Is Fantasy for Gardeners?
Stephen Deas
At some convention in the distant past on some panel about something or other, someone once asked me whether I was an architect or a gardener. I had really no…
Stephen Deas
The Villain with a Thousand Faces (Part Two): The One-Line Backstory
About the author: Her Holiness the Dragon Queen Zafir, Speaker of the Nine Realms, has played both pro- and antagonist roles in her career as a fictional character. She is…
The Villain With A Thousand Faces – Part One: Cardboard Cut-Outs
About The Author: Her Holiness the Dragon Queen Zafir, Speaker of the Nine Realms, has played both pro- and antagonist roles in her career as a fictional character. She is…
John Hornor Jacobs Interview
John Hornor Jacobs, author of Southern Gods and The Twelve-Fingered Boy, recently debuted the first book in his first fantasy series, The Incorruptibles. In-between his busy release, con attendances, and…
Have we made Dragons and Demons too cute and cuddly?
To celebrate the release of Stephen Deas’s The Dragon Queen coming to paperback, we have for you today a very cool article on the emasculation of dragons in contemporary fantasy…
I Don’t Need No Women In My Fantasy
My Twitter stream regularly expresses a variety of opinion on the treatment of women, or of people of colour or unconventional sexuality, in genre fiction. This is, I presume to…
Authors, Reviews and Commenting
Most of the advice I’ve seen for authors is not to read reviews, although by no means all. I’m going to disagree and say it’s a useful practice but you’d…
NaNoWriMo Type Along with Stephen Deas – The Finish
Follow along as Stephen Daes shares his week by week experience doing NaNoWriMo. If you missed Stephen’s intro article, you can read it here. If you missed any of the…
NaNoWriMo Type Along with Stephen Deas – Week Four
Follow along as Stephen Daes shares his week by week experience doing NaNoWriMo. If you missed Stephen’s intro article, you can read it here. If you missed any of the…
NaNoWriMo Type Along with Stephen Deas – Week Three
Follow along as Stephen Daes shares his week by week experience doing NaNoWriMo. If you missed Stephen’s intro article, you can read it here. If you missed week one, you…
NaNoWriMo Type Along with Stephen Deas – Week Two
Follow along as Stephen Daes shares his week by week experience doing NaNoWriMo. If you missed Stephen’s intro article, you can read it here. If you missed week one, you…
NaNoWriMo Type Along with Stephen Deas – Week One
Follow along as Stephen Daes shares his week by week experience doing NaNoWriMo. If you missed Stephen’s intro article, you can read it here. November 1st Wordcount Target: 0 Words…