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Monthly Archives: March 2015

Maps and Make Believe

By William | March 26, 2015 - 3:34 pm |April 19, 2016 The Writing Life, The Year of the Red Door
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“I am told there are people who do not care for maps, and I find it hard to believe.” –Robert Louis Stevenson   Soon after beginning The Year of the Red Door, I realized that I needed to make some maps.   At first, crudely sketched maps of places in relation … Read more… →

The Rabbit Who Came In From The Cold

By William | March 18, 2015 - 11:26 pm |December 12, 2017 Life and Times
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    “And now here is my secret, a very simple secret: It is only with the heart that one can see rightly; what is essential is invisible to the eye.”   I know it’s a cliche, but the most wonderful things sometimes do come in the smallest packages. One … Read more… →

How Do You Pronounce…?

By William | March 17, 2015 - 9:10 am |January 15, 2016 The Year of the Red Door
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Some of the most frequent questions that I get concerning The Year of the Red Door are about how to pronounce certain words, particularly names of characters.   “However you’d like to,” is how I usually answer.    Frowns typically ensue. So how do I pronounce these names?   I’ll just go … Read more… →

Liberties With Realism: Balancing the Fantastic

By William | March 6, 2015 - 12:52 am |February 6, 2017 The Year of the Red Door
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If I could have written The Year of the Red Door as historical fiction, or even as contemporary “literary” fiction, I certainly would have.   But the things I wanted to explore, and the direction that the story took, decided for me that it should be fantasy. So when it came … Read more… →

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