Letters from the Arcanist
James D. MillsJames D. Mills is the mind behind The Arcanist: Fantasy Publishing. Letters from the Arcanist is his unfiltered column on the business and craft of writing excellent independent Fantasy.
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S&S and the Collapse of Society
Typically I prefer my Sword & Sorcery to be grounded in reality, to exhibit a gritty realism so that the reader is unsure whether the protagonist can actually prevail. Then I read Thongor and the Wizard of Lemuria (review here), which convi...
Folly, Laid Before You
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Greetings, traveler,
This was easily the most difficult chapter to write in the entire book; I won’t speak much as to why, just that its one that bites a bit too close to old pains; if it bite...
Jung Adult Fantasy
Young Adult Fantasy (or New Adult) is often disparaged by the broader Fantasy books community, and much of that criticism is well-founded. YA Dark Fantasy, King of the Forgotten Darkness by Erik Goodwyn, does not fall into the those common...
The Case for Respendial
When I learned that ’s final anthology Neither Beg Nor Yield featured a Sword & Sorcery tale penned by Steven Erikson, I don’t think I’ve ever hit Amazon’s “Buy Now” button faster. Erikson is a formative author for me; his Malazan series p...
Wards Against Nightmares
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Greetings, traveler,
This chapter introduces some of the fun nuance behind the mad wizard’s epistolary narration. The guy experiences the tale by dreaming from the POV of other characters who...
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James D. Mills is an author, editor, and the mind behind The Arcanist: Fantasy Publishing. Author of SOIL and Ashen Rider.
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