Category Archives: Musings
Authors Need To Shut Up!
We’ve all done it: fallen in love with a celebrity of some sort. Perhaps it was an actor or maybe a musician. For me, it was fantasy and science fiction writers. It all started when I was a teenager. Not … Continue reading
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Tagged activism, Art, Author, author activism, authors, authors behaving badly, Blog, blogs, self-marketing, social media, twitter, Writer, Writer Resources, Writing
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Fantasy Violence: Too Realistic or Not?
Many reviewers believe fantasy has become too violent, too ultra-realistic in that violence. Many of those critics point to Mark Lawrence’s series The Broken Empire as a prime example of their premise. Since Emperor of Thrones was released today, I … Continue reading
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Tagged abercrombie, conan, Fantasy, Fantasy literature, fantasy realism, gore, grimdark, mutilation, Prince of Thorns, robert e. howard, the broken empire, the first law, torture, violence
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