by Kaitlyn Price Ah Fantasy. My favorite genre. My love for fantasy began at an early age with movies like The Dark Crystal, Labyrinth, and The Neverending Story. The worlds created in these movies were so unlike reality that I was instantly enamored. How did one imagine such vastly different […]

By Deborah L. Brewer Perhaps you’d like to give your mind a little workout—a sudoku for writers, if you will. Let me introduce the triolet, a delightful but somewhat tricky poetic form, in which the first line appears three times. Originating from the medieval French, the triolet’s brevity and repetition […]

by Nicole Aisling As a writer who loves dragons (and even has a series about them) I’ve been thrilled to see the resurgence in popularity. Dragons have appeared in many classic fantasy novels, from Tolkein’s The Hobbit to the hugely successful Dragonriders of Pern, which influenced how dragons are portrayed […]

By Jean Alfieri Want to Be Recognized as an Author? For some, the author’s life is a passionate side-hustle. For some, it’s our main gig. But either way, what it means to be a writer has evolved over the past decade. Gone is the life of seclusion, never entering the […]