Today, please welcome my friend and fellow historical fiction author Aimie K. Runyan, whose debut historical novel Promised to the Crown releases on April 26 from Kensington Books. If creative writing classes do nothing else, they train a writer to work on a deadline and to hunt for ideas everywhere. A lot of people may scoff at trying to learn writing in a formal classroom setting, but if it weren’t for a creative writing class I took on a lark when I was in graduate school, PROMISED TO THE CROWN might not exist. I was in my last semester at Indiana University,
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Mystery and Fantasy are Like Chocolate and Peanut Butter
Please welcome fantasy author Jeff Seymour, whose newest novel, SOULWOVEN: EXILE releases this week! Mystery and Fantasy are Like Chocolate and Peanut Butter by Jeff Seymour If you’re a fantasy reader and a mystery fan, you may have noticed that mysteries crop up frequently among your swords and spells. “What’s this ring?” (The Fellowship of the Ring), “Who’s this ‘Gray King’?” (The Lies of Locke Lamora), “What’s up with these White Walkers?” (A Game of Thrones). Most of the best fantasies I read open with a mystery. Mysteries are a great way to draw somebody into a story, and in
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