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It’s Official!

Well, it’s official. Publish America will no longer handle Maldene. Instead, independent publisher Vault of Knowledge will take over Maldene publication. So, new cover, new publisher, and new ISBN and ordering info. Stay tuned as new details continue to develop.

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MAJOR NEWS!!!

Publish America will no longer be handling Maldene. Stay tuned for more as things develop. (the Vault will be opening soon…)

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Writing Tips: Be Not Afraid

By nature, a lot of writers are shy, reserved, intellectuals. Some of us may have been picked on as kids back in school, and so have developed a preoccupation with what others will think about how we do things, afraid of criticism, and just too caught up in following the rules that everyone tells us …

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Writing Tips: Time Travel In A Story

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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Writing Tips: Designing Aliens and Monsters

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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Writing Tip: Weather in Your World

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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Writing Tips: 3 Secrets to Writing Long Novels

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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Writing Tips: Plotting Multi-Volume Epics

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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Writing Tips: Messages In A Story

A lot of writers have a certain message they would like to put into a story. That is all fine and well, but it is important to remember that the story must come first. No matter how strong or important a message you may have, it will not be heard if the reader doesn’t finish …

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Guest Post: Epic Fantasy And Modern Mythmaking by Jeff Shanley

As part of a virtual fantasy writer tour, author Jeff Shanley has written up a guest post for my blog. He voices a few thoughts similar to the process behind my own creation of Maldene. So read on, then afterwards go to his site and read some more. Jeff’s Blog site: The Mavonduri Trilogy Official …

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