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I’m one of those proud nerds who loves looking at a map when I open a book. So when I created the world of Koleth, of course I wanted to include maps.
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I was reading this blog post, which asked, “what are your biggest writer woes?” One of my biggest– the one that’s currently got me beating my head against a wall– is what I like to think of as finding the right path up the mountain. Our Hero has made her grand journey across perils unnumbered,
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Two of your characters, who are the most bitter of enemies most of the time, unwittingly sit down and have a chat. Maybe they met up on Chat Roulette (is that even a thing anymore?), maybe they’re a superhero and supervillain who ran into each other out of costume. Whatever the case, at least one
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In case you hadn’t heard, Michelle Hauck and I are working together as freelance editors. Today I’m proud to announce that not one, but two of our clients just hit the shelves! Kyoko M. just came out with her first book, The Black Parade, an urban fantasy NA thriller with a holy twist. One bullet
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I was digging through some old notebooks this evening when I found a page of People Watching. You can’t ever hear enough about this: writers, artists, filmmakers– no matter what your brand of creativity, it’s imperative that you go out and actually look at people. I’m not talking about the standard stuff– you know, the
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I ended up doing a lot of research for yesterday’s post, and editing some of that out. One of the things I found was a list of women that you don’t really hear much about– not the wives of famous people, but women who held what I fondly think of as “non-traditional” careers. (Pulled from http://www.lkwdpl.org/wihohio/figures.htm)
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If you look at the majority of non-modern fantasy, be it medieval, pseudo-victorian, what have you, you’ll notice a pattern: everybody’s white and straight. If genderqueer or homosexuality is brought up, it’s with a heaping helping of homophobia and transphobia; if people of color are included, you can expect to see racism that would make
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It’s no secret that I’ve got a bit of a sore spot regarding certain elements in fiction: specifically, I’m frustrated by a glut of fiction featuring Tolkien’s Elves/Dwarves/Men, the standard Vampires/Werewolves civil war, the obsession with Norse and Greek mythology. It’s not that these elements are bad– not by a long shot. But I’ve seen
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I was just scrolling through my Reader on WordPress when I spotted this blog post, about a book called THE DREAM KEEPER, which involves a creature called a shifter. In case you haven’t heard, my WIP is tentatively called DREAMKEEPER, and features a race of people called shifters. There was a time when this coincidence
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Alex and Chris are running from the monster. Alex is pretty sure there’s a bit of their mutual friend, Pauline, on Chris’s shirt– possibly part of Pauline’s kidney– left over from their last narrow escape from the beast. Every breath comes in a gasp as they turn yet another corner, and they can hear the
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