Tag: fantasy

If you’re currently writing, editing or getting ready to publish a fantasy novel, you might be wondering if you need to include a map. Fantasy novels are well-known for including maps, more so...

World-building is essential for believable, relatable, well-rounded storytelling. It can help to create mood and atmosphere, build character, and evoke a powerful sense of place and...

While writers the world over struggle to craft truly original stories, theorists spend their time identifying ways in which they are actually all the same. Joseph Campbell famously reduced the...

Characters are shaped by their pasts – that's why so many superheroes have spin-offs dedicated to telling their origin stories. While you don't need to write detailed accounts of what happens to...

A big HAPPY RELEASE DAY to our talented author, Bronwyn Eley, whose debut fantasy novel RELIC is out today. Relic is the first volume in the new YA fantasy series, The Relic...

So you’ve got a killer idea for a fantasy novel. That’s great! It’s a beautiful feeling; that newness of an idea. We get it. Your idea has ignited your imagination with world-building...