Category: Worldbuilding
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Repost: Research All the Things
I’m not sure if I’m overly obsessed with research or whether I’m just really good at choosing locations and subjects for my books about which I know virtually nothing.
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Fun with firespirits – and a Fallen Queen giveaway
Today I’m blogging at Layers of Thought about creating angels. Stop by for a chance to win an ebook of The Fallen Queen. Note: I found this interpretation of a seraph online. Mine are a bit less…benevolent. ;)
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Ever wonder what Heaven looks like?
Well, according to me, it looks like this: Click map to enlarge A black and white version appears in the book, but I thought readers might enjoy seeing the original on a single page. If you’ve read The Fallen Queen, you’ll notice there are many places on the map not visited in the book. You’ll…
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Throwing Chora
So an interesting thing developed while I was writing the Queen of Heaven series. The beginning of The House of Arkhangel’sk opens on a card game. It was one of the first images I had of this world: a den of “iniquity” in heaven, where an angel of the ruling House of Arkhangel’sk, disguised as…