Tag: fantasy
group name: bardsandsages
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July 02, 2007 10:06 PM EDT --
If you haven't been by our website in a while, we recently updated our submission guidelines and announced two major projects for the 2007-2008 publishing year. The first project is a trio of . . .
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January 19, 2009 04:43 PM EST --
Our Art Director Jet Amago is finishing up the art for our newest Karma product, Karmic Places: Blacktip Bay . Blacktip Bay is a former pirate cove that has evolved over the decades into a thriving . . .
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July 12, 2007 09:57 AM EDT --
The alignment test posted by a certain someone, or more accurately the wrongness in the alignments assigned to certain characters by that test, got me to thinking. I can't off the top of my head recall . . .
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August 07, 2007 03:20 PM EDT --
Ever since the concept was first introduced I have been enamored of Spellfire. There was simply something appealing about being able to hurl bolts of raw magical energy... particularly considering the . . .
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July 07, 2007 04:36 AM EDT --
As I was working on my article on genre emulation in roleplaying games I started to think about examples of game elements that are a certain way simply because that's the way they have always been. . . .
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May 22, 2009 03:40 PM EDT --
American Gods
by Neil Gaiman
(4/5 stars)
I mentioned this in my review of "Good Omens" but just to recap, I came by this book after reading Terry Pratchett's fabulous Discworld series. From . . .
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March 04, 2008 01:01 PM EST --
According to posts at Troll Lord Games , Gary Gygax passed away in his home.
He is the co-creator of Dungeons & Dragons and will always be known as the father of roleplaying games. . . .
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June 12, 2009 02:51 PM EDT --
A Heart Lies Within Us
By Steven LeBree
(5/5 stars)
The life of Lucas Colby is never easy or simple. Shortly after the turn of the century, Lucas's parents travel from West Virginia to Ohio, . . .
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January 03, 2008 03:45 PM EST --
ENCHANTING THE LADY is now available in bookstores, Walmart, Kmart and Target!
ENCHANTING THE LADY, the first book in the exciting new RELICS OF MERLIN fantasy romance series, hits stores . . .
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August 29, 2009 09:54 AM EDT --
The Long Walk
By Stephen King (writing as Richard Bachman)
(4/5 stars)
This was the first Stephen King book I'd ever read. Some "friends" recommended that it was one of his best, so I thought . . .
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May 10, 2009 12:22 AM EDT --
I've always considered myself a Star Trek fan but not a Trekkie. The distinction in my mind is that I've watched the shows (though I tuned out most of the "Enterprise" prequel . . .
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April 30, 2008 09:20 AM EDT --
In order for fantasy literature to work, the reader must be able to suspend belief. We know that, scientifically speaking, there are no dragons or vampires or other supernatural creatures, yet . . .
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July 10, 2009 04:40 PM EDT --
Someday my metaphor will find me lonely, stooped in my alcove room How can I know for sure this is my metaphor, expressly fit to guide my destiny? Will the hand of fate grab my metaphoric testicles . . .
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October 16, 2007 10:19 AM EDT --
OK, so I'm on a kobold kick again. Here is a little short story for all the kobold loving folks out there.
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Mino was having a bad day.
First, Grillik had dropped the . . .
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October 31, 2009 01:13 PM EDT --
Bards and Sages Publishing announces the winners of its first Bards & Sages Quarterly Reader’s Choice Story Awards. This award highlights the best of each issue, and honors the writers that . . .
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September 30, 2009 11:23 AM EDT --
It was probably a month or two ago when I was reading The Sports Guy on ESPN and he proclaimed "Almost Famous" as the greatest movie of the 00s. My first reaction was, "Was that movie even released . . .
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October 01, 2009 10:57 AM EDT --
The Thursday Writing Essentials topic today is rants and I can't think of a more fun rant I've written than this one about the book, The Time Traveler's Wife . I wrote it in 2003 and since then . . .
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December 02, 2008 02:38 PM EST --
Hogfather
(A Discworld Novel)
by Terry Pratchett
(4/5 stars)
In the fictional Discworld, which is carried by four elephants atop a giant turtle floating through space, what we would consider . . .
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January 22, 2009 11:04 AM EST --
I was looking at the Oscar nominations on my local paper's website. Here's the list of Best Picture nominees:
“The Curious Case of Benjamin Button”
“Frost/Nixon”
“Milk”
“The . . .
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January 28, 2008 12:57 PM EST --
If any of you live in Arizona, or are visiting for the SuperBowl, I will be signing books at the Glendale Chocolate Affaire in Glendale Arizona on February 1 st and 2 nd , from 7-8:00 pm. I will be . . .
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