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March 13, 2019
About The Characters: Meet The Minor Players in “The Wall Of Night” Series — Meet Gol
The About The Characters post series focuses on the minor characters in The Wall Of Night series, in large part because:
“I think it’s the presence of the smaller characters that “makes” a story, creating texture around the main points of view.”
Initially, the series focused exclusively on characters from The Heir of Night, but now I’m continuing on with minor characters from both The Gathering Of The Lost and Daughter of Blood simultaneously...
March 10, 2019
Recalling “The Fellowship Of The Ring” Film
On 1 March I started a Romance in Fantasy post series on the Supernatural Underground by looking at the novel of The Lord Of The Rings, chiefly because it’s influenced fantasy literature and the epic fantasy subgenre so profoundly.
All of which got me thinking about the three The Lord of The Rings(LoTR) films as well. Then last Friday, on an unexpected road trip, I heard a review of music soundtracks and their composers, in this case Howard Shore. The piece of music featured was Evenstar, fro...
March 6, 2019
A Geography Of Haarth: Ships’ Shrine
The Wall of Night Series map; artist Peter Fitzpatrick
The A Geography of Haarth post series is traversing the full range of gazetted locales and places from The Wall Of Night world of Haarth.
From January 25, 2013 to November 25, 2014, the series explored locations encountered in The Heir Of Night and The Gathering Of The Lost.
Now the series has resumed to traverse the geography of Daughter Of Blood (The Wall Of Night Book Three.) The new series comprises updates of previous entries as wel...
March 3, 2019
On Supernatural Underground Now: I Kick Off The Year of Romance in Fantasy Fiction
Last month, I signalled my decision to make 2019 the Year of Romance (#YOR) on the Supernatural Underground by talking about Romance in Fantasy Fiction (#RIFF.)
Friday being the 1st of March, I kicked the series off with Post the First, titled:
Romance in Fantasy Fiction: The Lord Of The Rings EffectIn some ways it may seem an unusual place to start when the theme is romance, especially when you consider this paragraph from the lead-in:
Not quite like this in the book…
“The reason I want to...
February 27, 2019
About The Characters: Meet The Minor Players in “The Wall Of Night” Series — Meet Girvase
The About The Characters post series focuses on the minor characters in The Wall Of Night series, in large part because:
“I think it’s the presence of the smaller characters that “makes” a story, creating texture around the main points of view.”
Initially, the series focused exclusively on characters from The Heir of Night, but now I’m continuing on with minor characters from both The Gathering Of The Lost and Daughter of Blood simultaneously...
February 24, 2019
My Worldbuilding: A Few Thoughts On Guiding Influences
The Wall of Night Series map; artist Peter Fitzpatrick
Last week I posted On Worldbuilding, in which I talked about approaches to speculative fiction worldbuilding in a general way, in response to a question on Good Reads. This week I thought it might be fun to take a closer look at what (I believe) informs my own worldbuilding.
In particular, last week I mentioned that the “body” of worldbuilding having a “spine”, such as a period in history, which can then provide a guide in terms of events...
February 20, 2019
A Geography Of Haarth: Ship’s Prow House
“The Heir Of Night” map: artist, Peter Fitzpatrick
The A Geography of Haarth post series is designed to traverse the full range of gazetted locales and places from The Wall Of Night world of Haarth.
From January 25, 2013 to November 25, 2014, the series explored locations encountered in The Heir Of Night and The Gathering Of The Lost.
Now the series has resumed to traverse the geography of Daughter Of Blood (The Wall Of Night Book Three.) The new series comprises updates of previous entries...
February 17, 2019
On Worldbuilding
Recently on Good Reads (GR) I was asked a question about worldbuilding. I’m not terribly active on GR because there’s only so much social media a gal can do in a meaningful way and still write books and deal with realtime life, so questions are a relatively rare event. 
February 13, 2019
About The Characters: Meet The Minor Players in “The Wall Of Night” Series — Meet Gille
UK/AU/NZ
The About The Characters post series focuses on the minor characters in The Wall Of Night series, in large part because:
“I think it’s the presence of the smaller characters that “makes” a story, creating texture around the main points of view.”
Initially, the series focused exclusively on characters from The Heir of Night, but now I’m continuing on with minor characters from both The Gathering Of The Lost and Daughter of Blood simul...
February 10, 2019
What I’m Reading: “Search Image” (Web Shifter’s Library #1) by Julie Czerneda
What I’m reading right now, and yes, really enjoying! (thought I’d get that out there right away
