Blood and Bloom has successfully been Kickstarted and is printed and will be available on Amazon shortly, as well as on this website. The Kickstarter was a success, though nowhere near the success that Worldbuilding Blueprints was, which makes sense. My audience is of course primarily world builders, and so most of them are interested in my world building writing, not in my fiction writing. The process of creating a Kickstarter for a fiction book is somewhat different from the process of...

Recently, I’ve been immersed in creating a post-apocalypse world for a mermaid story, which has sparked a lot of thoughts about apocalyptic events and their aftermath. I previously made a mini series of videos on this topic, and I’ll link them here for anyone interested. However, after building my own post-apocalyptic world and reading John Gwynne’s Bloodsworn series—also set in a post-apocalypse—I wanted to update my reflections. One of the most fascinating aspects of crafting a...

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