Book Feature and Guest Post: Dark Innocence by Rahima Warren

Evoking a FANTASY World
When reading a fantasy set in a different (non-historical) world or time, I find it jarring if the characters’ names are old familiar ones from our everyday reality. Why would people in a strange time/place have names like Steven or Julia? Also, why would they use the same words to refer to time or distance that we do? Convenient for the writer perhaps, but too familiar for me as a reader.

TIME AND DISTANCE:
In my fantasy trilogy, The Star-Seer’s Prophecy, I tried to evok...