March 8, 2020

Please note this is a guest post I originally wrote for the fabulous Mary Anne’s blog, the Coffee Pot Book Club. You can find the original article here: https://maryanneyarde.blogspot.com/2020/01/fantasy-author-laura-maybrooke-is.html Writing fantasy gives us access to fantastical worlds—ones unburdened by the nitty-gritty details of reality. That is not to say a fantasy world can function without…

August 9, 2019

Regardless of what you think of the content of that infamous J. K. Rowling interview, her words concerning the intended plot of the story hits home with me. I feel like it must be something every writer sometimes struggles with. Sometimes characters take a life of their own and walk away from you. In that…