The release of Pirates & Swashbucklers, the anthology featuring my short story “Relvan’s Rescue,” quickly approaches. I’m not the only author with a tale of daring adventure included, however. I share the table of contents with several other names you may or may not know. I wanted to discover more about my fellow contributors, so [...]
Pirates & Swashbucklers Interview with Alva J. Roberts
Filed under Interviews on August 26, 2011
Tagged: Alva J. Roberts, Pirates & Swashbucklers, Pulp Empire, pulp fiction, Relvan's Rescue, Robert Jordan
The purpose of a prologue
Filed under Trends & Tropes on January 9, 2007
Tagged: Maiden of Pain, prologues, Robert Jordan, Shattered Amulet, Wheel of Time
Prologues are developing into a pet peeve of mine. I’m reading Knife of Dreams, and Jordan once again starts off with a 100-page prologue. Why wasn’t this a chapter? Somewhere along the line, I came up with a pretty specific definition of what a prologue was. It is not based on any dictionary definition, as [...]
15 Things about books and me
Filed under Trivia on December 15, 2005
Tagged: Bible, Dragonlance, Dungeons & Dragons, Forgotten Realms, Hardy Boys, Harry Potter, Lord of the Rings, memes, Narnia, Robert Jordan, Shannara, Star Wars, Terry Brooks, Wheel of Time
I don’t normally participate in memes, but I’ve seen this one on quite a few author blogs and it’s definitely topical. 1. According to my mother, I came home after the first day of kindergarten, plopped down on the couch with a book, and started to cry after only a few moments of flipping through [...]
Big Wheel keeps on turning
Filed under Soapbox on April 20, 2004
Tagged: Robert Jordan, Wheel of Time
This is not going to be your typical Robert Jordan bash. There won’t be any health-related jokes or calls to boycott the series. I just wanted to share my thoughts on this seemingly never-ending series. Many of you have probably already heard that the next Wheel of Time novel won’t even really be a Wheel [...]
