Yes, I'm still doing this. 24 to go, bitches. Then I'll read my own book last, and declare, without any hint of bias, that it was clearly the best. You know, because. Well that took a long time. No knock on the quality of the book, I’ve just withered as a reader, and now find …
Tag: Fantasy
Reading my SPFBO Cohort #3 & #4
Two more interesting books in my anonymous SPFBO 8 read every page review series. #3 This struck me as a book I would have wanted to write when I was in my teens, except in my teens I would have been utterly incapable of doing so! There are lots of references to epic past events …
SPFBO 8
It is happening! Find the fun community on Facebook here! My plan is to read all of the books drawn into my group of 30 before the axe starts to fall. Ok, before the end of phase one. I've read one so far. I liked it, but it was somewhat tonally uneven. There were some …
Release Day Is Here! Buy now! (Or later…)
The Killer and The Dead is live on Amazon - go check it out! Paperback and hardback to follow. Though this is officially part of the World Belt series, it is a stand alone novel and can be enjoyed without reading The Thief and The Demon, though if you have you will enjoy some Easter …
The Killer and The Dead eBook Release
Coming to Amazon on Saturday November 13th 2021, paperback and hardback to follow! I am proud to announce the arrival of The Killer and The Dead eBook. Check it out!
One small step at a time.
It is a hard thing to finish a book. Not the hardest thing in the world by a long chalk, but, if you've tried writing a book, and then got feedback, edited, re-edited and then polished beyond editing into obsession, well then maybe you've a small idea of how hard it is to finish a …
Why I Write Fantasy: To try to Touch the Unknown.
The adventure of a blank page is the infinite possibilities it represents. Each word written at first narrows the choices left for those to follow, words determining their most likely successors, options being lost due to the rules of grammar, the syntax of language. But, after a time a magical thing can happen: the groups …
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Why I Write Fantasy: Death and Freedom
I'm not publishing the blog I wrote earlier today. Didn't quite capture what I wanted to say. So instead I'm freehanding this one, not even a spellchecker to save me! I started writing fantasy, as I've said elsewhere, to create worlds of my own to escape into, after enjoyng the sensation of entering into other …
Why I Write Fantasy: To go to a School and try to Explain Why I Write Fantasy
I would like to thank Steven Craig and Parker Performing Arts School for inviting myself and the ever excellent Cheryl Carpinello in for a sequence of Q&A sessions with four classes of engaged and enthusiastic pupils today. I really enjoyed meeting the students and burbling on at length about many aspects of writing and fantasy …
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Why I Write Fantasy: Hamster Wheel Edition
It’s been a while since I’ve had the time to crank out a blog of an evening. I completed the line edit in double time, missing deadline by a day, but I’ll take it, and my editor is a forgiving soul, for which I am grateful. The essential truth of why I write fantasy – …
Roderick T. Macdonald 