by ObiwanSpock | Feb 13, 2016 | awesome, ebooks, fantasy, sword and sorcery, The Tale of Azaran, Zackery Arbela
Like a lot of writers, I have a regular writing group, filled with creative types with at least a passing interest in speculative fiction in general, where we read each others work and provide what are hopefully constructive critiques…and so on. So I was there...
by ObiwanSpock | Jan 27, 2016 | ebooks, fantasy, sword and sorcery, The Tale of Azaran, Zackery Arbela
Imagine if you will the Lord of the Rings without Middle Earth, with Frodo/s quest taking place instead in a modern-day suburb (with the local Walmart or sewage treatment plant taking the place of Mount Doom.) It doesn’t really work, except perhaps as an...
by ObiwanSpock | Sep 18, 2012 | ebooks, publishing, self-publishing
Way back in the 19th Century, even before the rise of the pulps, another form of cheap amusement haunted the eyes of the reading. Short, lurid, quickly written and dismissed as so much trash, it nonetheless was the most popular form of written entertainment of its...