I‘ve known JulieMidnight (which is the pseudonym of my dear friend Ash Navarre) for a bit over 11 years now. What started out as a shared interest in writing and snark turned into a close friendship over the years: I’ve seen her struggles, she’s seen mine. As writers, I think the best description would be …
I wrote an article on how I’ve written the lead women in my last two series: https://mightythorjrs.wordpress.com/2017/04/28/guest-blog-writing-real-women-in-a-fantasy-setting-by-k-s-villoso/
To finish up this series (read My Scathing Review of Jaeth’s Eye and My Scathing Review of Aina’s Breath if you haven’t, yet), I review Sapphire’s Flight, Book 3 of The Agartes Epilogues… One thing that struck me about this novel is that it is long, a LOT longer than the two previous books. Villoso …
This is an issue that has been brought up by a couple of readers a while back, in that what ethnicities are the people in The Agartes Epilogues are, exactly? Well, the short answer is that it’s there, in the books. They’re Jinsein, or Kags (or Hafed or Baidhan, if you want to be specific), or …
After about eight months of hiatus, I’m going to make another hiking post. Yay! My legs, not as happy. There’s a few options for snow-free hiking in BC at this time of the year. I’m not that fond of tourist traps, so we tend to really go off to more remote places. We were supposed …
