“Action, humor, and intrigue . . . James Bond in tarnished armor.”
“Fantasy with a twist . . . executed with verve and intelligence.”
“[Dragon’s Trail] features immersive detail and hold-your-breath battle scenes.”
On Process: Using the Force, or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Type with my Eyes Closed
It's been a while since I've posted to this blog. Quite a bit has happened since WorldCon, most of it on the writing side of things. What I mean by that is that I've been writing like crazy, which doesn't leave me a lot of time for blog posts. The first and foremost...
After-Action Report: WorldCon 2019
“. . . within four hours of announcing that I’d engineered sexual violence out of my worldbuilding—that I’d used it in Dragon’s Trail to show the difference in societies but I’ll never use it again—Dragon’s Trail sold every paperback copy that we’d brought.”
“Hard fantasy, written with great attention paid to every last detail . . . effortless and finely written. The world-building is extremely well done and so realistic that I was able to easily fall into this world and enjoy every minute.”
Forever Lost in Literature
Upcoming Events:
Sept. 25, 2019: Guest Appearance: Hugo House, 1634 11th Ave, Seattle, WA 98122 8 PM. Master class and Q&A on completing first drafts. https://hugohouse.org/store/class/roughing-it-write-a-rough-draft-of-your-book-in-six-weeks-rebecca-agiewich twitter.com/@hugohouse
About the Author
In addition to fiction, Joseph Malik writes and lectures on advanced intelligence theory and asymmetric warfare for the U.S. military. He has worked as a stuntman, a high-rise window washer, a freelance writer, a computational linguist, a touring rock musician, and a soldier in the United States Special Operations Command.
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