Baba Ali Research (Book Secrets): Open Sesame
Notes from my time writing “Baba Ali and the Clockwork Djinn” and fun tidbits. This is definitely a “Book Secret.” :) Most people know “Open Sesame” from their own experiences or childhood...
View ArticleLabyrinth’s Archivist Research (Book Secrets): The Great Library of Alexandria
I always tell people I love libraries. In fact, I love libraries so much, I married a librarian. Honestly, there’s something about a place (and people) who set such value on knowledge. That it is...
View ArticleLabyrinth’s Archivist (Book Secrets): Hypatia
Remember when I said that the Great Archive in the Labyrinth’s Archivist grew out of the Great Library of Alexandria? Here is one very concrete example to show that this wasn’t just via inspiration....
View ArticleLabyrinth’s Archivist (Book Secrets): Ful
This world in the Labyrinth I wanted very much to mirror parts of Middle Eastern culture. I wanted it to have the sounds and smells that are almost but not quite the same as a souq in Egypt, Syria, or...
View ArticleLabyrinth’s Archivist Research (Book Secrets): The Great Libraries…PLURAL
Notes from my time writing “The Labyrinth’s Archivist” and fun tidbits. I’d modeled the Great Archive in The Labyrinth’s Archivist after the Great Library of Alexandria (as I mentioned in my last Book...
View ArticleLabyrinth’s Archivist Research (Book Secrets): The Ideas for the Cover that...
So last month I posted a lovely picture of the cover to The Labyrinth’s Archivist. This month I thought I’d share some of the concepts and sample images that I sent to Falstaff Books. You see, they...
View ArticleLabyrinth’s Archivist Research (Book Secrets): Cordyceps
Notes from my time writing “The Labyrinth’s Archivist” and fun tidbits. . Melehti struggled to read the word. “Or…no, opt…no, Ophi…Ophiocor—” “Cordyceps?” Azulea completed. She sat bolt upright....
View ArticleLabyrinth’s Archivist Research (Book Secrets): Cordyceps II
Notes from my time writing “The Labyrinth’s Archivist” and fun tidbits. Hopefully you read my first Cordyceps post and so know what it is and how it was incorporated into The Labyrinth’s Archivist....
View ArticleLabyrinth’s Archivist Research (Book Secrets) – Cordyceps III
Notes from my time writing “The Labyrinth’s Archivist” and fun tidbits. Video of a cordyceps infection. I put this in a separate post because it is definitely disturbing. WARNING: Watch at your own...
View ArticleLabyrinth’s Archivist Research (Book Secrets): Braille in a Fantasy World
Notes from my time writing “The Labyrinth’s Archivist” and fun tidbits. Azulea lives in a culture and a family where knowledge and information is revered; where mapmaking and reading and writing is...
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