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Release the Wyrd West!
Hey 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!Novel Excerpt: A Game of the Forever Throne
#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 ThroneQuest for Fire
#30days30authors #amwritingfantasy Excellent article by Cindy Tomamichel reminding those of us who write fantasy or historical fiction that central heating and range stoves just weren’t a thing for our ancestors, and making fire wasn’t as easy as flipping a switch. Reading is easy. We sit in a comfortable chair, perhaps by a warm heater with cat […]
Read More Quest for FireBook Review: Chasing Fireflies
#30days30authors Chasing Fireflies: A Summer Romance Anthology by C.L. Cannon My rating: 5 of 5 stars Just to be transparent, I am one of the authors of this work. I wrote the last story that appears, Eye of the Storm, and my review does not apply to my story, because that would be ridiculous. But […]
Read More Book Review: Chasing FirefliesThe Road to Fantasy is Paved with Facts
Originally posted on Traveling Light:
(This is the first of four “themed” posts about research for fantasy novelists.) I don’t really give “Writing Advice”. Oh, sure – I have my opinions, and since I’ve managed to produce two novels and a memoir, I have just enough experience and success to think that, perhaps, I do…
Appearing in SciFan Magazine for July!
I’m excited to announce that an excerpt of Showdown (Wyrd West Chronicles #1) will be appearing in July’s issue of SciFan Magazine, a magazine that publishes strictly science fantasy and LitRPG. And next month, they’ll be publishing Survivor, a story in the Toy Soldier Saga! Check it out! Want to get all of my work […]
Read More Appearing in SciFan Magazine for July!What is Grimdark Fiction?
By C.T. Philips Grimdark is in the eye of the beholder. On a more simpler term, grimdark is a term which was initially bandied about by the gaming community of science-fiction and fantasy as an insult for books which were “trying too hard to be taken seriously.” The term originally comes from the over-the-top hardcore […]
Read More What is Grimdark Fiction?The Invention of Boredom
What is Science Fantasy?
I’m delighted to announce that an except from Showdown will be featured in July’s issue of SciFan Magazine, and the entirety of my Toy Soldier story, Survivor, will be featured in the August issue! And yes guys, you can get these in PRINT! SciFan Magazine is a publication devoted to “science fantasy” as a genre. […]
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