Wherefore Elves
So, we were talking elves over on Mythic Scribes. Talk of elves always brings up talk of cliches. Cliches fuel fantasy, particularly the pulp fantasy market. It is possible — and apparently lucrative — to take a bunch of fantasy cliches, and hammer them...Fair Folk, Greek Literature, and the Plight of the Modern Cunning Linguist
Touching back on language, today, because I found some old beat sheets and dialogue excerpts in my Boxes O’ Worldbuilding a few days ago. And because any day, now, my editor is going to run into the Faerie during the line edit and I’m very likely going to...The Map Redux
Lots of compliments on the map. So let’s talk maps a bit more. Part of making a good fantasy map is developing the terrain well enough that you can draw it from memory a couple of times freehand and have them more or less line up. I have a couple of advantages,...Memory Lane
Holy crap. So, I’m sending the finished — no, really — manuscript out to my editor next week. The cover is in the final formatting stages. I have a marketing plan and budget in place. And yesterday I started working on Book II. Sort of. Book II was...The Map
The map of the world where Dragon’s Trail and subsequent books take place.