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Today I just wanted to take a moment to highlight my current favorite fantasy artist: Michael Komarck. He has done lots of art for popular fantasy lines like A Song of Ice and Fire (calendar and card game), Magic: The Gathering, The Wheel of Time e-book covers (see my post on the Knife of Dreams e-book cover), and many others. He has been nomina...

This idea is just too hard to resist. I literally can’t help myself. Tor.com has come up with a list of fantasy characters who they think would comprise a fictional, epic fantasy Avengers team. Naturally, I think they got it horribly wrong. And most of the commenters got it even more horribly wrong. The spirit of the exercise is to assemble a ...

Although I follow a number of authors and writing advice blogs online, I don’t really post much about it. Partly because I feel like I don’t have much to contribute beyond what others are already saying. There’s a lot of great material out there, stuff that new writers wouldn’t have had any access to just a few years ago. But today I read somet...

My wife, Missy, and I are fond of arguing about language. She’s an English major, and I’m a linguistics major, and we sometimes have vastly different ways of thinking about language. It’s a lot of fun. Our latest discussion was whether it’s more correct to say “another thing coming” or “another think coming.” Missy saw an ad using “another thing...

I am working on the outline for my novel, and it’s coming along slowly but surely. I have an almost complete beat sheet. It’s not a huge deal, but it’s been a while since I posted anything about my writing, and I just wanted to let everyone know that I’m still working on something. I’ve joined an online writer’s group and submissions are due on ...

This will be a relatively short one today, but it should be immensely interesting to aspiring writers, especially of the fantasy genre. Brandon Sanderson teaches a creative writing class at Brigham Young University. This isn’t the creative writing class you probably took in college where you spent a short while on various different formats like ...

It’s happening again. Last week I posted about Kevin J. Anderson’s experiment in cross-promotion, where he hired a musician to write an album full of progressive rock music based on Anderson’s fantasy novel Terra Incognita: The Edge of the World. Yesterday I found out that Rush is finally releasing a new album called Clockwork Angels. And they’...

For the amused and curious: watch the original.