Tag: alternative history

• How Guy Gavriel Kay’s Books Started My Love for Writing Historical Fantasy

  

  Have you ever felt like you belonged in somebody’s fictional setting?

  Vesna Kurilic

  March 3, 2021

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• Why Not: Doppelgänger Romance

  

  ‘Doppelgänger romance’ and its variations is not a term to be tossed around lightly—especially when you’re writing it.

  Vesna Kurilic

  February 10, 2021

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• Skirts’n’Wolves in 2021: Huzzah!

  

  The old year is dead! Long live the new year! (…or something like that.)

  Vesna Kurilic

  January 6, 2021

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