W.A. Stanley

The Travelling City After a hundred years of watching humans make bad decisions, anyone would be sick of their job as peacekeeper. Reihan, a seaver created to deal with humans who lose control over their manifestation ab...

I proudly present a book review for The Travelling City,
Adrienne Miller's whimsical, psychedelic, dark fantasy; a book that dares to bring something new to the genre.

Playing a little catch-up...

I've been posting these on *shudder* that other site as part of the August Writing Challenge. Figure I'll post the images here too. Once the month's done, I might backtrack with those from earlier in the month, and the last time I did this.

Daughter of the Beast: Book I of the Vyshivka Trilogy “Fear not the beasts in your stories. For anything can be slain with a stout blade… and a stouter heart” When her sleepy village is RAIDED by the Vulkari, the fearsome warrior-women of the Ancie...

Today's book review for an arresting fantasy tale that takes its cues from Slavic mythology, and it has to be read to be believed.

Daughter of the Beast, by EC Greaves.

It's definitely feeling that way so far!

Ooh, no, that wouldn't. While I write most nights, my problem is often procrastinating too much beforehand. And during. 😄

Good luck with that. Night owl bad habits are the only time I get any writing done...

A picture of Alan Moore (looking less formidable than usual) with the following quote of his beside him: “The original Bardic tradition of magic was one that was entirely based upon writing and literature. And interestingly, it was much more feared than just your common or garden witch or l sorcerer. Now, if a magician puts a curse upon you, then...your hens are probably going to lay a bit funny, your child might be born with a squint. These are things that are survivable. They're not that terrible. WHEREAS... when a Bard puts a satire upon you, then that will destroy you in the eyes of your friends, in the eyes of your family, potentially in your own eyes. And—if it’s a good enough satire, if it is finely worded enough—then even two or three hundred vears after you're dead, people might still be laughing at you and your absurdity.”

Love the hell out of this. Alan Moore’s BBC Maestro course has this as a core tenet. Which…surprises no one. Anyway. My favorite excerpt about the power of the pen:

I made it to the promised land!