How you are going to build your story's fantasy world?

You have your story, your plot, your characters, sub-texts and themes. On a piece, or several, of paper you have sketched out a map, worked out the travel distances and know how long it will take the heroes to cover that distance. You’ve spent a bit of time making sure you know the types of weapons and armour appropriate to your setting and buildings the people live in. In fact you’ve gone further; you know how they cooked their food and styled their hair. You’re ready. Get t

While I finish another round of edits of Silencing of the North, I thought I'd post a few little quotes from A Good Day to Die which comes out on 27th November - just to get the ball rolling with a little flavour of the book.

Rawlins — thief, murderer, outcast— has been left to die by the friends he once trusted and he is going to make them regret it.

It is good to keep an eye on the market and how it varies.

So, I spoke about my school DnD group in the last post. They've played DnD and Star Trek now - completing adventures/missions in both....

A Map of the Six Kingdoms, plus some information about the books set there!

Tonight is (was, if you're reading this later) Roll20 Dungeons and Dragons. We've on ongoing campaign set in the Lost Lands and are...

Phew... and I mean that. The first draft of A Good Day to Die was done a few weeks ago and now the second, tidy up and check for...

Straight off, I am not speaking from a point of view of success. I wish it were not so, but there it is. However, I do my best to use...

It is that time of month again when I’ve got to try and trawl through my memory of fantasy books past and present in order to come up...

Right about now I am edging towards the end of Draft 1 of Corin #3. By that I mean, I’m passed 70K of words and I know how the book ends…...

You’re used to your heroes full of muscle, swords drawn, shields raised or magic staff held before them, facing the oncoming hordes. A...

Does length matter? Is it important to you? If it was shorter than you thought or were used to, would you really mind that much? Surely...

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When I got the message asking me to donate a book to raise money for charity, I jumped at it. I wasn’t convinced that having my book...

If there were ever a perfect author to tackle these ten questions it would be Mr Ben Galley. At the forefront, riding the first wave and...

Today we welcome Timandra Whitecastle, author of Touch of Iron, and entrant in the current #SPFBO. Bibliotropic has already reviewed the...

Today, we welcome James (Jim) Cormier to the Ten Quick Questions. Jim entered SPFBO #1 like me, and 298 others, with his book Exile. You...

Two books written and Michael R Miller stops by to answer the ten quick questions. With GRRM and Star Wars making an appearance it should...