A common question authors get asked is “Which of your characters are most like you?” If you’re a smart author, you would’ve probably tried to avoid making a character TOO much like you and relied on your talent and skill to come up with some great, original characters (or, if you’re smarter, you would’ve used …
I realized half an hour ago that I’ve been a bad friend because I promised Quen I would make this since she doesn’t drink and she was pregnant at the time, and I never did. So here we go. *reads recipe* Wait, whatddya mean I have to wait one fucking hour for tea to cool? FUCK …
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I‘ve written very few characters with the dynamic chemistry of Tali and Khine; taking the classic Princess and Thief trope for a spin, much of their interactions have less to do with class differences and what sets them apart, and more of what they–one a royal, the other a criminal–have in common. In a tale of …
The worldbuilding in the epic fantasy world of Agos-agan, which is the world of both Annals of the Bitch Queen and The Agartes Epilogues, is heavily inspired by my own culture. And one of the things I wanted to write about is the matriarchal flavour of many of the societies in it, which sets them …
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Something I realized recently: a lifetime is not long enough for me to read all the books in the world. The TBR pile is an interesting phenomenon in today’s climate; with the rise of e-books and free or massively discounted novels, I’ve seen people say their stack has risen upwards to thousands. Thousands of books, …
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