Thank you so much for joining me on this fun adventure. To all who submitted guest posts: thank you so much for helping make this a much easier Fantasy Month!
To all who commented, liked, and shared posts: thank you for helping make February less lonely and far more cozy and beautiful.
Read MoreAnd oh, it’s been fun! Thank you for coming along with me on this adventure.
I thought that today I’d share with you a list of the fantasy characters I’ve met in books that I would most love to sit and have tea with.
Read MoreThere are only a few days of February left, dear friends.
Thank you all so much for making February is Fantasy Month super magical.
It’s been a true pleasure having so many wonderful guests over, I hope you have all found some new authors and bloggers to follow and investigate through these posts and short stories!
Today I am excited to be sharing Jessica A. Tanner’s short story, Ehsan’s Ride, with you. I am loving the fact that I got TWO fantastical short stories that are horse-themed, as my first reading love was horses (and dogs) and so two stories tying my two loves of horses and fantasy together are just absolutely thrilling my heart!
Read MoreHello readers and Happy Fairy Tale Day!
I’m Rachel Ann Michael Harris and I’ll be taking over Jenelle’s blog for February is Fantasy Month. I’m a fantasy writer whose had several flash fiction and short stories published online and in anthologies and am the author of the fairy tale retelling The Beauty of Magic, a mash up of Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs and Goldie Locks with Scottish vibes and bears. I’m a lifelong resident of Minnesota and love reading, dogs, and sunshine.
In honor of fairy tale day, I’ll be talking about five fairy tales that don’t have enough (or any that I know of) retellings.
Read MoreReally, they only needed one. How dangerous could it be?
“It’s not worth the risk,” Kadesh had said. “You’ll get yourself killed before making it within a rope’s throw of those monsters.”
Kadesh was good at being afraid. Though, Enían supposed it had something to do with watching four younger brothers die on the battlefield.
Read MoreIt has been so fun this month playing host to so many wonderful writers here at Safe Return Doubtful!
I can’t believe that February only has one more week to go!
Today, another one of my favorite authors is here to give us some tips when it comes to that staple of fantasy writing…. research!
Ahhhh research. That elusive thought or idea or question that can take you down a rabbit hole for hours upon hours just for a single line in your 100k-word story… but it’s often worth it for the feeling of knowing that what you wrote will stand up to being examined under the microscope of authenticity!
But research can also be distracting, and derail you completely from working on your actual story. So… what do you research? How do you pick? Where do you look? How do you decide what to include from your findings?
Here to answer all those questions is Sarah Pennington, author of the Bastian Dennel Files, Blood in the Snow, Through a Shattered Glass, Mechanical Heart, and the new Daughters of Atìrse series!
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