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Lord of the Black Mountain Update
Chapter Three is up on Royal Road! Join, follow and comment! (I have the first six chapters scheduled to give me a buffer. Chapter Seven will be out in March.) Read the first six chapters on Catching Shadows
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Book Review: A Deadly Education by Naomi Novik
Deadly Education by Naomi Novik draws on the “magical school of magic” subgenre of fantasy (And then does terrifyingly eldritch things with it.) The magical school of magic in this setting is the “Scholomance.” The Scholomance is a magically automated school intended to protect its students from the monsters that would very much like to…
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A Slightly More Detailed Update
This update is going to include details about Lord of the Black Mountain and my plans for overhauling the design of the blog. First, as I mentioned in a previous post, the seventh chapter of Lord of the Black Mountain is complete. (And I’m about 2000+ words into the eighth chapter.) I will be posting…
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Lord of the Black Mountain Update!
Chapter Seven is complete, and I’m working on chapter eight. I was slightly stalled due to a number of factors, but the ball has gotten rolling with a shift in POV to Caris’ sister Teren. Chapter Eight will shift back to Caris, though I plan on having another scene with Teren because of spoilers. And…
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Worldbuilding Update: Lord of the Black Mountain
Okay, so I started writing Lord of the Black Mountain before I started working on the setting. (Though I should note, this story had a few variations before I actually started working on writing it.) I am very much a “by the seat of my pants” writer, so I got a lot of the story…
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