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Swords forged by dragon magic. Ancient rivalries flaring into all-out war. Dragon Riders caught up in a clash of hidden powers. A world hangs in the balance. Dragon Blade, the second book in J.D. Hallowell’s War of the Blades, is the epic conclusion to the story begun in Dragon Fate. Delno...

I suggest using the Encyclopedia Mythica at Pantheon.org as a starting point for research. I'm linking to the section on Norse mythology, but there is an extensive section on the Greeks, as well. Encyclopedia Mythica: Norse mythology.

I would have sworn that I had added you when I first went through this thread, but Google+ wasn't showing it, so I added you again. I'm keeping my fingers crossed that it takes this time.

Exactly. People can use nearly any characteristic as an insult if they are determined. The sneering comment "What else would you expect from a ____________?" can be completed with anything from "liberal arts major" or "engineer" to "Christian", "atheist", "cripple", "Gator fan", or "person who...

"Crippled" describes me pretty well. So does "disabled". I am not "differently abled" or "handicapped" or any of those other euphemistic terms that people use to make themselves feel better about the fact that there are some of us who have significant limitations. I don't think "crippled" is an...

Thanks for circling and for reading the book. I hope you enjoy it!

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Any time you use titles or other technical terms in ways that differ from their ordinary use, you run the risk that your readers will carry their existing knowledge and expectations about these terms into their reading of your story, and the differences will cause problems for believability or...

Don't delete something just because it "isn't very good." Rewrite it, instead. Figure out what you were trying to make that scene or line do, and figure out a way to make it do it better. If your writing is meandering, decide whether there is a place for that scene, description, or exchange...

It would really depend on the jurisdiction. Most crimes of these sorts fall under state, not Federal law. It might get tricky if it happened in a national park. The most common crimes that I could see person A being charged with under these circumstances would be attempted murder, reckless...

Speaking as someone who has studied martial arts extensively, I would think that the difficulty raised by the physics of balancing on the end of a branch without the branch breaking would be there regardless of the martial skill of the person standing on it. You might want to include...

I don't necessarily think that you are thinking about this too rigidly, but you may need to be willing to look more deeply at the underlying reasons why things are the way they are, and what the consequences would be of changing them. Women were tied to child-bearing and child-rearing roles in...

You can tell time by the progression of the stars across the sky at night, and tell seasons by the constellations that are prominent at nightfall. Only Polaris, also called the pole star or North Star, remains in the same place throughout the night throughout the year. Here on Earth, the moon...