Getting on the Wagon

How can books leech off the continuing success of open-world games? The answer is simple: Lengthy tower-climbing segments followed by even longer descriptions of everything in the vicinity. People love that stuff, no matter what was said in your fiction workshop.

The Temperature of Today

No longer hot: Verily
Scalding hot: In sooth

Popular Elements in Fantasy and Scifi

At this juncture I must remind everyone that Star Wars has knights in it. Arthurian stories also have knights. Is this a coincidence? When it comes right down to it, 100% of those two popular series have knights. Join the knight wave! Get A Bundling of Knightly Deeds on Kindle today!

The Next Big Fad

Mummycore!

I don't know what that means, but the first person who figures it out will make a mint. Big old scarab on the cover, author quotations about how this is the finest in mummycore, the whole shebang.