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
Stories into worlds From small things do bigger things grow — cubs into lions, acorns into oaks, ideas into stories, then collections of stories and then worlds. Some time ago…Continue readingSuperheroes, Third Class, arise…
One of the perennial questions posed to authors by fans and interviewers is the fabled “Where do you get your ideas?” I too often answer with a snarky quip…”Off the…Continue readingHow do you write a book?