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There are historical novels, and then there are fancy dress novels – though these often pass as historical novels. The historical novelist will try to get every detail right. Food, clothing and vocabulary have to be verifiably period. The writer of fancy dress fiction, by contrast, is more concerned with capturing the general vibe of the world they’re aiming to reinhabit. Attitude is everything.The same holds for historical dramas on TV and film. A recent example of a triumphantly fancy dress movie is Marie Kreutzer’s…

Image: Vault ComicsAvailable in stores today, Vault Comics’ Dark One is the latest release from prolific author Branson Sanderson (the Mistborn Trilogy, the Stormlight Archive series). It’s a graphic novel that also features the talents of Jackson Lanzing (writer), Collin Kelly (writer), Nathan Gooden (artist, cover artist), Kurt Michael Russell (Colorist), and Andworld Design (letterer).Dark One is the first in a new graphic novel series, and here’s a brief synopsis of the story: “Paul Tanasin is a young man haunted by…

Image: Disney+Just in time for spooky season, Hocus Pocus 2 sweeps in to mark the start of the Halloween frenzy with a spellbinding sequel. The Sanderson sisters don’t miss a step with the legendary Bette Midler, Sarah Jessica Parker,and Kathy Najimy reprising their roles as if not a day has gone by since Kenny Ortega’s 1993 sleeper Disney hit. This time around Anne Fletcher (Dumplin) takes the reigns on the classic coven franchise which cleverly revives the witches in a lega-sequel with wicked musical moments, more…

Brandon Sanderson, an epic fantasy and science fiction writer, delivered an excellent keynote called The Common Lie Writers Tell You. This session was a map of achieving difficult things disguised as writing advice. We would like to believe that skill, talent, or determination are the hallmarks of a breakthrough. We need to understand survivorship bias, our tendency to learn only from successful individual survivors. In Sanderson’s words: Some things are simply impossible, and even for the things that are possible, luck…

Prolific fantasy author Brandon Sanderson has just broken the Kickstarter record for the most successful crowdfunded project of all time, cracking the $20,338,986 milestone set by the Pebble Time all the way back in 2015. Sanderson’s achievement isn’t just notable for the sheer amount of money raised but for the speed. The project — for four new novels that the author wrote in secret over the course of the pandemic — was announced on Tuesday, March 1st and broke the record by early Friday morning, March 4th. The…