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Guest Post: My Fantastical African Inspiration – Yurika Kotzé
Yurika Kotzé is a fantasy author and wildlife researcher. She loves history and combines the inspiration she gleans from living in Africa with medieval swords and water nymphs – because, well, why...
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World-Building: How Much Detail?
I’ve noticed a number of adult reviewers of my Wycaan Master series have been critical of my world-building, suggesting that I do not go deep enough or that the books are too fast-paced and that more...
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10 Questions For J.R.R. Tolkien
This blog post was inspired by a Time interview with Sir Ian McKellen, who plays Gandalf, the wizard who… if you are following this blog, you already know. It is a fascinating interview given that...
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The Gods Of Fantasy – repost
Over the three days of November 17 -19, Amazon.com have decided to promote the 2013 Winner of the Eric Hoffer Book Award for YA – At The Walls Of Galbrieth. The novel will be offered FREE in ebook...
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A Middle Earth Thanksgiving
A long, long time ago… King Aragon had this crazy idea. He had heard from one of his emissaries of a land far, far away, where they celebrated a festival in which a group arrives to a new world, are...
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Valentine’s Day – Epic Fantasy Style
What made the great world-builders of our time overlook such a special occasion? Was Valentine’s Day not celebrated in Middle Earth? Shanara? Odessiya? Where does Terry Brooks, R. A. Salvatore,...
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Will My Stories Be My Legacy?
This post is dedicated to a dear friend and poet, Al Levinson, who just passed away after a long struggle with cancer, refusing to compromise on his retirement dream as he traveled around America in...
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Rise of the Short Novel
I am a fast writer. I can have a 100k manuscript written in 100 days, but it is, to quote Anne Lamott, ‘a shitty first draft’. I then go through a three-month editing process before seeing to my...
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The Thanksgiving Story Tolkien Never Wrote
An old Thanksgiving post, but a loved one: During the later days of Middle Earth … King Aragorn was fascinated. One of his emissaries had just returned from a land far, far away, where they celebrated...
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Valentine’s Day – Epic Fantasy Style
What made the great authors and world-builders of our time overlook such a special occasion? Was Valentine’s Day not celebrated in Middle Earth? Shannara? Odessiya? Where does Terry Brooks, R. A....
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