Winner of the Sydney J. Bounds Best Newcomer Award and 2007 World Fantasy Award finalist, Scott Lynch is the author of the Gentleman Bastard Sequence, several short stories and an online serial, Queen of the Iron Sands. He has a strong following who call themselves ‘priests of the crooked author’ and many others, too, have … Read more
This article is by Michael Cairns. Fantasy is an expansive genre in which the reader can be transported to far-off lands. Urban fantasy does something quite different, laying the fantastical world over the one in which we live. This can be a tricky thing to get right. Too much fantasy and the realism can be … Read more
The third issue of our fantasy magazine, Myths Inscribed, is now available. This issue contains three terrific stories, as well as a piece on Babylonian mythology. FICTION: Painted Truths by Martin Spernau The Ravenous Flock by Adrian Diglio [part 2 of 2] [a Warp and Weft feature story] Paying the Troll by Karen Leigh Baxter … Read more
Recently at Mythic Scribes, we’ve enjoyed some exceptional articles on world building. I have incorporated tips from several already, with noticeable improvements in my organization and productivity in this challenging craft. This process has also led me deeper into my worlds. In fact, lately I have been almost overwhelmed by all I have yet to … Read more
All good books start from somewhere. That inkling of an idea sparked by reading a great book, taking an afternoon walk, or even being walloped over the head by the muse. Time passes. Maybe months, maybe years. You see that idea grow into a story concept, the story concept become a rough outline, the outline … Read more