by Joseph Malik | Feb 2, 2020 | General
Radcon this year is my busiest schedule at any con I’ve done, yet. As you can see below, several of these panels are geared toward me in particular, and several more are geared toward my particular areas of expertise as an author, adventurer, martial artist,...
by Joseph Malik | Jul 18, 2016 | Worldbuilding, Writing Craft
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...
by Joseph Malik | Nov 21, 2013 | Worldbuilding
I want to talk languages in fantasy. I should probably start this by saying that the language barrier is the single biggest problem with the portal fantasy genre. Every writer has to cough up a solution; it’s a rite of passage. Most solutions are simple...