Darkblade Assassin is Here!
At long last, the day I’ve been waiting for has arrived: launch day! Or, more accurately, RE-launch day… Blade of the Destroyer (The Last Bucelarii Book 1) was first published...
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Fantasy Assassins Reading List
Welcome to The Ultimate Fantasy Assassins Reading List for Book Lovers If you love fantasy assassins as much as I do, you’ll probably be looking for more assassin fantasy books...
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Ultimate Guide to Villains and Antagonists: Forces of Nature
Time Distance Gravity These forces of nature are not malicious, they simply “are”, but their very existence can be a threat or obstacle to the protagonist achieving their ends, carrying...
Ultimate Guide to Villains and Antagonists: Machines
Terminators The Ultimate Computer The Matrix Humans have a very real fear of machines gaining sentience or seeking to destroy us. Machines are implacable, single-minded, and far less vulnerable than...
Ultimate Guide to Villains and Antagonists: Henchman
Jasper and Horace Pain and Panic Crabbe and Goyle Some men and women are simply content to serve, and they will gravitate to anyone stronger, richer, and more powerful than...
Ultimate Guide to Villains and Antagonists: The Disturbed
The Joker Peeta Mellark (at the end of Mockingjay) Hannibal Lecter There are many emotional, psychological, mental, and physical disorders that can turn "good" people to "bad". Physical disabilities could...
Ultimate Guide to Villains and Antagonists: Physically Corrupted
Zombies Vampires Frankenstein’s Monster These names bring to mind beings that were perhaps once human, yet were corrupted by science, magic, disease, or decay. Whether singly or in endless hordes,...
Ultimate Guide to Villains and Antagonists: Abusive Authority Figure
Dolores Umbridge Cinderella’s Stepmother Lord Raith These names speak of people in positions of authority—parents, teachers, caretakers, political superiors, religious figures—that inflict emotional, psychological, and physical abuse on the people...
Ultimate Guide to Villains and Antagonists: Authority Figure
Severus Snape President Snow Every system of law and justice These figures of authority aren’t necessarily “evil”, but they become the antagonist of the novel because they oppose the one...
Traitors' Fate: The Tale that Binds
Fancy post title, right? It's referring to the fact that Traitors' Fate connects the story of Ilanna from the Queen of Thieves series directly to the Hunter of Voramis from...
Get In on the Giveaway
The big day is finally here! Well, tomorrow… Queen of the Night Guild, the final book in the Queen of Thieves series, is hitting the digital shelves. This will be...
Ultimate Guide to Villains and Antagonists: Supernatural Forces of Evil
Demons. Dementors. The Crimson King. These names speak of one thing: supernatural forces dedicated to doing evil. Soulless, radiating evil and despair, these creatures are villains hell-bent on death, destruction,...
Ultimate Guide to Villains and Antagonists: Beast
Dracula Fafnir Every werewolf ever These names bring to mind creatures driven by a single imperative. For some, the driving force is a need to feed, while survival is the...
Child of the Night Guild Audiobook
Yes, I'm so stoked to finally say that the audiobook for Child of the Night Guild is finally live! I was so lucky to find an amazing narrator to bring...
The Next Step in My Author Journey
If you have followed me—here on my blog, on the Fantasy Fiends Podcast, social media, or my reader mail—for more than a few weeks, you'll no doubt have seen some...
Ultimate Guide to Villains and Antagonists: The Bully
Joffrey Baratheon. Dudley Dursley and Draco Malfoy. Anyone ever named Biff, Spud, or Spike. Bullies come in all shapes and sizes, but they are all the same: cruel to others,...
The Ultimate Guide to Villains and Antagonists in Fiction
I LOVE villains! Better put, I love writing villains. While the heroes are the ones we connect to in most stories, it's really the villains and antagonists that make us...