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January 31, 2018
A Geography Of Haarth: Impassable Range
The Wall of Night Series map; design by Peter Fitzpatrick
The A Geography of Haarth post series explores the full range of locales and places from The Wall Of Night world of Haarth.
From January 25, 2013 to November 25, 2014, the posts traversed locations encountered in The Heir Of Night and The Gathering Of The Lost.
Now the series has returned to gazette the geography of Daughter Of Blood (The Wall Of Night Book Three.) The new series comprises updates of previous entries as well as new li...
January 28, 2018
Ursula K. Le Guin, 1929 – 2018
Ursula K. Le Guin passed away last week at the age of 88, after a long and prestigious life in letters. In 2014, she was awarded the (US) National Book Association awarded Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters. The citation included the following:
“For more than forty years, Le Guin has defied conventions of narrative, language, character, and genre, as well as transcended the boundaries between fantasy and realism to forge new paths for literary fiction…
Among the nation’...
January 24, 2018
About The Characters: Meet The Minor Players In “The Wall Of Night” Series — Meet Brania
USA
Recently, I resumed my “About the Characters” post series that focuses on the minor characters in The Wall Of Night series, 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 Bl...
January 21, 2018
Artefacts Of The Writing Life #4: The Style Guide
Recently I’ve been sharing a few artefacts* of the writing life with you and this week the spotlight’s on the Style Guide.
The two guides featured are my desktop “quick reference” go-to’s, the venerable Strunk & White’s The Elements of Style and the far more recent and for a while hugely popular, Eats, Shoots & Leaves.
In addition to these desktop aids, I also subscribe to the Chicago Manual of Style Online, which I practically live in during the copyediting and proofing stages of the book.
S...
January 17, 2018
A Geography Of Haarth: Ijir (Updated)
The Wall of Night Series map; design by Peter Fitzpatrick
The A Geography of Haarth post series explores the full range of locales and places from The Wall Of Night world of Haarth.
From January 25, 2013 to November 25, 2014, the posts traversed locations encountered in The Heir Of Night and The Gathering Of The Lost.
Now the series has returned to gazette the geography of Daughter Of Blood (The Wall Of Night Book Three.) The new series comprises updates of previous entries as well as new li...
January 14, 2018
What I’m Reading: Something Borrowed…
To bridge the holiday season, I’ve embarked on a post series titled “Something Old, Something New, Something Borrowed, and Something Blue.” (Original titles? Yeah, nah… 
January 10, 2018
About The Characters: Meet The Minor Players In “The Wall Of Night” Series — Meet Boras
UK/AU/NZ
Recently, I resumed my “About the Characters” post series that focuses on the minor characters in The Wall Of Night series, 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...
January 7, 2018
Artefacts of the Writing Life #3: The Notebook
Recently I’ve been sharing a few artefacts* of the writing life with you and this week’s exhibit is the notebook. No, not the electronic kind, useful though they are, but the good old-fashioned, bound-between-two-covers and maybe-(even)-secured-with-a-fastener kind.
What’s so good or essential about this sort of notebook you may ask? And wasn’t it covered by the Artefact #1 Pen and Paper entry?
But no, dear readers, in terms of the latter: the reason the notebook is an entry in its own right...
January 3, 2018
A Geography Of Haarth: Ij (Updated)
The Wall of Night Series map; design by Peter Fitzpatrick
The A Geography of Haarth post series explores the full range of locales and places from The Wall Of Night world of Haarth.
From January 25, 2013 to November 25, 2014, the posts traversed locations encountered in The Heir Of Night and The Gathering Of The Lost.
Now the series has returned to gazette the geography of Daughter Of Blood (The Wall Of Night Book Three.) The new series comprises updates of previous entries as well as new li...
December 31, 2017
Looking Back, Looking Forward; Farewell 2017, Welcome 2018
via Wikipedia: Statue representing Janus Bifrons in the Vatican Museums
January (as most of you probably know) is named for Janus, the Roman god of doorways, who is always depicted with two faces, one looking back into the past, the other forward into the future. In this sense he also seems aligned to the New Year, when we, too, look back into the year that’s been and forward to what the new year, in this case 2018, may bring.
Traditionally, I understand that New Year, as opposed to Christmas...
