Well True Believers (okay, so with apologies to Stan Lee, I need to come up with my own tag line for any of you guys out there), I have another cover update. Between sickness, dying laptops and phones, root canals, and a bunch of other stuff there has been much in the way of delays …
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I was just interviewed for the blog site “Jessica Knauss, Famous Writer”. You can read Jessica’s interview of me over at http://jessicaknauss.blogspot.com/2012/06/interview-with-mark-tierno-author-of.html. You might just find it a little bit of fun.
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I have made posts before regarding designing a language for your fictional world, so now is the time for a concrete example, in the form of my own. Yes, Maldene has a dictionary, and even an alphabet. You can download the font file for the alphabet in the Downloads section of www.maldene.com, but for the …
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A couple days ago I was interviewed by Kaamil Garyson of Sinister Prose, and even better it was a full video call via Skype! You can view the whole thing direct on YouTube right Here, or view the embed which should (hopefully) appear below. You can also check it out on his blog.
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Time travel is one of those things that is great as a concept, but all too often a horrible miss in execution. Be it in books, movies, or TV, too often the author thinks that the phrase “It’s time travel, who can understand it?”, or “Temporal physics gives me a headache,” is all they need …
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Every good SF or Fantasy story needs its monsters or aliens, but it is not enough to simply slap together something ugly and then drop it in front of the characters. To make your story believable in any setting, the monsters must feel as real as everything else. First off, the creature has to make …
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If you are writing an epic that spans the globe of whatever fantasy or SF world you have created, sooner or later the subject of weather will come up. And if you do indeed have an entire world to deal with (or most enough of one) then it is not just enough to start sprinkling …
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There are a lot of tips and strategies that people suggest and use for doing what it takes to write an epic novel, but no matter what fine point or strategy one chooses, no matter what preference one tells you or secret one has for writing that book, it really comes down to three simply …
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There’s something to be said about a good epic, the kind that spans several volumes. But for the writer, that involves a lot of planning ahead. For myself, I have written a fantasy ep;ic that spans 13 novels, 5.2 million words, and about 250 characters, as well as a smaller Sci-Fi epic at 5 novels, …
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