Now that Second Sight has been released, it’s time to take Tabitha and her crew on a blog tour to find some interesting websites and have some fun. What better place to begin than Fantasy Book Critic, a mighty fantasy book review site in the States. They produce in-depth critiques of the books they read and they’re not afraid to slate the books they don’t like. I follow their reviews on Goodreads to keep up to date with the latest developments in fantasy.
Developing second sight, with one eye on reality and one eye on ... somewhere else
After completing their book review of Second Sight, they kindly invited me to be a guest author on their website, so I posted something today about the value of creative writing, how the search for magic affects my writing method, and what I’m looking for in the fantasy novels that I read.
You’re going to read another fantasy novel? But it’s not true. What’s the point? By this dictum, fantasy novels fail spectacularly. Not only are the people invented; the whole world is. There will often be magic. Magic? Didn’t we emerge from that darkness when Davy turned on the light bulb?
But what if it was true?
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