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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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Yoke of Stars by R.B. Lemberg

Yoke of Stars by R.B. Lemberg is a novella in the Birdsong universe, but it reads as a standalone.

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Hera by Jennifer Saint

The Titans have fallen, and battle is in the past. The Olympians rule and the earth heals. Hera,

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The Black Bird Oracle by Deborah Harkness

The Bishop-Clairmont family have fallen into a perfect routine of bliss, spreading their time

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RETURN OF THE DWARVES By Markus Heitz

As the title for this excellent and engaging dwarvish tale would suggest, German author Markus

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Delicious in Dungeon

Deep in the depths of a deadly dungeon, a brave adventuring party faces off against a massive red

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Toxxic by Jane Hennigan

If you read and enjoyed Moths, you’ll want to read Toxxic. There, review done. Okay, you

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