by Taylor Munsell | Jun 18, 2024 | The Underline
Lisa Williams Kline is joining us today to talk about her novel, Ladies’ Day. Here’s a description: Heartache is par for the course. Fifteen years after her troubled daughter Julie ran away from home, Beth Sawyer stumbles across a newspaper photograph of an...
by Taylor Munsell | Apr 16, 2024 | The Underline
Christine Ma-Kellums is joining us today to talk about her novel, The Band. Here’s a description: In The Band, a Korean boy band at the apex of global dominion suddenly finds one of its members cancelled after a controversial solo drudges up ancient ethnic rivalries,...
by Taylor Munsell | Jan 16, 2024 | Writing
In fantasy, magic is a given. It’s expected as part of the genre. But magic can do just as much for the characters in your story as it does for the world you’re building. In the realm of fantasy, magic serves as more than just a plot device. Used...
by Taylor Munsell | Jan 10, 2024 | Writing
Magic systems are an essential piece of fantasy storytelling. Even in low fantasy stories, having a magic system is something that’s necessary for the genre of fantasy. Even the Cambridge Dictionary defines fantasy fiction as “a type of story or literature...
by Taylor Munsell | Aug 28, 2023 | Writing
Picture this: you, the wordsmith, have penned the final line of your fantastical tale, basking in the glow of creative accomplishment. But hold onto your quill, for your journey has just begun. Welcome to the realm of editing and revising, a challenging odyssey that...
