Category: The Poison Sky
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Naturalistic fantasy: a light touch for weighty tales
My work-in-progress novel, The Poison Sky, fits into the sub-genre naturalistic fantasy, which does not yet exist. I’ll define this sub-genre and why I think it’s an area ripe for new stories.
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Lonely Girl: a prototype of air
A prototype chapter for The Poison Sky, representing the mood and world of the story. Many details are inconsistent with the current state of the work.
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Fantastic etymology: powerful words unstuck in time
In a novel, words matter. But in fantasy – where words may lack a historical etymology – do words still mean what you think they mean?
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Airships: our unlikely conquest of the skies
Airships arose through an almost impossible set of coincidences. Learn the roles played by wood, wind, canvas, and booze in the conquering of a Poison Sky.
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How I create marketing “art” without spending a fortune
As a writer it sucks to admit, but pictures sell things faster than words. Learn how I use free art tools to create art to help market the novel I’m working on.