Thanks for the welcome!
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Have you posted your short stories anywhere? Do you write a particular kind of fantasy?
Nothing posted here yet, but I had some stories posted on a website which were later removed, along with the rest of the content on the site, after massive coding issues forced them to wipe the slate clean.
I would say the majority of fantasy I write falls into the urban fantasy and magical realism genres. Low fantasy if you want to get technical. Realistic characters and settings with some fantasy mixed in.
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Could you tell us a little about your book and what first attracted you to writing with a fantasy edge?
The working idea of the story is that it takes place in fantasy world on the closing end of a magically influenced version of the industrial revolution. Living standards have improved, swords and shields have fallen obsolete to firearms, and magic is now strictly regulated by the governing coalition and restricted for military use only. The coalition formed agencies to confiscate magically infused items from the populace and to investigate rumored locations of ancient magical artifacts. So if someone happened to move a cabinet and find a tattered leaflet that vaguely mentions the location of a fabled ring, which allows its user to levitate chairs and flip hats, the agency would be sent out to investigate.
The main protagonist is a man who was on the losing side of a civil war, had a brief stint with the above agency, and now owns a local tavern. The city he resides in is a mishmash of species and clashing cultures trying to adapt in this fast changing world. Corruption, racism, and other unpleasant sounding words are commonplace within the city. As is stabbing, which has nearly become a valid form of currency among the unfriendlier residents.
He reluctantly gets involved in the search for a missing young woman who witnessed the racially motivated murder of a dwarven socialite. As he probes deeper into the city’s underbelly he can’t shake the feeling that something more sinister may be involved.
The main attraction I had to writing with a fantasy edge is that fantasy, along with sci fi, is an amazing genre to work with the “what if?” question. Although I love reading and writing realistic fiction, I find the idea of unhooking my imagination and being able to do anything within my stories exciting. I’m drawn to writing stories in modern, realistic settings with fantastic elements mixed in. I love the idea of a mundane world suddenly being interrupted by something that, to the common observer, is fantastic and wonderful and shouldn’t be possible. Or a rational world where non-rational events are an everyday occurrence.
Bah. This was a longer post than I thought it was going to be.
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