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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

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BFS Online: Crafting Characters – Readings

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

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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 WEAVERS OF ALAMAXA by Hadeer Elsbai

Giorgina Shukry is now a fugitive wanted for the use of magic and, as of two days ago, a prison

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PJ AND THE PARANORMAL PURSUERS: THE PHANTOMS OF PITTENWEEM By Jacqui Dempster

The second book in a young adult series sees PJ and his friends (the titular Paranormal Pursuers)

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THE SPICE GATE by Prashanth Srivatsa

Amir was born with the spicemark on his neck, condemning him to a life as a bowler of Raluha, a

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ROADS OF DESTINY and Other Tales of Alternative Histories and Parallel Realms, ed by Alasdair Richmond

Ever since people told each other stories, there has been a fascination with imagined other worlds.

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Key Lime Sky by Al Hess

The premise of Key Lime Sky is fairly simple. One day, a UFO crashed near a small town in Wyoming.

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Guillotine by Delilah S. Dawson

Dez Lane dreams of being a fashion designer, but is finding it hard to get a foot in the door.

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