By Helen Jacey
Another excellent resource from MWP, The Woman In The Story, while aimed at screenwriters, will help anyone to write better female characters. But this is not a quick wash and brush-up of the female myth, although those elements are present, rather Jacey explores female characters from several perspectives taking into changes and [...]
By K J Parker
This was my first K J Parker book and I’ll state right now, it won’t be my last. The Folding Knife is the story of Bassianus Severus, Basso for short, a precocious boy and son of the First Citizen of the Republic of Vesani. Basso grows up and takes over [...]
When we left Nights Of Viljamur, Chancellor Urtica had successfully seized control of the throne but Rika, the rightful heir, and her sister Eir had managed to escape execution and flee the city in the company of tutor, dancer, swordsman and petty criminal Randur and his old friend Denlin. As we begin City Of [...]
The world of screenwriting books is roughly split into two categories. In category one you have the standards, the books from acknowledged gurus like Syd Field and Robert McKee that espouse traditional 3-act structure and the major story elements that go into those three acts, and then there’s category two…basically, all the others. [...]
Authun, mighty warrior, king of the northern vikings and descendant of the god Odin is cursed to sire only female offspring because, supposedly, Odin fears the strength a son of Authun would possess. But Authin will not be denied an heir and, acting on a prophecy of the witches of the Troll Wall, [...]
I’ve never been the biggest Kim Stanley Robinson fan, and having read the Arthur C Clarke nominated ‘Galileo’s Dream’ I couldn’t see that changing any time soon, but I’ve had this book sitting unread on my shelves for a few years and after taking some stick for clearly lacking the good taste, refinement and education [...]
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