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Genre and themes you like to work with?What do you mean by subjects? Prose style, themes, genres, tropes, characters?
Genre and themes you like to work with?What do you mean by subjects? Prose style, themes, genres, tropes, characters?
Sure. I write almost entirely fantasy for my personal projects. My background is in creative writing but also politics. I tend to write a lot about generational trauma, social issues, political issues, political history. Lots of queer stuff, being queer myself. I also love mythology, classical history, that sort of thing, so I tend to include a lot of themes around all of the above.Genre and themes you like to work with?
What drew you to urban fantasy so much AE Lowan? I find it a bit salt and pepper.Our team uses short pieces to fill in the corners where the numbered novels can't. As you can see from our Reading Order, we have one or two. Many of our characters are immortal, and many are not. Either way, we've used the short pieces to add a wee bit of seasoning where it may not be appropriate in the numbered novels.
We've been at this for roughly ten years, now, and as time has gone by we've found ourselves with more than one blog. Be ready in case that happens to you. Once they gain traction, these little suckers won't die. We've gotten around it by sticking with a theme so it's easier to spot one of our blogs at a glance.
Blog the First: This Blog is Terribad
Blog the Second: A. E. Lowan
Blog the Third: This Blog is Terribad - A. E. Lowan
But, all that being said, the most important thing is to have fun. Interact with your readers however works best for you, make new friends both in and out of the writing community, but most importantly, be authentic. Readers can read your work any time. When they come to visit you on your own turf, they want to interact with you. They want access, and while we're all cave-dwelling key-tappers it behooves us to deny them. Good luck and godspeed!
Team Lowan is actually a 3-woman team of passionate fantasy writers, *bows* all three lead down this road by Lady McCaffrey herself. I'm the drafter, which keeps our narrative voice cohesive, so since I'm really the Urban Fantasy fanatic on the team, our long-running UF series gets to be first.What drew you to urban fantasy so much AE Lowan? I find it a bit salt and pepper.