David B Coe

Dark Eyes

Faith Hunter

Blood Cross

A J Hartley

The Mask of Atreus

Misty Massey

Mad Kestrel

C E Murphy

House of Cards

Snap Thy Holy Fingers

I love movies and books about the mystical nature of religion. Constantine, Stigmata, The Seventh Seal, The Prophecy…I just cannot resist them. The other day I watched a movie trailer for Legion, in which God sends his angels to exterminate the world’s population. The archangel Michael (played by the wonderful Paul Bettany) [...]

With Worldbuilding, Every Detail Counts

In a comment to my post last week one of our readers (Thanks Alan!) asked about the level of detail we put into our worldbuilding. The question, I think, was prompted by my description of the details I put into my character development, and in many ways I consider the background work I do [...]

Thoughts from a testing lab

I’m working in a testing lab for the next two weeks, overseeing the testing computers and resetting them when they go wrong (which they do several times each hour.) For example, a student called me over a few minutes ago to look at his screen. There was an equation to solve, and the [...]

Friday Fun: Joshua Palmatier!

Happy Friday, everyone! Please join me in welcoming Joshua Palmatier to the blog today! *wild applause*

Hey, everyone! I first want to thank everyone here at Magical Words for the guest blogging invite. Hopefully I’ll have something important to say. Or at least something of interest.

First, an introduction: My name [...]

We have a winner!

It was a tricky contest, and there were a lot of close guesses, but at the last minute, someone read the hints and pulled it out. So put your hands together, people, for our winner…. Beatriz! 

She correctly guessed that it was Faith, David, Catie and Misty.  Beatriz, I’ll get in touch offlist to [...]