2. Pick the best inflection points
  3. Designing a story that keeps the high points while changing everything.
  4. Exercise creating a broad outline of historical change and identifying the stories in it.

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Short Stories

8 Hour Master Workshop for $159
(includes Whole Conference general admission to Fyrecon)
Class is limited to 18 students

Class Date
November 13 & 14, 2020, 2:00 PM to 6:00 PM Mountain Time
At Fyrecon four

Short Story provides readers a view of a world in fewer words than a novel. This requires careful crafting and understanding the structure of a short story. Part of this is knowing what to include, hint at, or just leave out.

Day 1

  1. Brainstorming short story high concepts with teacher demonstration of turning high concepts into short stories ideas.
  2. Practicing turning your high concepts into short story ideas.
  3. Identifying different types of short stories including action, discovery, and emotive and how to lay out the general structure of each.
  4. Creating structures for your short story with group feedback

Day 2

  1. Learning how to hint at a larger world without weighing down your short stories.
  2. Practicing ways to hint at your world.
  3. Discussing how the first page’s promises build to the ending.
  4. Writing your short story’s first page.

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