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BFS Online: Crafting Characters – Interview with R.S.A. Garcia

BFS Chair Shona Kinsella interviews Nebula and Sturgeon Award winning author R.S.A. Garcia

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BFS Online: Crafting Characters – Heroes and Villains

Stories are driven by conflict, by the battle between good and evil, and fought in the morally

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BFS Online: Crafting Characters – Supporting Cast

You know who your protagonist and antagonist are, but what about the rest? How do you create

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BFS Online: Crafting Characters – Animals & Environments as Characters

How do you build a character that isn’t human – or humanoid? What if they don’t even have a

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BFS Online: Crafting Characters – Readings

We have six readings from a range of authors – fantasy, science fiction and horror – to help

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Why I Love Buffy – Even Though She’s Not Black!

Connection. Disconnection. Reconnection. These are themes that run through all of us. Yes,

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The Bell Witches by Lindsey Kelk

The Bell Witches marks a turn to a new genre by Lindsey Kelk, who is well known for her “chick

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Thunder City by Philip Reeve

I’m delighted that Philip Reeve has produced another MORTAL ENGINES novel. This one is

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Seaborn by Michael Livingston

When she was young, Bela became Belakané, Hero of the Harbour. The windborn had come with flying

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Les Vacances by Phil Sloman

Elizabeth and Frank have a familiar life. They have lived in the same house for their whole married

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Those Beyond The Wall by Micaiah Johnson

The blurb on the back cover of Those Beyond The Wall doesn’t do it justice. Reading it might lead

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The Aeronaut’s Windlass by Jim Butcher

When an author produces a series of books featuring a popular set of characters that enchants the

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