I didn’t write this article, but I could have! By Ricardo Victoria I was planning to write this post a while ago, but work got in the middle (it still does, but I just ignored it for a bit). Then, that dastardly Leo McBride got his take out first at his blog Altered Instinct *shakes fist*. I recommend […]
Read More What Playing D&D Taught Me About WritingBy Dan Koboldt It’s hard to put a number on how many books I’ve read that feature characters in the woods. Sometimes they’re fleeing, sometimes chasing, sometimes just looking for something to eat. As someone who spends a lot of time in the woods, I should tell you that most authors get it wrong. Here […]
Read More 10 Things Writers Don’t Know About the WoodsThis article is part of the Science in Sci-fi, Fact in Fantasy blog series. Each week, we tackle one of the scientific or technological concepts pervasive in sci-fi (space travel, genetic engineering, artificial intelligence, etc.) with input from an expert. Read the full article at Dan Koboldt.
Read More Poisons in SFF#specwomenchat I’ll be posting some of my favourite quotes from great writers of #SFF from time to time on my blog.
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Visit me at the Virtual Fantasy Con Sunday, Oct. 9 !! https://www.facebook.com/events/518395788285240/?active_tab=posts I’ve been having some conversations with writers about writing fight scenes, and I thought it might be a good idea to put some information out there. A lot of writers write fight scenes that are, to be honest,…
Flashing Swords! #4: Barbarians and Black Magicians by Lin Carter My rating: 5 of 5 stars Read for the High Fantasy Reading Challenge and the Genre Non-Fiction Reading Challenge. This is an outstanding collection of some of the best in classic sword and sorcery writing! I had heard of all of these fine fantasy writers, […]
Read More Book Review: Flashing Swords! #4, edited by Lin CarterBy Rachel Hartman #30days30authors I grew up in the Middle Ages. Well, not the Middle Ages exactly, but in Kentucky, which is close, and with a father who believed that if you didn’t have garden soil under your nails, you just weren’t working hard enough. We lived in the middle of town, but he was […]
Read More The Medieval Agricultural YearHey gang! Just letting you all know that the third book in the Wyrd West, The Vigil, is alive! It’s about twice the length of the first one, so the series is a full novel’s read now. And now that there’s three, Amazon has even given me my own series page! Remember you can Pay […]
Read More Release the Wyrd West!#30days30authors I’m presenting a panel at the Virtual Fantasy Con #VFC2017 this October on “Realism in Fantasy Warfare.” It’s a stick in my craw that a lot of fantasy writers, especially writers of high fantasy, do not give enough consideration to the battles and wars that their characters are embroiled in. If you’re going to […]
Read More Novel Excerpt: A Game of the Forever Throne
