March 14, 2022 Author Decisions and Adaptation: Should Shifting Sands have been Cinderella? Oops, it’s been a while since I wrote a blog. Time keeps moving so quickly! If you’re signed up to my newsletter (and why…
November 23, 2021 Fantasy Tropes – The Mentor It’s been a long time since I talked about fantasy tropes! So much of my life revolves around research right now – and my…
September 15, 2021 Worldbuilding Fantasy: Shifting Sands as a Case Study I can’t believe it’s only two days until the next wave of Shifting Sands arrives. If you need to catch-up, make sure to do…
February 15, 2021 Writing Magic – Types, Rules, and Consequences This week, I played around with writing outside of my usual fantasy genre. I wrote the first chapter of a romantic comedy for a…
November 16, 2020 Creating Fantasy Book Covers As I move ever closer to releasing Shifting Sands into the world, I’ve had to move into dealing with some of the details that…
October 5, 2020 Writing Resources – Worldbuilding There’s nothing I love more than seeing how other people do the things I do. Like writing. Do they start with a character and…
September 28, 2020 Fantasy Tropes – The Chosen One The last couple of posts have been quite focused on my research side so, for this week, I thought I’d continue talking about fantasy…
September 14, 2020 Fantasy and Familiarity I’ve been thinking a lot about the fantasy genre in the past couple of weeks. I mean, I think about it a lot generally…
