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    Hadley Rille Books calls for submission

    Hadley Rille Books is launching a new web site this weekend, along with a call for submissions for a new edition of its popular Ruins anthology series. Submissions for the anthology will be accepted through December 31, 2013. Hadley Rille also accepts full-length novel manuscripts, although...
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    Eolyn's Fall Equinox Sale

    To celebrate the Fall Equinox, Hadley Rille Books has lowered the price of Kindle and Nook editions of EOLYN to $0.99. Sole heiress to a forbidden craft, Eolyn lives in a world where women of her kind are tortured and burned. When she meets Akmael, destined to assume the throne of this...
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    The raw basics of magic.

    Hello Abbas, This looks pretty cool to me. I'm better at picking out what I do and don't like about magical systems once the story has started, but I think you've got an interesting foundation here. Very curious to see where it leads.
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    Beginning Strong

    I love Orson Scott Card's take on writing, and I'm very fond of the "full circle" approach to story telling. While not a big fan of prologues, I never write them off in a blanket fashion. I always give prologues a chance, just as I give any chapter 1 a chance. If after a page or two, the...
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    Korra + Game of Thrones

    Very cool. Thanks for sharing.
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    The Children of Hurin

    A friend of mine gave me this in audiobook about a year back, narrated by Christopher Lee. I loved the story, and also loved Lee's interpretation. If you like audiobooks, I'd recommend this one highly.
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    Turning Point

    This is an old story of mine; it was published in the speculative fiction journal Zahir in 2008. But it's one of my favorites, so I've decided to share it on MythicScribes. Hope you enjoy! (And if not, don't worry -- I can take it.) ~*~ A chilly mist rises as Jenn and I trod up the...
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    What themes or motifs do you see popping up in your writing a lot?

    Loss. The impact of history on the present; how history and circumstance limit choices and actions; how history is experienced, interpreted, and retold very differently by different people. The power of love -- how it can build, how it can destroy, how it can unite and separate. Love is...
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    New to Mythic Scribes

    Bees are wonderful. In the early days of my career, I worked a lot on social behavior and cooperation among their close relatives, the wasps. That is a very cool piece of history that they were exempt from taxes during Roman times. Most of my 'early Church' reading is work done by Elaine...
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    New to Mythic Scribes

    Thank you Selene! I didn't mean to imply that a biology focus makes my writing boring to others. When I made that comment about getting hung up on trivial biogeek things, I was thinking about myself more as a reader. I'm the type of geek that might spend hours puzzling over the map of...
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    New to Mythic Scribes

    Thank you, Chilari. I'm kind of eclectic with my history reading. Medieval/Renaissance history, particularly the women of these periods, has been an on-going interest. I also went through an early Christian Church phase some years ago. I recently fell in love with Richard Holmes' THE AGE OF...
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    Sensitive Male Heroes

    I can't think of a character, male or female, who is not in touch with how he or she feels about any given situation. In my own writing, all the manly men know what they feel and what they want. They may not always express their feelings in words, but they certainly act on them. Even my...
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    Best Writing Guides?

    I've read a lot of how-to guides, and the only one that was useful -- and very useful at that -- was How to Write Fantasy and Science Fiction by Orson Scott Card. It is a sleek volume with 137 pages, and it has everything you need to know -- all the essentials for writing in this genre...
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    Dream Sequences / Memories

    Whether or not this works all depends on how you craft it. Sometimes flashbacks read as info dumps -- the character is simply going through a checklist of what happened before, so the reader is caught up on the backstory. That's the sort of thing that makes me lose interest very quickly...
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