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Mark Tierno

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Lamia Picture Update

Hi folks, just thought I’d share anotrher update with you all. Sasha- one of the two artists who drew the Volume One cover and are now working on the Volume 2 cover, is also working on a little portrait of a dancing Lamia that appears in a bar scene towards the end of Volume One. …

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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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Some Preliminary Sketches

Well, as I may have earlier announced, the cover for Maldene Volume II is under way, but more than that, is my favorite artists are tossing in a few other things. I’d recently created a more detailed and colorized map of the world of Maldene then showed it around to a couple of friends, including …

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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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Free Ebook Offer Has Come To An End!

Well, it had to happen some time. The Free Maldene Volume One Ebook Offer has at last come to an end. To all those who downloaded a copy, enjoy the read; I know you will. For the rest, just watch out for what else may be coming down from the World of Maldene. And if …

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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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