Book CoachingFebruary 10, 2026
I 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 FictionFebruary 10, 2026
I 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…
Alternate HistoryFebruary 10, 2026
What if there were parallel worlds where everything went differently? Seductive, and a trap. The multiverse is the most powerful idea in fiction and the easiest to wreck, because anything is possible is an excuse to avoid the choices that…
EntertainmentFebruary 10, 2026
In 1969 I saved for months to buy the big red Lord of the Rings, and my parents bet I would never finish it. I read it twice back to back, and it rewired how I understood story. Fifty-five years…
Amazon & KDPFebruary 9, 2026
Science fiction hands you more freedom than any genre: invent worlds, technologies, even physics, then watch what they do to the people inside them. That freedom is also the trap, since a world without discipline collapses into noise. Here is…
Creative WritingNovember 18, 2025
20 exercises building worlds through economic logic, cultural collision, environmental consequence, and the human behavior extraordinary circumstances produce.
Fiction WritingOctober 19, 2025
Explore red dwarf stars - the most abundant yet mysterious stellar objects in our galaxy. Learn how these dim, long-lived stars could host life.
Creative WritingApril 20, 2025
20 exercises covering magic systems with costs, political structures with consequences, and worldbuilding that feels inhabited rather than invented.
Book ReviewsOctober 13, 2024
A categorized bank of SF-flavored language across the subgenres, handy for breaking out of stock phrasing. The catch is sharper in SF: generic shared phrasing works against the original, world-specific vocabulary that distinguishes strong science fiction, and it teaches no…
Book ReviewsOctober 13, 2024
A science reference for hard-SF writers, supplying the astronomy and planetary science to construct physically plausible worlds that hold up for scientifically literate readers. Solid on the principle that in hard SF plausibility is part of the contract, though narrow,…
Book ReviewsOctober 13, 2024
One of the best books on building a believable alien, by a physicist and longtime Analog editor. Its method, reasoning a creature outward from its world so every feature has a cause, has aged better than most craft references. The…
Book ReviewsOctober 13, 2024
A worldbuilding guide that works on the craft side instead of the encyclopedia side: how to make a world vivid, memorable, and woven into character, theme, and plot. A solid corrective to worlds that are flat or over-stuffed, built on…
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