World Building 101: Writing the familiar … For works of fiction set in familiar worlds, the ones in which the reader already lives and is accustomed to, world building is…Continue readingLiving in a world you created
I just, JUST, had a new novel come out – “The Second Star”, now doing the rounds in Paperback, eBook and Audiobook editions and garnering reader responses and reviews that…Continue readingNew Book, New World, New Language
META L: Worldbuilding 101: Three approaches to create your own worlds. You can make experimental trips on all of them, or take a sharp right into virgin woods and bushwhack…Continue readingThree Ways to Build a World
I was weaned on poetry. My grandfather was a poet and he was reading me his sonnets before I was fully five years old. On one memorable occasion, I interrupted…Continue readingHow poetry became part of my soul
One of my lush historical fantasies, ‘Empress’, is rooted in Byzantium – which is something tightly woven with the whole vexed “write what you know” question because I grew up as…Continue readingWho is allowed to tell humanity’s stories?
Writing School In the beginning, the author created… When I first began writing historical fantasy, I was inspired by times and places rooted in our own familiar world – but…Continue readingHow to build a world, word by word