Tag: Brandon Sanderson

  • Writing Advice from Brandon Sanderson

    Writing Advice from Brandon Sanderson

    Witness a dramatic fantasy landscape come to life in this atmospheric artwork inspired by classic epic fantasy covers.

  • Just Finished: Tress

    Just Finished: Tress

    Brandon Sanderson gets a lot of attention these days, and deservedly so. Not only is he a prolific writer, he is just an all around nice guy. Tress of the Emerald Sea is the first of his Secret Projects he wrote during the Covid lockdown. This one he wrote for his wife. It’s a great…

  • I haven’t read a book in two months!

    I haven’t read a book in two months!

    Renegades by Marissa Meyer. The White Dragon by Anne McCaffrey. The Way of Kings by Brandon Sanderson. I started all of these books earlier this year and I still haven’t finished them. Why? I’ve been writing, writing, and writing. For the first three or four months of 2022, I concentrated on finishing my novella Traption.…

  • Friday’s Findings: Fandom.com

    Friday’s Findings: Fandom.com

    I’ve been using Fandom.com (formerly known as Wikia.com) to help me in my reading and writing endeavors. Fandom is a wiki hosting service which hosts wikis on entertainment and pop culture, such as books, games, movies, television and more. I find Fandom helpful in my reading in several ways. First, if I’ve been reading a…

  • Some Books I Read this Year: Will I Continue Reading These Fantasy Authors?

    Some Books I Read this Year: Will I Continue Reading These Fantasy Authors?

    2020, a unique year in Earth history, had one silver lining for me. While I’ve had to wear a mask for most of this year and I’ve had some friends and family suffer from COVID-19, this year provided some great fantasy reads. And if there was ever a year I needed to escape through reading,…

  • Not Ashamed to Be a Learner

    Not Ashamed to Be a Learner

    If a job existed in which I could go and sit in lectures at a university all day-and get paid for it-that would be my ideal job. Yes, that is how weird I am. I loved college. I also loved teaching at a college for ten years. Several years ago, when I took the Strengths…

  • My Reading: Past, Present and Future 08.09.19

    My Reading: Past, Present and Future 08.09.19

    Past: The Emperor’s Soul (audio) by Brandon Sanderson Well, I am no longer a Sanderson virgin. I’ve completed my reading of his short novel, The Emperor’s Soul, and I’m ready to explore more by this writer. This is a standalone story with an interesting twist at the end. Ready to jump into the Mistborn series.…

  • My Reading: Past, Present and Future 07.17.18

    My Reading: Past, Present and Future 07.17.18

    Past: Only Human (ebook) by Sylvain Neuvel I suppose politics are an inherent theme in science fiction. Current global politics rears its controversial head in several SF novels published in 2018, one of which is Only Human. * OH is the third and seemingly final book in The Themis Files series. Neuvel wraps up his…