Building worlds and selling them. Working fantasy authors on collaboration, output, marketing, and the realities of a long career in the genre.
fantasy fictionA magic system with no rules is just a plot convenience; a kingdom with no economy has no stakes; a culture with no history is a theme park. World building is the foundation everything else stands on, not set dressing.…
Character DevelopmentEvery other genre borrows the real world; fantasy builds its world from nothing, which means you are always doing two jobs at once, telling the story and constructing the place it happens. Most fantasy novels die where those jobs collide.…
Book CoachingI have spent forty-five years writing one fantasy series, Peacekeeper, longer than I have done almost anything else. It taught me more about world-building and magic systems than any craft book could. Here is what nearly half a century inside…
fantasy fictionI own all fifteen White Wolf limited editions of the Eternal Champion, and Moorcock justified every dollar: a multiverse so interconnected that reading it feels like grasping a cosmology instead of finishing a series. You jump between Elric, Corum, and…
Author TalksBonnie Dillabough joins Author Talks to discuss publishing her first book at 64, building a sci-fi series, and why no author is an island.
collaborationFantasy author Mercedes Lackey on writing 136 books, collaborating with Anne McCaffrey and Andre Norton, building battle scenes and bird characters, and the hard economics of the writing life.
Book MarketingFantasy author Suzanna Linton on her Stories of Loss series, building a brand around your name, the book marketing that actually works, and the discipline of full-time writing.
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