Walter Rhein's Blog, page 28

Chris Sorrell, Samuel Z. Jones, Zachary Schmitz and Julie Achterhoff

Hello All,Another month has slipped past and summer has been replaced with fall. I don't know about the rest of you, but I've always thought that autumn was the most inspirational time of year. Not just for writing, but for doing just about everything! This is the time of year when you should be running around outside wearing a flannel shirt and chopping up things with an axe...and not

Words with Julie Achterhoff, Author of "Quantum Earth" and "Deadly Lucidity"

Can you tell us a little bit about "Quantum Earth" and "Deadly Lucidity?"Quantum Earth is my first novel about a group of metaphysical scientists using very alternative means to find out why the Mayan calendar says the end of the Earth is coming in 2012. People have been very interested in this book's take on the subject because it's so unconventional. They even interview the dead through a

The Auselsen Seven - An interview with Zachary T.M. Schmitz

1- How did you start writing? What does it mean to you? I started writing when I was in fourth grade. The teacher asked for a written assignment depicting the next chapter of the book we had just finished reading. He was expecting a half page of type from the students (and that was double-spaced). I turned in 20 full pages of single spaced type (typed on a typewriter). My teacher made a point to

Words with Samuel Z Jones Author of "The Star of Silveneir"

Can you tell us a little bit about "The Star of Silveneir?"
"The Star of Silveneir" is the first book in an ongoing saga; "Star" and its first sequel "Far Hrinor" are available on Lulu.com as free downloads; there are currently two further sequels in draft, and three more in progress.
Every Fantasy world has, somewhere, its greatest swordsman; "The Star of Silveneir" deals with the rise of

The Bone Sword Promotional Video

Rhemalda publishing just sent me the link to the promotional video they whipped up for my upcoming novel "The Bone Sword." The guy who does the voice-over is appropriately intense, and I think you'll enjoy watching this video over and over and over again (like fifty thousand times would be a good number).  If you want to do me a big favor, you should embed the video into your blog.  Here's the

Words with Chris Sorrell, Author of "Ghost of Achilles"

Can you tell us a little bit about "Ghost of Achilles?"
My first book, Ghost of Achilles - True Ogre is a fantasy based work of fiction which follows the aftermath of the capture of Achilles by Voldek, the True Ogre.  Achilles is the leader of the human inhabitants of Kelvor but the order of things have been thrown into chaos by a brutal conflict which has resulted in his capture.  The book

Orcs Rock!, Danila Botha, and A Brother's Hate

Writing, writing writing...sometimes it grinds your fingers down into little wads of sweaty pulp. It's been a bit of a crazy month, and what I realized as I started putting this newsletter for all the fine and hearty Heroic Fantasy fans throughout the world is that...I haven't done a lot of articles on my web page recently...(gasp!).
Well, there's a reason for that. J.S. Chancellor and myself

Walter Rhein Interviews

Julie Achterhoff's BlogInterview With Talented Author Walter Rheinerthwkr at gmail dot com

A Brother's Hate by Elie Challita

I have to admit, I kind of liked this one.  It is a good length for internet writing and it strikes a good balance between exposition and action.  I'd encourage Elie to be careful about using so many italics (since the great majority of editors like to delete them at will...probably because they don't often come through when you cut and past them to a blog), and to watch out for small grammatical

Princess Sofia!

Hello All! Well, at 11:39 AM on July 25th 2010, my daughter Sofia was born. Obviously this is keeping my wife and I busy over these last couple days! We'll keep you posted as to all her great adventures!