by DCMcElroy | Aug 12, 2022 | General
(From my Aug. 7th newsletter. To subscribe, click here. dc) Not my usual newsletter Today is Lughnasadh (on my calendar, at least), and time for another newsletter. But since there’s no interesting news on the publishing and promotion fronts here at The Manor,...
by DCMcElroy | Jul 29, 2022 | Darbas, General
“Last night I dreamed I was living on a farm — and by that, I mean a farm like what you might have seen in 1930s Kansas, as imagined in the movie The Wizard of Oz — and I had to go in to town for supplies, because I had run out of Purina Writer Chow....
by DCMcElroy | Jun 21, 2022 | General
If you’ve ever written science fiction or fantasy, you know the dilemma: How much unfamiliar language is too much? Is there downside to using too little? Call it a Goldilocks Zone question. This is a recurring issue in writing The Darbas Cycle, not because I...
by DCMcElroy | Jun 20, 2022 | General
I’ve gotten some beautifully written reviews over the years, but I wanted to share this one from Bill Thompson, the retired Book Editor at The (Charleston, S.C.) Post and Courier, where we were colleagues. I wanted Bill as a reader from the beginning, because...
by DCMcElroy | Jun 2, 2022 | General
Writing about a fantasy world requires structured imagination, but here’s the fun part: As the writer, you get to control all the variables. Living on Earth in the 21st century requires imagination, too, but we control only a few of the inputs. I grew up in an...
