Tag: Fantasy
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Building an Epic Fantasy World: Modern History, Trade, and Society
So up until this point, I’ve developed my world, Eoria, configured what technology is available, what magic works, and even what people populate it. See the last post, on the history and cultures here. Today I’ll design the modern history, talk a bit about trade & industry, and design the societies that make up Eoria.…
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Building an Epic Fantasy World: Culture, Ancient History, and Societies
In my previous post, I went into detail on how I designed magic and technology levels of Eoria and before that I designed the geography and physical make-up of the world. Now I’m going to discuss the social geography a bit. See the last post here. First off, unless you’re writing some kind of utopian…
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Another Fallen Race Review and Quick Update
There’s a new review of The Fallen Race available at Shiny Book Review from author Jason Cordova. Check it out here. As far as my own writing, I’m complete with edits and rewrites of Echo of the High Kings and currently working on The Shattered Empire, the sequel to The Fallen Race. As I work…
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Reviews and Stuff
First off, Cedar Sanderson has a review up for the Fallen Race right here. Second, I’m midway through my YA SF novel, roughly 40,ooo words. It’s coming more slowly than I’d like, with the main issue being I only really have had time to write for it on it on my lunch break during the work…
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Starfest Denver 2014
I had the opportunity to attend Starfest last weekend as an author and participant. It was a great time, all in all, with the highlight being the Combat in Science Fiction and Fantasy Panel. We had a great turnout for that panel (almost standing room only) and excellent audience participation. Sunday was May…
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Denver Starfest 2014
I’ll be attending Starfest 2014 in Denver, CO this coming weekend (May 2-4). This will be my first convention as a participant, so I’m pretty excited about it. As of yet, it looks like I’ll be on three panels. May 2nd at 7pm I’ll be on “You Got Your Reality in My Fantasy.” May 3rd…
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Yar… pirates
This is not a post about me starting a new story based on pirates. A FB friend was kind enough to inform me last weekend that I, apparently, am being pirated. Someone was kind enough to post free downloads of my books. This gives me a somewhat mixed feeling. On the one hand, there’s the feeling…
Kal Spriggs 