Harris Hume Books

10/12/2019

If you've ever been curious about writing your own magic system, this is for you:

An introductory guide to writing magic systems in fantasy fiction.

16/11/2019

It's always so lovely and humbling when readers go out of their way to leave a review (especially a glowing one): https://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/reviews/B07XJLBWFF/ref=cm_cr_arp_mb_viewopt_srt?ie=UTF8&sortBy=recent&pageNumber=1

12/11/2019

Hard to doubt that WATCHMEN on HBO has been a worthy successor to the original so far. The writers haven't been afraid to challenge the audience and that alone shows how much respect they have for their viewers.

Part of what makes Watchmen so fascinating is its status as a sequel set many years in the wake of the seminal graphic novel. While that means we get to examine legacy characters like Laurie Blake and Adrian Veidt in new lights, it means there’s a whole set of new people to be intrigued by—and o...

24/10/2019

A must for anyone venturing outside their immediate mental surroundings

A term that has picked up steam in recent years is “cultural appropriation”. In my rough understanding, this denotes someone using concepts, ideas, or elements from another culture for their own pu…

24/10/2019

A little bit of thought on what makes a good audiobook to listen to while walking around

I love walking. Literally the only fitness goal I have is to be able to, if I hate everything about my life badly enough, go out the door and walk until I get to another country. (To be clear, I& #8…

24/10/2019

Okay, another one of these but this one is equally important as the last FH share!

24/10/2019

For a medievalist like myself, it doesn’t get much better than Deborah Harkness’s A Discovery of Witches. Both the internationally bestselling trilogy and the newly adapted TV show have many of the conventions of a kickass fantasy story. There’s a 1,500-year-old vampire, a powerful witch who c...

24/10/2019

This is one for every fantasy writer's toolkit

Toby Frost talks about ways in which writers can draw from reality to make their fantasy worlds more distinctive.

24/10/2019

Loved this!

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24/10/2019

You've got to admire that Joe Hill could've easily rested on his dad's name but decided not to

Interview with JOE HILL Rob B October 24, 2017 0 CommentJoe Hill was kind enough to take some time out of his schedule to participate in this email interview with me. Special thanks to his publicist at William Morrow, Eliza Rosenberry for making this happen.Let’s get right into it….These stories...

24/10/2019

Indeed.

We’ve just said goodbye to June, month of q***r visibility and pride (and gender-nonconforming visibility and pride, too—which many people (but not all) feel belongs under the umbrella of “q***r”, and for sake of conciseness, I’m going to group the terms together here), in 2019, and I’m ...

24/10/2019

We may soon be feeling witched out.....

There’s never been a shortage of TV witches, but there’s a distinct boom lately with shows like Charmed, Chilling Adventures of Sabrina and American Horror Story: Apocalypse. Freeform, home to Siren and Shadowhunters, is jumping on the trend with yet another addition to its “edgy-YA-supernatur...

24/10/2019

Ooo...

Welcome back to the Lovecraft reread, in which two modern Mythos writers get girl cooties all over old Howard’s sandbox, from those who inspired him to those who were inspired in turn. This week, w…

24/10/2019

MAGIC FOR LIARS looks amazing

I still remember finishing Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows in the middle of the night in summer 2007, crying as I turned the final page, mostly out of the catharsis of a solid series ending. H…

24/10/2019

Freaky, but great use of historical backdrops.

A horror game from South Korean developers ROI Games and Gachyon Soft, White Day: A Labyrinth Named School is notable in being one of the few games released in the States I know of that has the Korean War as its backdrop. It also has the reputation for being one of the most terrifying games ever dev...

24/10/2019

Got to love clever mashups...

Sometimes the things that go bump in the night are real, and they’re looking for you… We’re excited to share the cover for The Twisted Ones, a horror novel by T. Kingfisher (the H…