Tag: fantasy
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The Guard of Mending Keep – An Excerpt from Jesse Teller’s Song
The serving boy’s face was stained green with disgust and horror. He looked about to be sick, about to flee, about to weep. Rayph saw the trembling lip and the panic in the eyes, and he knew what the boy was carrying. It was small, maybe a little over a foot wide, spherical, and covered…
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S.T. Sanchez, author of Sunwalker
When did you first consider yourself a writer? I didn’t consider myself a writer until I published my first book, but that is truly just a personal feeling. Holding a physical book in my hand with my name on it made it seem real. There is nothing like it. Why did you choose to write…
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Of Iron and Devils by B. H. Young
The Iron High Guard has stood as the enforcers of law for hundreds of years. They are the monsters at the gate that keep the devils at bay. On the morning that a raven arrives bringing news that a Province Steward has been murdered, Clint Godzton and his men are sent to investigate. What he…
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TV Binging and Conservatives Killing Literature…
Blurring the lines between fiction and reality (The Straits Times) Recently, I interviewed an imaginary character. This was Geronimo Stilton, journalist and author, who has penned more than 100 books for young children about his travels to ancient Egypt, the kingdom of fantasy, back in time, too many places to count. He is also a fictional…
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Festival of the Pale – An Excerpt from Jesse Teller’s Mestlven
The Pale, the goddess of death, fixed her rotting eyes squarely on the city of Mestlven where grew a darkness, patient and terrible. Her murder lifted from the battlefields of Corlene to swoop and brood on Mestlven’s roofs and scream at her citizens. Enormous crows, two feet tall with four-foot wingspans, terrorized the city and…
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K.S. Villoso, author of Jaeth’s Eye
Why did you choose to write in your particular field or genre? I love the scope and flexibility of epic fantasy. I love how it can encompass all sorts of themes that may be outdated or just won’t work in other genres: honor, duty, courage, and sacrifice. There is always this “larger-than-life” feel in epic…
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Sarah Buhrman, author of Too Wyrd
What is the biggest thing that people THINK they know about your subject/genre that isn’t so? If I tell people I write fantasy, they think my story is about dragons, unicorns, mages or barbarians. If I’m more specific and say I write Urban Fantasy, they assume it’s about vampires… or at least werewolves. And if…
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Running With Hummingbirds by Itzuintli
Tenochtitlan, capital of the Aztec Triple Alliance, still stands in 1810. For three-hundred years, their empire has survived conquistadors creeping through their jungles, plagues wasting through their streets, and black-robed missionaries denigrating every aspect of their society, their dreams, and their way-of-life, all for the sake of selling bibles. Thanks to Eagle-Warriors and Ocelot-Kin slipping…
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Micah Castle, author of The Stone Man and Other Tales
When and why did you begin writing? Books are something I’ve loved for a long time, the stories, the literature, the way the letters look on the page. That lead to me finally starting to write about three years ago. I’ve always wanted to write a book before I died, but I kept pushing it…
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Gates of Arcadia (The Arcadian Saga book 1) by S.A. Montagueo
Selian Corvus, an eighteen-year-old reluctantly living in a society built to destroy him, his hope, and all who combine their mental, physical, and spiritual energies to reshape the world around them. His morals are put to the test when one bad decision leads to the capture of his younger sister, Tahlia, the last thing remaining…
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