Well, I’ve had a chance to guest post on A Writer’s Tale, a site run by one Scarlet Van Dyk who is a pretty blond that sadly does not even live on the same continent as myself. At any rate, it’s a blog devoted to tips for writers so I gave her a few: my …
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Maldene Behind The Scenes: The Alphabet
The world not only has its own language but its own alphabet as well. Completely alien characters that do not always match up exactly to corresponding English equivalents. For one thing, it’s entirely phonetic. There is no long and short version of the same vowel, but a different letter for each. Different sound means different …
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New Black And White Maldene World Map!
Yes, I did some tinkering, some stitching together, cleaning up, and little additions here and there, and the result is the brand new Maldene World Map, black and white version, now available under Downloads for Registered Users (only). No more Left and Right halves like in the book for my fans, this is the whole …
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Volume 2 Cover Update
Well, fresh in from the artists is a little update of the in-progress cover for Maldene Volume 2. Now, obviously since Volume 2 is the second half of the same novel, the cover is going to be somewhat similar. Since the second half of this first book revolves around a certain set of old ruins, …
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Lamia Picture Update
Hi folks, just thought I’d share anotrher update with you all. Sasha- one of the two artists who drew the Volume One cover and are now working on the Volume 2 cover, is also working on a little portrait of a dancing Lamia that appears in a bar scene towards the end of Volume One. …
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Maldene Behind The Scenes: My Inspiration
Okay, so some might ask just where i get my ideas for some of this stuff. After all, Maldene is quite the complex and detailed world, with about as much variety as an actual world. Surely I must have some inspiration from a few things, right? Well of course. So consider this article as just …
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Maldene Behind The Scenes: The Harbor Of The World
One of the more significant places on Maldene is the famed Harbor Of The World, so named because nearly every culture on the planet can meet one another at the Harbor, even if they’ve never heard of one another anywhere else before. A tropical port that I liken to being about the size of the …
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Some Preliminary Sketches
Well, as I may have earlier announced, the cover for Maldene Volume II is under way, but more than that, is my favorite artists are tossing in a few other things. I’d recently created a more detailed and colorized map of the world of Maldene then showed it around to a couple of friends, including …
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Maldene Behind The Scenes: Why So Many Characters?
Just the first Maldene novel has somewhere around 8 main characters and a dozen or so more secondary ones, and later novels only add to that number. In fact, by the time all 13 novels are finished, the number has topped some 250 characters. So, why so many characters? When you have such a vast …
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Maldene Behind The Scenes How Deep Do I Plot? And Why?
One might ask, that with a 13-book series, how deep do I plot things? Well, I can tell you that by the time you’ve reached Chapter One of the first book you’ve already missed clues to major plot elements for the next two books. In Maldene IV I have a segment that only has its …
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