by Joseph Malik | Aug 21, 2019 | Dragon's Trail, General, The New Magic, Worldbuilding, Writing Craft
“. . . 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.”
by Joseph Malik | Mar 22, 2019 | Dragon's Trail, General, The New Magic, Worldbuilding, Writing Craft
This is an extension of a post I made over at Mythic Scribes in which authors were asked to explain their magic systems in five bullet points. This was fun, in no small part because with the increased role of magic in, well, The New Magic, some readers have been...
by Joseph Malik | Jan 7, 2019 | General, Writing Craft
Written English is a different language from spoken English.
by Joseph Malik | Nov 13, 2018 | Dragon's Trail, General, The New Magic, Writing Craft
Hey, it’s been a while. I had the brilliant idea to start Book III right after releasing Book II, which gave me absolutely no time to do blog posts. The good news is that Book III sucked so bad in its first draft that I’m starting over with a blank page...
by Joseph Malik | Aug 27, 2018 | Dragon's Trail, General, In The Press, Writing Craft
So, wow, here we are. Dragon’s Trail just crossed the ten-thousand sales mark. We’ve known that this was coming. We were at ninety-six and change earlier this summer, and we started talking with people about sales numbers, and the Big Ten Thousand kept...
by Joseph Malik | Apr 5, 2018 | Dragon's Trail, General, The New Magic, Worldbuilding, Writing Craft
I want to touch back on POV and voice again, because the last installment on voice was something of a master class. I wanted to write a post that’s a bit more basic, for those of you who are just getting started on your writing journey. This post is an...
