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Top Ten Fantasy Tropes

Top Ten Fantasy Tropes for Authors In my quest (pun intended) for fantasy genre work, I love digging around for details on what makes fantasy authors and artists tick. Fantasy has been shaped over hundreds of years from mythology spanning continents, through to works of fiction by CS Lewis and

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What are hybrid authors?

What is a hybrid author? Hybrid authors are writers who publish their work through both traditional publishing and self-publishing avenues. . This trend is great for the self-publishing community as it highlights a growing acceptance of self-publishing as a legitimate avenue for authors to maintain creative control and reach their

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Book covers by the noble artist

100 Book Covers

Celebrating 100 book covers! It may be late… but I wanted to celebrate reaching the lofty goal of illustrating 100 book covers. I hadn’t realised I’d met the goal a little while back, I think I’m clocking about 130 covers now… What have I learned from illustrating over 100 book

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A fantasy book cover by The Noble Artist. A Dwarf hero looks over an underground city.

Dwarf book cover

Dwarf book cover for M.T. Kadasin I love to get new fantasy book cover commissions. This one was about a dwarf undercity. I love fantasy dwarf projects. I just got off the back of some dwarf race stuff for Warhammer Fantasy Roleplay and I loved it. Why are dwarfs so

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