San Diego Comicon 2013 Report
Liz Fellshot Ambrose
As everyone probably already knows, Comicon landed on the city of San Diego like the usual ton of bricks. All traffic slowed to a crawl in the vicinity of the…
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Writing Food
Michael R. Underwood
Everybody eats. And in many cases, eating scenes can be a great way to liven up your fiction. It’s easy to write a conversation that becomes nothing more than a…
The Chaotic Champion – Part Six: The Protector Hero
Nyki Blatchley
The town of Tombstone is in turmoil. The countryside around is ruled by bandits, and ranchers who are little better, and the small group of men who stand between the…
Is Urban Fantasy The Next Genre Neanderthal?
Eric Christensen
In a recent post on the-toast.com, Ginger Clark, a literary agent at Curtis Brown, Ltd., remarked: It is much harder to sell a new urban fantasy series now that it…
Kingkiller Chronicles TV Series – Confirmed!
Overlord
As if reading about Joe Abercrombie trying his hand at a trilogy for younger readers wasn’t exciting enough, Deadline has today announced that 20th Century Fox (you know, those big…
Joe Abercrombie To Write a YA
Hey guys, got some awesome and surprising news for you: Joe Abercrombie is writing a YA in the vein of Twilight! Well, actually, no…that’s a lie. But he is writing…
Monthly Short Story Winner: Magic
Jennie Ivins
Welcome back to our monthly writing contest winner’s post. This month our contest participants wrote stories about one of the most common themes in fantasy: magic. There were a lot…
Tactical vs. Tactile: Writing Fantasy Battles
Aaron Miles
Like many people who read fantasy novels, one of the reasons I love the genre is because it contains epic battles with vast armies fighting it out. Whether it’s more…
Monthly Short Story Winner: Time Travel
It’s time again to reveal the winner of our monthly short story contest. Each month we pick a theme and ask our members to write a story based on that…
Fantastical Creatures of Greco-Roman Mythology: The Vrykolakas
Faith M. Boughan
In exploring a number of lesser-known creatures from Greco-Roman mythology, we’ve seen how some of the modern monsters we’ve come to know and love originated in ancient myth and folklore.…
Rats and Cats in Fantasy
Victoria Hooper
Two animals that have, throughout history, built up a lot of superstition concerning them are rats and cats. So it’s not surprising that these creatures also pop up a lot…
The Broken Empire Trilogy: The Allure of Jorg
The following is a guest post I wrote last year for Harper Voyager on the allure of Mark Lawrence’s protagonist Jorg Ancrath. Although most of my references were to the…