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Daily Archives: May 4, 2012
Bear on Grimdark, Burroughs on Writing and some Pretty Covers
I was going to post some photos of my daytrip to Celle on May 1st, but something’s come up, so have some links instead: Elizabeth Bear remarks upon the relentless darkness of the SFF genre and of its inability to … Continue reading
Posted in Books, Links, Writing
Tagged Edgar Rice Burroughs, epic fantasy, fandom wank, grimdark, judge a book by its cover, linkdump, romance, writing advice
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