Writer’s Corner has a good article on How to Find Interesting Words and Names for Your Fantasy Writing. The article covers the following points: Keep a small notebook of interesting names and words Maps are an excellent resource Dictionaries and encyclopedias Foreign languages Add a glossary to your novel Hearing… Read More »Create Unique Words and Names When Writing Fantasy
A new edition of George R.R. Martin’s A Song of Ice and Fire series is being released in France with new cover art. Marc Simonetti is the artist. The four covers depict: Castle Black (A Game of Thrones), Tyrion and King’s Landing (A Clash of Kings), hunting the Stark children… Read More »A Song of Ice and Fire New Cover Art
Lloyd Alexander was one of the first fantasy authors I can remember reading. Actually, the Prydain Cycle was the series that really got me hooked on the genre. I was in sixth grade and someone handed me The Book of Three (the first book in the series). I need to… Read More »Lloyd Alexander and Welsh Mythology
I started working on my novel again this week. It’s the first time I’ve written something new in months. I’m re-writing the first scene entirely, and this is what I have so far (always subject to change, of course): **** He knows the truth. Cobus held the parchment next to… Read More »Novel Update – Excerpt Included
A Feast for Crows by George R.R. Martin Paperback: 784 pages Publisher: Bantam (October 30, 2007), *hardcover edition published November of 2005 ISBN-10: 0553582038 I finally got around to finishing A Feast for Crows (AFFC). I had read about 700 pages of the 1,000 page saga months ago, anticipating the… Read More »Review of A Feast for Crows by George R.R. Martin
1. What inspired you to write the story of Bran Hambric? I was awake on the night of 3/3/03, thinking about a different story, when for some strange reason, the image of Bran Hambric and a banker sitting on a roof leapt into my mind. I knew they were waiting… Read More »Interview with Kaleb Nation, Author of Bran Hambric
Bran Hambric: The Farfield Curse by Kaleb Nation Hardcover: 464 pages Publisher: Sourcebooks Jabberwocky (September 2009) ISBN-10: 1402218575 No gnomes. No mages. Etcetera. Such is the motto of the city of Dunce, a calm and peaceful city that takes great pride in ridding its streets of all forms of magic.… Read More »Review of Bran Hambric: The Farfield Curse by Kaleb Nation
Based on an article in the New Yorker, the following seven fantasy novels are essential books for the novice, literary adult reader: The Dragonbone Chair by Tad Williams Anything by Guy Gavriel Kay, but particularly Tigana, The Lions of Al-Rassan, Sailing to Sarantium, and The Fionavar Tapestry (a trilogy that… Read More »Seven Essential Fantasy Reads
The finalists have been announced. Categories include novels, novellas, short stories, anthologies, collections, and artists. Finalists in the Novel category include: The House of the Stag, Kage Baker (Tor) The Shadow Year, Jeffrey Ford (Morrow) The Graveyard Book, Neil Gaiman (HarperCollins; Bloomsbury) Pandemonium, Daryl Gregory (Del Rey) Tender Morsels, Margo… Read More »2009 World Fantasy Award Nominees