March books: 5/5 (The Deck of Omens) Happy Wednesday, squiders. I have managed to drag myself away from BTS’s 2.0 music video to write you today’s blog post. Like many avid readers, I have more books than I may ever
Shannara Readthrough: Armageddon’s Children
March Books: 4/5? (Armageddon’s Children, obviously) Howdy, squiders. How’s life? If you’re new around here, or even if you’re not, here’s a quick recap. The Wishsong of Shannara was the book that introduced me to epic fantasy back when I
Is Secondary World Fantasy Dead?
Hey, squiders, hope March is treating you well! As part of my SkillShare class on interconnected short stories, I did some market research in order to show my students what they might do with the stories after they’ve written them.
Shannara Readthrough: Angel Fire East
August books: Still 3/6 (also in the middle of 3, because I am a mess) (Also as a note, I read the last book in this a year ago. May need to speed things up a bit.) If you’re new
Delving In
Evening, squiders. Last week, with your lovely help (it’s amazing what I can work through as I write things out here on the blog), I decided to leave off the World’s Edge revision until the critique marathon is over and
I Have Survived
Happy…uh, Wednesday, squiders! I have survived the second weekend of the leadership training I was helping lead (though there were many tears, and I’ve picked up some sort of respiratory illness). I will still need to help and guide my
Hooray for Emotional Trauma
Happy Tuesday, squiders! It’s still been hard to move out of the mindset of the leadership training and move on to other things, but I have started rolling on the revision for World’s Edge. I spent some time on Saturday
Oho! (Related to the Shannara Readthrough)
Evening, squiders. Why is summer so hot? Ugh. I’ve been reading through Terry Brooks’s Sometimes the Magic Works, which is part writing how-to and part memoir, for the past two months. It was written in 2003, and is one of
Shannara Readthrough: A Knight of the Word
Howdy, squiders. Hope you’re doing well. I’ve finally finished the next book in my Shannara readthrough (I read the last book–technically the first book chronologically–in spring of 2022. Making excellent progress, she says sarcastically.) and thought we should probably talk
OMG SPFBO
Howdy howdy, squiders! How are you? The big news of the week is SPFBO (Self Published Fantasy Blog Off), which is a year-long competition. 300 fantasy books go in, 10 finalists are selected, and 1 book wins (and some of
