This week (and in future weeks) I thought it would be nice to bring you something a little different. As much as I love talking about my book, I appreciate you might want to hear about other things too. I’m thinking that chances are, you’re reading this blog because you like the fantasy genre in […]
If you are a Game of Thrones HBO series fan, and didn’t hear about recent ‘Red Wedding’ spoiler splashed all over the cover of the Metro, you must have been on Mars. Or perhaps more appropriately, lost somewhere in the Dothraki Sea. Let’s just say that the Rains of Castamere episode which will make you question everything…. […]
It occurred to me recently that one of the ingredients in a writer’s style is the way they see the story in their mind’s eye. Whatever point of view (first person, third person etc) they adopt focuses a reader’s attention on certain elements of the story, while turning it gaze away from other areas. In […]
There is something wonderful about fantasy novels in that they evoke a sense of ancient history, as though when turning the pages we rediscover a forgotten part of our world. In turn, these stories often refer back to even more ancient times, where the foundations of that world began and the seeds of the story were […]