Foxglove Copse is out today!
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Remember when I wrote a really long fantasy novel, set in 18th Century Wallachia and the Ottoman Empire, and then it was accepted for publication by Anglerfish Press, and they decided it was uneconomical to produce in one volume because it was over 400 pages long? So they produced it in two volumes – Sons…
Unhappy Hipsters. This one is particularly speaking to me today: http://unhappyhipsters.com/post/356249598/it-was-unclear-how-her-life-had-become-so-riddled
I’ve always been weird. I remember my parents being concerned because I dressed so much like a boy. “Don’t you want to look attractive?” they would say, and I would think “Why on Earth would I want to look attractive? I don’t want to attract anybody.” At university, I was briefly locked in a rivalry…
Hurray! The Mysterious (the anthology in which ‘The Wages of Sin’ appears) is now official, as it’s just been added to MLR Press’s ‘coming soon’ page: Upcoming Releases Due out October the 10th 2009 And Hidden Conflict (the anthology in which ‘Blessed Isle’ appears) has had its release date brought forward to Veterans Day/Remembrance Sunday, …
I was about to say that other than cleaning up my own mental act, I hadn’t done very much this year. But then the aforesaid mental cleaning kicked in and said ‘hold on there. Yes you have. Don’t put yourself down like that.’ So in obedience to my new determination to be slightly less horrible…
As with so many things, the germ of your worldbuilding is already present in the initial big idea. At least for me, the setting turns up as part of the inspiration. The big idea comes as a Hero Role A and Hero role B [do something] in [somewhere exotic]. So, a berserker and a bard…