I believe (not that I trust my memory) that only those who sign up as members can read at WattPad, whereas everything is available to the casual...
Barsoom was my doorway to the entire universe of speculative fiction. Whether ER Burroughs was actually that much of an influence on my own...
I did get around this question in my own stories by having gold (or whatever) 'revert' after a time, in true fairy gold fashion. Although I don't...
Agree with this, in general. The main protagonist of my four Donzalo's Destiny books might or might not be on the spectrum but I did not try to...
Immediately—like in the first page or two—bad prose. If it is written well I'm likely to go on for at least a few more pages. That's true of all...
The lotus might be a possibility, both the blue and white water lilies, which can be a mild hallucinogenic as well as mimicking some of the...
All my fantasy novels so far (but not the short stories) are set in the same world but there are several series, set in different times and...
Talking about my novel(s) in progress actually helps me come up with new ideas for them.
A sense of wonder. That's what fantasy has always meant for me. Good fantasy evokes that sense of wonder.
A blog post on merfolk (mermaids and mermen) and how they fit into my world building here: The Lucky Lad: Merfolk
I just read an horrendously bad pulp science-fiction novella (and I use 'science' very loosely but not as loosely as the author) called The Lost...
If an imaginary setting makes for fantasy, is 'The Prisoner of Zenda' a fantasy novel? It is set in the entirely made up country of Ruritania...
Aside from a few mentions in stand-alone stories, I have two rather different sorts of dragons from two different 'universes' in which I have set...
