Chuck Wendig: Terribleminds

Back at the end of June, 2021, I finally fulfilled a years-long ambition to start a podcast with the first episode of Page Break. I’m not sure why. I write epic fantasy novels for a living (you might know my Powder Mage epic fantasy novels), and I’m good at that and when you have such […]

It’s hard not to recognize that things are particularly bad right now. Some of it is what we already have been living through: pandemic, climate change, rising right-wing white Christian fascism. Some of it is from the tentacular outgrowths of those wretched seed-beds: Russia’s attack on Ukraine, the attack on trans kids in Texas, the […]

From a major new debut author in epic fantasy comes the first book in a trilogy where action, intrigue, and magic collide. The Justice of Kings introduces an unforgettable protagonist destined to become a fantasy icon: Sir Konrad Vonvalt, an Emperor’s Justice, who is a detective, judge, and executioner all in one. But these are dangerous times […]

(ed: Rob Hart is a former journalist, and so if you need someone to tell you how to start researching for your novel? He’s your guy. (Also, his newest, Paradox Hotel, fucking rocks. It’s slick, cinematic sci-fi noir.) Around when I was 18, I decided I wanted to write novels. I was failing out of […]

Most of us move through life hoping everything will go well and turn out exactly as we’ve imagined it. Most of us are therefore disappointed. This is even more true for characters in books, because without failure and pain and chaos, there is no story. A book in which everything goes right is exactly one […]

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