Well, fresh in from the artists is a little update of the in-progress cover for Maldene Volume 2. Now, obviously since Volume 2 is the second half of the same novel, the cover is going to be somewhat similar. Since the second half of this first book revolves around a certain set of old ruins, …
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Maldene Behind The Scenes: My Inspiration
Okay, so some might ask just where i get my ideas for some of this stuff. After all, Maldene is quite the complex and detailed world, with about as much variety as an actual world. Surely I must have some inspiration from a few things, right? Well of course. So consider this article as just …
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Maldene Behind The Scenes: The Harbor Of The World
One of the more significant places on Maldene is the famed Harbor Of The World, so named because nearly every culture on the planet can meet one another at the Harbor, even if they’ve never heard of one another anywhere else before. A tropical port that I liken to being about the size of the …
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Maldene Behind The Scenes: Why So Many Characters?
Just the first Maldene novel has somewhere around 8 main characters and a dozen or so more secondary ones, and later novels only add to that number. In fact, by the time all 13 novels are finished, the number has topped some 250 characters. So, why so many characters? When you have such a vast …
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Maldene Behind The Scenes How Deep Do I Plot? And Why?
One might ask, that with a 13-book series, how deep do I plot things? Well, I can tell you that by the time you’ve reached Chapter One of the first book you’ve already missed clues to major plot elements for the next two books. In Maldene IV I have a segment that only has its …
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Volume TWO!!!
the deal has been set. The cover-art for Maldene Volume 2 is now underway. this means, of course, that you should be seeing the second half of the first Maldene novel quite soon after that. But wait, there’s more. I’d posted a while back about a full-color world map in the works. Well, Sasha and …
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Maldene Behind The Scenes: The Strip Desert
On the world of Maldene, on the continent of Degaloth, there is a piece of terrain called The Strip Desert. So named because of its shape. A desert thousands of miles long that divides the fields and farmlands to the north from the jungles to the south, it keeps its fifteen-hundred mile width pretty uniform …
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Maldene Behind The Scenes: Why Mix Magic And Science
I have stated before that Maldene is a world of magic AND science, a mix of fantasy and science fiction, but why would I try this hard-to-do combination? After all, a few others have tried and it usually comes out looking pretty stupid. Well, the short of it is that I love both Science Fiction …
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Another Maldene Article In The Netverse
Well, seems as Right Column Media has posted my little article about Maldene right here. Give it a read then check out the rest of their site.
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Just Been Interviewed
Well, today I was just interviewed about my book. On video no less, for someone’s web site. I don’t have the link yet, nor the date it will be active, but will keep you all updated when I know more.
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