August 8, 2016August 12, 2016Characters, Fantasy, Geeky Stuff, Science Fiction Taking Characters Out for Coffee An idea popped into my head the other day as I was driving home. Most of us have been asked the following […]
July 4, 2016Fantasy The Silmarillion Awards Voting, Phase 2 The first round of voting for the Silmarillion Awards has drawn to a close, and what a round it was for those […]
June 20, 2016June 20, 2016Fantasy Announcing the Silmarillion Awards Welcome to the first ever Silmarillion Awards! What are the Silmarillion Awards, you ask? Here’s an overview written up by Jenelle Schmidt, […]
June 2, 2016Characters, Fantasy, Speculative Fiction If Lord of the Rings Characters Had Modern Names What’s in a name? More than you might think. Pick a book you’re familiar with, change the character names, and it suddenly […]
February 24, 2016Characters, Fantasy, Geeky Stuff, Science Fiction, Speculative Fiction A Letter to Spec-Fic Characters Today I’m going to be sentimental. Perhaps emotional. Definitely personal. Characters are the lifeblood of any story. Everything else—plot, setting, theme—is the […]