Tag: Fantasy
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What I Don’t Do
Many professional authors will tell you what they do. This isn’t my default. Via Negativa shaped my way of life more deeply than Via Positiva. Instead, I’m going to talk about what I don’t do. I don’t do genre conventions. The book market has its genres, and every genre has its tropes. Readers and writers…
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The 2026 EPIC Indie Summer Sale Is Live!
150 indie SFF books. Many are $0.99. The rest are free. Welcome to the 2026 EPIC Indie Summer sale! Participating this year is a crop of promising SFF talent, as well as veterans of the indie SFF scene, including John C Wright, Declan Finn, and Carlos Carrasco. Needless to say, I am also part of…
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Saga of the Forgotten Warrior: A Forgettable Saga
(Credit: Kurt Miller) I don’t like Larry Correia’s Saga of the Forgotten Warrior. I realise this is an unpopular opinion to hold. This has nothing to do with the author’s politics. It has nothing to do with his personality either. And it is only tangentially related to him picking social media fights with everyone in…
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The Black Friday Cyber Monday Based Book Sale is On!
Cheap books! Free books! And most importantly, based books! The Based Black Friday Cyber Monday Book Sale is live! With over 100 books from top and emerging talent, the sale offers the finest in non-woke fiction. For one week only, enjoy a myriad of books at only $0.99 each, or free! Featured authors include James Alderdice, Hawkings Austin, Henry Brown,…
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The Based Summer Book Sale is Live!
The Based Summer Book Sale is here again! Support your favourite authors and take a stand against woke message fiction by getting great books from new and emerging talent at $0.99 or free! Participating authors include Kyle Adams, Tony Andarian, M.D. Boncher, V.A. Boston, Henry Brown, Timo Burnham, Jacob Calta, Blake Carpenter, Matthew J. Carran, Paul…
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The Hard Limit of Cultivation Fiction
Cultivation fantasy, progression fantasy, and similar stories come with a built-in hard limit. The plot is predicated on the main character becoming increasingly stronger. Many stories explicitly call it out as a selling point. Once the MC hits the hard limit imposed by the setting the story must end, or become stagnant. And because the…