Tales from the Inn – Fantasy Blog

King Arthur Cahnged the World   Ideas and Ideals A well-known quote from C. S. Lewis is “Since it is likely that children will meet cruel enemies, let them at least have heard of brave knights and heroic courage.” The fact that I am quoting it here supports the...

“Epic Fantasy Adventure with Timeless Values” Part 2 Let’s continue our discussion on branding and writing styles. We focused in on the phrase found on the top of my main webpage: “Epic Fantasy Adventure with Timeless Values” Epic Fantasy Adventure… Last time, we...

  Dragons, Elves and Heroes Faerie is a Perilous Land “I propose to speak about fairy-stories, though I am aware that this is a rash adventure. Faerie is a perilous land, and in it are pitfalls for the unwary and dungeons for the overbold. And overbold I may be...

    Real World Magic     Musings on Magic Drifting around on social media recently, I came across some musings on magic (and writing about magic) by Steven Erickson, the bestselling author of the epic fantasy series, The Malazan Book of the Fallen....

    Medieval Fantasy or Urban fantasy? I belong to a few readers’ groups on social media, just to see what others who enjoying reading fantasy are discussing. The one group asked this question: do you prefer urban or medieval fantasy? Fantasy is a broad...