Something I learned pretty early on in life: the world doesn’t care about your desire to succeed. It really doesn’t. It doesn’t give a fuck about how much you want something, or how hard you’ve worked, or how much you think you deserve that shiny prize. It very rarely gets impressed with what you had …
A common question authors get asked is “Which of your characters are most like you?” If you’re a smart author, you would’ve probably tried to avoid making a character TOO much like you and relied on your talent and skill to come up with some great, original characters (or, if you’re smarter, you would’ve used …
I realized half an hour ago that I’ve been a bad friend because I promised Quen I would make this since she doesn’t drink and she was pregnant at the time, and I never did. So here we go. *reads recipe* Wait, whatddya mean I have to wait one fucking hour for tea to cool? FUCK …
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I‘ve written very few characters with the dynamic chemistry of Tali and Khine; taking the classic Princess and Thief trope for a spin, much of their interactions have less to do with class differences and what sets them apart, and more of what they–one a royal, the other a criminal–have in common. In a tale of …
The worldbuilding in the epic fantasy world of Agos-agan, which is the world of both Annals of the Bitch Queen and The Agartes Epilogues, is heavily inspired by my own culture. And one of the things I wanted to write about is the matriarchal flavour of many of the societies in it, which sets them …
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