The audiobook of Creating Life (The Art of World Building, #1) is now available at iTunes, Amazon, and Audible. Running time is 5 hours and 13 minutes and it’s on sale for between $17-19. Now you can have it read Read More …
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5 More Tips for Creating Species
5 World Building Tips (Vol 1, #10): Species This is the tenth in a series of world building articles I’ll be sending you! Today’s theme is species. This will get you started, but you can read more about this in Read More …
Volume 2 TOC Updated
Now that the writing of Creating Places is largely finished and only needs editing, I’ve updated the table of contents (TOC) to reflect the final contents. This includes a new chapter on “Travel in Space” and some rearrangement of other Read More …
Creating Places on Pre-Order!
You can now pre-order the Kindle format for Creating Places (The Art of World Building, #2), which will be published on November 14, 2017. Pre-orders don’t work for other formats, unfortunately, but the book will be available in paperback and ePUB Read More …
5 More Tips for Creating Gods
5 World Building Tips (Vol 1, #9): The Gods This is the ninth in a series of world building articles! Today’s theme is the gods. This will get you started, but you can read more about this in Chapter 2, Read More …
5 Tips for Creating Undead
5 World Building Tips (Vol 1, #7): Undead This is the seventh in a series of world building articles! Today’s theme is undead. This will get you started, but you can read more about this in Chapter 7, “Creating Undead,” Read More …
Cover Art Wins Award!
The eBook cover for Creating Life has won an award from The Book Designer website. The folks at Deranged Doctor Designs did a great job on this when I hired them, as you can see for yourself!
Ed Greenwood Endorsement
I just received an endorsement from Ed Greenwood, creator of The Forgotten Realms® and dozens of other imaginary worlds: Worldbuilding—creating a fictional setting—is THE biggest job of a storyteller. It can be done badly or minimally, but doing so risks Read More …
Podcast Coming in July
I started recording The Art of World Building Podcast this month. I’ll be covering much of what’s in the three volumes but not everything (sometimes more, sometimes less). In addition to learning more about world building, you’ll have the chance Read More …
5 Tips for Creating World Figures
5 World Building Tips (Vol 1, #4): World Figures This is the fourth in a series of world building articles! Today’s theme is world figures like heroes and villains. This will get you started, but you can read more about Read More …