Michael had some thinky thoughts for you last week, and started a post, but computer troubles are delaying his ability to complete it. The working title I saw was “The Cost of Everything,” and I took away from our discussion that it involves how to determine what anything might cost in your fantasy fictional setting, whether it be for literary […]
One of the things that used to drive me crazy was finding, or figuring out, believable prices for stuff. If you're a scifi/fantasy author, gamer, or game designer, you can probably sympathize. Whether it's the price of everything, or the prince of anything, historical price lists are hard to find, and when you do find one, its either based in […]
Let’s talk a little more about that “raven wing”. From the wiki: Raven Wing If you’ve read Dead Man’s Trigger, you already know how Raven got his name. If you were curious to know more about the device called the Raven Wing, including more about it’s war-time uses, please do click through to read up. It’s one of many wiki […]
It seems most writers go through periods where the words just won’t come, no matter what we do. So here we go. For your weekend: Is writer’s block real? Or is it not-real? That is the question. Some writers call this dull, dark time “writer’s block,” but others writers — more than you might suspect — think writer’s block is […]
“The universe of magic is a large place. It contains phenomena ranging from simple good luck charms to complicated systems of belief and practice such as astrology and alchemy, and it comes to us from prehistory, and from every part of the world, and it still flourishes today.” — Philip Pullman I haven’t yet read Philip Pullman’s His Dark Materials, but […]
Police Inspector Barbara Cole first appears in Raven's Tears and her story continues throughout the Raven & the Iris Series. In this series of shorts, which we're titling "Middle Class Life in Fernwall" we go back in time to Barbara's preparations to become a police detective, and take a peek at what middle class life looks like in Cascadia. It […]
This is not another post on how writers craft stories. I’d apologize, but my best estimate is that there are sixty-three hojillion posts about that on the internet right now, and a half-assed search engine is capable of turning every one of them up for you, listed however you please. What I wanted to write about this Monday morning is […]
This week, we learned that one installment in NBM Graphic Novels’ biography series “The Provocative Colette” has been made into a feature film starring Keira Knightly and is to premiere in theaters on September 21st. Congratulations to them and to Bleeker Street Media for bringing Sidonie-Gabrielle Colette’s story to a wider audience. Colette was considered scandalous to the establishment in her day, but […]
I don’t know how else to put this. If you didn’t know it, you may want or need to know it, so I’m just going to write it straight-up: Michael and I have found ourselves in uncertain times. We’ve spent most of 2018 dealing with the aftermath of his mother’s death and his father’s subsequent spasms of irrationality, followed by […]
For a long time now, we’ve been in the stupid position of having Raven’s Tears out of AMZN’s KDP Select service, while Dead Man’s Trigger remained IN the service, despite multiple attempts instructing AMZN NOT to renew its membership. Today, we gave up screaming at the impervious wall. Raven’s Tears has gone back up on KDP Select and both books are […]
