Just thought I’d update any followers out there about what’s going on in the world of Maldene First off my artists- Sasha and Diego- are hard at work on the new Volume 2 cover. Being as Volume 2 is the second half of the first novel, the cover will have some major similarities with the …
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Characters of Maldene: Shong
Young, reserved, and with the most innate skill with the sword of anyone around, Shong is also friend and fighting buddy to Bronto. Between Bronto’s massive strength and Shong’s hyper precision with the blade, there is nothing this duo can’t stand up against. More than just a normal swordsman, Shong is also part acrobat. He’s …
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Characters of Maldene: Lindel
One of the secondary characters in our main group is an elf named Lindel. With the bow he is unsurpassed, able to hit just about anything that he can see. That would be normal enough for a fantasy world elven archer on steroids, but Maldene has a bit of the real world in it. Like …
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Maldene Status Update
Well, I know I’ve not been doing too many articles for the web site of late, but that’s only because it’s Halloween season and I’ve been getting my annual haunted house ready. That takes a few weeks of late. But I promise that after my annual haunting that I will be back with more content. …
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I’ve been interviewed on the Bobby Buck show
Blogger and local talent promoter Bobby Buck recently interviewed me foe his online show. well, the interview is up and running. How does it look? Just take a look for yourself…
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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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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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