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If All Were Equal

Originally posted on Guild Of Dreams:
by Chantal Boudreau When someone mentions female characters in fantasy, some stereotypes come to mind. There is the damsel in distress, the plucky princess, the matronly queen or the bawdy tavern wench, just for a few examples. These seem to show up everywhere, unfortunate tropes who sometimes serve as…

When Shadows Fall, by Bruce Blake – 99c Promo Blitz

Originally posted on ellamedler:
If you like epic fantasy, the kind that feels like reality, you want this book. This is a world the likes of which you cannot even imagine. No problem, Bruce Blake has already done that part for you. Honestly, you want this book. And you want it now, while it’s on…

Excuses, Excuses – Part 1

In the year and a bit I’ve been working at my day job, it has been fairly common knowledge that I am a writer, but it wasn’t until my recent announcement of my Small Gods series being released through Paper Gold Publishing that my co-workers really sat up and started paying attention. Since then, I’ve […]

It’s Been a While/Paper Gold Publishing

I can’t believe it’s been 6 months since the last time I wrote in my blog (bad writer…bad!), and even then, the last time I lazily reblogged one of Steven Montano’s entries from the Guild of Dreams blog. I’d like to think that there are still a few of you out there wondering where I’ve […]

Cheesy Fantasy Movies, Part 1

Originally posted on Guild Of Dreams:
The Lord of the Rings trilogy is pretty awesome.  Game of Thrones, perhaps even better.  For fans of epic fantasy, these efforts represent the culmination of what we love about the genre, everything that pulls us in whenever we pick up a new novel or sit down to play Dungeons & Dragons with our friends —…

Building a Story

Originally posted on Guild Of Dreams:
by Bruce Blake —– A pleasant thing happened to me the other day…one of those things that all writers have experienced, but want to have happen more frequently. A story began to form in my head. ‘Prospector’ by ToOliver2 courtesy of Creative Commons It came out of no where,…

Urban Fantasy Sale and Giveaway!!

We’ve come to the doldrums of the year…Christmas is long done and summer is too far away. How’s an intelligent man or woman supposed to pass the time? Watch reality TV? Invent role-playing games for you and your cat? If these and other inane activities don’t work for you, then jump into I Read Fantasy’s […]

The Blog Tour Stops Here!

A little while back, the Guild of Dreams hosted a cover reveal for Steven Montano’s next book in his fantastic Skullborn Trilogy, and I know you’ve been  holding your breath ever since. Probably your palms have been sweaty with anticipation and you’ve been logging into your Amazon account every couple of hours to see if […]

The Stealthy Novel Release

First off…happy holidays to one and all. I hope you all got to spend time with loved ones, enjoying all the things that are most important to you. Sometime during these couple of days of holidays, I published The Darkness Comes (The Second Book of the Small Gods). Contrary to everything we indie authors are […]

Been A While…Time for an Update

I can’t believe how long it’s been since I’ve had to do an ‘I can’t believe how long it’s been since my last post’ post. I had a pretty good run for a while but dropped the ball…time to get back on the horse (did you see that? Two cliches for the price of one). […]