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Steam punk is a branch of writing and art (especially jewelry and sculpture, romantic novels and visual poetry) that recombines materials from the age of steam and iron, and sets them in the contemporary world of petroleum and electrons. Here’s what http://www.steampunk.com has to say about all that: Take place…
The Chains That Bind by Sarah Buhrman My rating: 5 of 5 stars I’ve long been a fan of the Runespells series, which I’m sure everyone knows by now. I happened to get in on the ground floor just after the first volume, Too Wyrd, came out. This one is the best yet! I sat down to read this […]
Read More Book Review: The Chains that Bind by Sarah BuhrmanYAY! We’re launching our Kickstarter! Check out the video on my YouTube channel at the link below. Or check out the link to the campaign HERE! We could really use your support, and we have some absolutely amazing unique items for our Backers in addition to the book! Every level offers you the book in […]
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Read More Wyrd West Telethon: C.L. Cannon on Fantasy & Making a Small Press from Indie PublishingTo celebrate my Kickstarter for the Wyrd West Chronicles, I’m doing a series of livestreamed interviews with people who are doing similar stuff to what I’m doing in Once Upon a Time in the Wyrd West! These interviews will appear on Kickstarter Live and will be simultaneously streamed to my Facebook Author Page, then uploaded […]
Read More Interviews for the Once Upon a Time in the Wyrd West “Telethon!”Science fiction and fantasy mashups are popular right now. They give us an excuse to abandon typical SFF tropes for elements we’re familiar with in other genre fiction. Here’s some tips and tricks for successful plotting and worldbuilding in a mashup genre: Familiarize Yourself with the Blended Genre Okay, so you’re writing a space opera […]
Read More Successful Worldbuilding in SFF MashupsScience fiction and fantasy, in my experience, are rarely all one thing. Sometimes – often! – SFF blends elements of other genres of fiction into it. For instance, I think just about every Philip K. Dick novel I’ve read is either transgressive fiction or a detective/crime novel. Sometimes those elements seem so weird that not […]
Read More Science Fiction & Fantasy MashupsThe Dark Tower by Stephen King My rating: 5 of 5 stars Read for the 12 Awards in 12 Months Challenge, the Apocalypse Now! Reading Challenge, the High Fantasy Reading Challenge, and the Read the Sequel Reading Challenge. This novel won the Derleth Award in 2005. The conclusion of the Dark Tower series is probably […]
Read More Book Review: The Dark Tower by Stephen KingThe Drawing of the Three by Stephen King My rating: 5 of 5 stars Read (again) for the Apocalypse Now! Reading Challenge, the Author! Author! Reading Challenge, the Need to Reread Challenge, and the Read the Sequel Challenge. This is the second book in the awesome Dark Tower series. If you tried The Gunslinger and […]
Read More Book Review: The Drawing of the ThreeFluffy Bunny by Sarah Buhrman My rating: 5 of 5 stars I received an Advanced Reading Copy in exchange for a fair review. I enjoyed Too Wyrd, the first book in this series, thoroughly (see my review here) so I couldn’t wait to get my hands on book 2. I think it’s fair to say I was primed to enjoy […]
Read More Book Review: Fluffy Bunny by Sarah Buhrman
