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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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Fyneshade by Kate Griffin

Writing a novel with a distinctly unlikeable main protagonist can be a bit of a tightrope: make

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WARRIOR OF THE WIND by Suyi Davies Okungbowa

For too many years, the idea of fantasy was to follow the Tolkeinesk route. While there might be

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X-Men ‘97

It seems hard to imagine that back in 1992, ‘The X-Men’ were a pretty obscure

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The House That Horror Built by Christina Henry

Harry is a lifelong horror film fan, so when she gets a job cleaning for renowned horror director

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The Waking of Angantyr by Marie Brennan

The Waking of Angantyr has everything going for it: Vikings, berserkers, blood magic, Norse gods,

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Among the Living by Tim Lebbon

Among the Living is a fast-paced thriller set in the Deep North. Climate change is altering our

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