Friends of Fantasy

17/08/2024

More Effie! (And Lady Trilby Moth)

In this episode, our adventurers meet some of the neighbors and help a man under a gypsy curse.

09/08/2024

More Effie!

https://ljagilamplighterwright.substack.com/p/gypsie-princess-effies-logs-entry-622

03/08/2024

Efflie Log Three:

This session finds Black Hawk Enterprises is launched and is off to a successful start.

01/08/2024

Haven't posted this in a while...Roanoke, to the tune of the Modern Major General:

http://bit.ly/RachelGriffin4When otherworldly forces conspire against those she loves, Rachel Griffin must face her most desperate hour.This on top of winter...

26/07/2024

Valerie Hunt, Roanoke Academy Yearbook Photographer, shows off the MacDannans and the Darlings:

Roanoke Academy Yearbook

26/07/2024

Fun with Effie

The diary of Effie the Gypsie Princess was written by our friend Brian.

19/07/2024

Effie the Gypsy girl finally gets her journals online:
(This takes place in the Unexpected Enlightenment background.)

Once upon a time, I ran a roleplaying game where a friend kept notes in character. The notes of the character Effie started out quite dry, but as the game went along, they got funnier and funnier. I promised years ago that I would share them online. I published the first two and then, somehow, never...

14/07/2024

And we are... LIVE!

Fantastic Schools, Volume Eight

25/06/2024

Valery Hunt's photos of Dread and co:

Roanoke Academy Yearbook Project

11/06/2024

A more complete write up of the Dorms of Roanoke:

This should have been with the photos of the dorms. My apologies. Moving Day is when students can change dorms if they want to change primary disciplines. Each dormitory represented one of the Seven Sorcerous Arts, and each has its own character. The Dormitories

07/06/2024

My last realtime Year of Rachel post tied to the books:

A Year of Rachel -- Last Formal Post

06/06/2024

When you're 300 pages is and...you have to retrench:

And no, I am not talking about the fact that I go to bed at 4:30am and get up at noon, though…that, too. Rather, I mean the disorientation that comes when you realize that, for whatever reason, a project is not working and needs to be picked apart and rewoven.

05/06/2024

Final Words from The Art and Craft of Writing...it has some encouraging words for writers.

Here's the video version. Link to the written version in the first comment:

The Art and Craft of Writing

25/05/2024

Rachel Griffin vs the Real Olympics!!

Read an original scene cut from Book Six.

22/05/2024

The Die Horribly Debate Club...as "envisioned" by pixelies:

As envisioned by my pet Art AI

21/05/2024

Weigh in on future posts:

I will get to a post yet this week, but it’s a bit late. We were out of town because my youngest decided to join the Catholic Church and chose as his sponsor a friend who lived some distance away. So I am behind by a day or so. I normally pick a topic by praying and writing, but this week, I thoug...

21/05/2024

Sword and Scandal!

Exciting Crowdfunder!

An anthology of NSFW heroic fantasy

14/05/2024

What's your favorite book review site?
Add it in the comments on this article, and I will list it in the follow-up article:

In praise of Upstream Reviews

03/05/2024

In honor of what would have been my mom's 91st birthday, I have made this month's Art and Craft of Writing post free.

The written version:
https://theartandcraftofwriting.substack.com/p/lesson-fifteen-the-trouble-with-tropes

And the video

https://theartandcraftofwriting.substack.com/p/the-trouble-with-tropes

Lesson Fourteen of the Art and Craft of Writing

01/05/2024

Twenty-Fifth Anniversary of the Terrible Years.

Contains a brief summary of this period and what happened:

A Year of Rachel

30/04/2024

Today, Walpurgisnacht, is the climax scene from Book Six.

Just about now, Rachel is stuck to a horse in the middle of a hurling game:

A Year of Rachel

25/04/2024

Was I wrong to be a childhood bookworm? Could there be a downside to being a reader?

This is a very painful thing to write. When I was young, I lived in the world of books. The world around me had difficulties into which I shall not go, but it was made up for by the great assortment of friends I met in books. I read a great deal. I loved to read, and some of the books I read had a t...

17/04/2024

New pictures of the dorms of Roanoke Academy:

One of the most delightful things I’ve done with Fooocus is get new images for the Roanoke Academy’s seven dormitories. Well, all but Drake. I couldn’t quite get the right image for that. Previously, I had images for each dorm, but I made them quite a while ago, before Pixabay and the like, so...

09/04/2024

And on horseback!
Rachel Griffin meets AI Art! Playing around, just for fun, with images of Rachel:

https://theroanokeglass.substack.com/p/rachel-griffin-and-the-fooocus-ai

09/04/2024

Rachel Griffin meets AI Art!

Playing around, just for fun, with images of Rachel:

https://theroanokeglass.substack.com/p/rachel-griffin-and-the-fooocus-ai

08/04/2024

Thoughts on the eclipse and a little fiction:

https://ljagilamplighterwright.substack.com/p/eclipse-the-sun

05/04/2024

Really nice new review on Amazon:

03/04/2024

The Art and Craft of Writing

01/04/2024

A Year of Rachel

01/04/2024

Free post for all