Vernon: Steam Punk Capital of the World

Originally posted on Okanagan Okanogan:
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…

Book Review: The Chains that Bind by Sarah Buhrman

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 […]

Gunsmoke & Dragonfire Kickstarter Launch

YAY! 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 either ebook, paperback or hardcover, sometimes both.

And keep your eye open for special limited-availability rewards throughout the month! For the first ten days, we are offering exclusive Writers’ Services packages from our authors! You don’t want to miss out on this!

Wyrd West Telethon: C.L. Cannon on Fantasy & Making a Small Press from Indie Publishing

Pre-order and support my Kickstarter! There’s only 1 day left to get in on it!

Interviews for the Once Upon a Time in the Wyrd West “Telethon!”

To 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 […]

Successful Worldbuilding in SFF Mashups

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 […]

Science Fiction & Fantasy Mashups

Science 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 […]

Diane Morrison

Speculative Fiction Writer

January 2020

Urban Fantasy