One of the most vexing things about fantasy writers is . . . a lot of them seem to think that one form of religion is better than another. This is deeply interleaved with Celtophilia and I am Celtophilephobic (tho' a fair number are also, of course, Christians slipping their religion in as "the best"), but too many fantasy writers seem to think ( Read more... )

As I continue to toy around with the Revolutionary Boy Martin concept, I decided to become more educated on YA literature front. (What is it about me? I only seem to do research on things I hate? The Bible, Twilight . . . someday I'm going to research something I love and I'll be confused.) Since a movie is being made about it, I decided to ( Read more... )

Terry Pratchett is now a knight. He was awarded the OBE for his services to literature on the same list with Robert Plant . . . but Plant is a huge fantasy head, anyway, so it's cool all around, innit ( Read more... )

Now, a unpublished or barely published novelist is expected to write books that are 100,000 words long. However, once you're successful, you're expected to write quarter million word tomes. So, recently, I've been thinking about how to change a book from a hundred thousand words to three times that length. What I've ended up identifying are, ( Read more... )

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