Nomination and a Party—Come on Over!
I don’t know about you, but I can’t believe this year is almost at an end! Got a snack and a beverage? Good, because I have some fun stuff lined up for you! It’s time for a nomination AND a party…
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Congratulations to Our Fantasy eBook Giveaway Winners!
A Drift of Quills is happy to announce the winners of our Fantasy eBook Giveaway! Grand Prize Winner: Amy C. Runners Up: Julia M. Jacqueline M. Raquel E. Alan M. Each of the authors will contact the winners by email. Then it’s time to snuggle up with hot cocoa, Christmas goodies, and a brand new book! Merry Christmas and Happy Reading! ~From A Drift of Quills
Christmas Goodies for You!
Yes! Christmas goodies! Whatever holiday you celebrate, I have some bookish yumminess for you—and I’m excited! First I want to remind you of the Drift of Quills holiday giveaway. There will be one grand prize winner and four runners up. Have you entered the drawing yet? Be sure to hop over to the giveaway page and sign in to the Rafflecopter thingummy. (That’s an official word, right?) And then there’s the annual Fantasy Sci-Fi Network Christmas Sale coming this weekend and running through the end of the month. Check us out here: Fantasy Sci-Fi Network. But wait! There’s more! We’re also […]
Books We Love (#4)
Welcome to the Friday Feature of our Fantasy writers group, A Drift of Quills! We are back again with some book love to share with you! When I was a little girl, about ten years old, one of my book-loving big sisters (Hi, Diana!) gave me the book Scarlet Sails, by Alexander Green/Grin (Aleksandr Stepanovich Grinevskii in his native Russia). I knew nothing at all of his popularity in his country and would probably not have been impressed at such a tender age. Nothing about the book cover lured me to explore between the covers. But… it was a book. […]
Fictional Holiday Fun
Hello, and happy First Friday! Can you believe the year is already half over? If time flies when you’re having fun, then we must be having a blast! This time last year we chatted about what freedom means to us and how the topic figures (or not!) in our novels. Fun, right? This time A Drift of Quills is talking about fictional holidays and celebrations we use in our novels. It’s good to rule. I love the depth of creation behind world-building: the nitty-gritty, the if-this-then-that, the marriage of reality to imagination, the glimpses into the author’s head. Adding holidays to […]
The Stuff Between the Lines: Fact or Fiction?
Hello, and happy First Friday! A Drift of Quills is digging into our very souls this time, unearthing our philosophical innards. The question of the month is: “Is there any particular code, belief, or faith that inspires our writing? How and why?” Yes, we’re getting all existential on ya… Read on to see how that looks in writing! In all honesty, I don’t think the limited space of this format is up to the task of dealing with the subject. The best we can do is skim the surface of the tender, personal area that is our beliefs, codes, or faith. […]
Dreams, Schemes, or Circus Clowns?
It’s a First Friday again! A Drift of Quills comes together again, this time to air our lofty opinions about dreams in fiction. Are they good or bad? And joining us today we have author Gregory S. Close. You might remember him from the book I recently reviewed over here. Please give him a warm welcome! GREGORY S. CLOSE Author of In Siege of Daylight, Book 1 of Light, Dark & Shadow Gregory’s website A dream sequence can create an ethereal mood of otherworldliness, reveal hidden truths, foreshadow victory or doom, or even represent a second, hidden realm that parallels the […]
Women, Violence, and Fantasy/Sci-Fi
Welcome to the First Friday Feature of our Fantasy writers group, A Drift of Quills! The Quills come together this month to tackle a controversial question: Does violence by or against women add authenticity to fantasy/sci-fi tales? Does violence by or against women add authenticity to fantasy/sci-fi tales? Fantasy and sci-fi—No, fiction authors (at least those I know) write to entertain. We write about people. People, both men and women, are often violent, cruel, abusive, and criminally selfish. Our world has a long history of them, from Cain to Bashar-al Assad, from Jezebel to Griselda Blanco. Fictional worlds are rife […]
Books We Love
Welcome to the Friday Feature of our Fantasy writers group, A Drift of Quills! We Quills get together once a month to chat up aspects of reading and writing. Here we are again with a few of our book besties, applauding Stephen King’s advice that (read a lot, write a lot) Read on to see what’s carrying the Quills away! My grandmother used to call me “Robin the Hood” when I was very little. I was understandably confused—and then I learned about the legendary Robin Hood. The nickname became something of a badge of honor, though I have no idea […]
Bookshelf Scavenger Hunt!
It’s the first Friday of a whole new year! Hello, and Happy New Year to You! As usual for the first-Friday-of-the-month, A Drift of Quills comes together to deliver you something wonderfully bookish—and this time we’re doing a scavenger hunt! You might have seen some others around the cyber world, but we decided to make up our own. We’re adventurous that way! Rummaging through my bookshelves (both physical and digital) makes me feel like a dragon admiring its treasure. I have silver and gold, precious jewels, priceless collections of beautiful words at my very fingertips! The hardest part of this […]