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Go Teen Writers

Author : Stephanie Morrill,Jill Williamson,Shannon Dittemore
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 350 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2020-12-03
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1732880824

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Go Teen Writers by Stephanie Morrill,Jill Williamson,Shannon Dittemore Pdf

You have a story to tell, don't you? Or maybe you simply want to try your hand at fiction writing. Perhaps you've given it your best effort, but simply didn't have enough tools in your tool box to finish that first draft. Wherever you're at with this novel-writing thing, popular bloggers Stephanie Morrill, Jill Williamson, and Shannon Dittemore totally understand. They know it's hard to finish a first draft. To stay motivated until the end. To feel like a "real" writer. They know because they've been there too. In Go Teen Writers: Write Your Novel, you'll learn: There is no such thing as one right way to write a novel. How to take an idea and give it a beginning, middle, and end. What story structure means and how it strengthens a book. Different approaches to plotting a novel. How to develop characters worth reading about. Strategies for creating memorable storyworlds and settings. What theme is and how to use it to enrich your story. What to do when your first draft is finished. There's no doubt about it. Learning to write a novel from beginning to end is a challenge. But with this book as your guide, you'll see that when you're in possession of the right tools, you're capable of finishing what you start. You'll be empowered and encouraged-as if you had a writing coach (or three!) sitting alongside you.

Rhetorics of Fantasy

Author : Farah Mendlesohn
Publisher : Wesleyan University Press
Page : 337 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2014-01-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780819573919

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This sweeping study of fantasy literature offers “new and often surprising readings of works both familiar and obscure. A fine critical work” (Journal of the Fantastic in the Arts). Transcending arguments over the definition of fantasy literature, Rhetorics of Fantasy introduces a provocative new system of classification for the genre. Drawing on nearly two hundred examples of modern fantasy, author Farah Mendlesohn identifies four categories—portal-quest, immersive, intrusion, and liminal—that arise out of the relationship of the protagonist to the fantasy world. Using these sets, Mendlesohn argues that the author's stylistic decisions are then shaped by the inescapably political demands of the category in which they choose to write. Each chapter covers at least twenty books in detail, ranging from nineteenth-century fantasy and horror to some of the best works in the contemporary field. Mendlesohn discusses works by more than one hundred authors, including Lloyd Alexander, Peter Beagle, Marion Zimmer Bradley, John Crowley, Stephen R. Donaldson, Stephen King, C. S. Lewis, Gregory Maguire, Robin McKinley, China Miéville, Suniti Namjoshi, Philip Pullman, J. K. Rowling, Sheri S. Tepper, J. R. R. Tolkien, Tad Williams, and many others.

Jackaroo

Author : Cynthia Voigt
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 1985
Category : Adventure stories
ISBN : 9780689311239

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Jackaroo by Cynthia Voigt Pdf

When hard times among the People revive the old stories of the hero Jackaroo, an innkeeper's daughter follows her own quest to unlock the secret reality behind the legend.

Dreams Underfoot

Author : Charles de Lint
Publisher : Macmillan
Page : 420 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2003-08-02
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0765306794

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Dreams Underfoot by Charles de Lint Pdf

Newford's citizens--fey folk, magicians, hustlers, painters, fiddlers, and ordinary people--stumble headfirst into enchanting adventures.

Dead Man's Steel

Author : Luke Scull
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2017-01-03
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781101609415

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Dead Man's Steel by Luke Scull Pdf

As the “gripping”* epic from the author of Sword of the North continues, the Grim Company must battle a dangerous new enemy that is determined to destroy all of humanity... In the City of Towers, former rebel Sasha and her comrade Davarus Cole struggle to keep the peace between the warring mages who vie for dominion. But when the White Lady sends Davarus south to the Shattered Realms to seek allies among the fallen kingdoms, he finds that his hardest battle may be one fought within. The godly essence now residing within him offers power that could be used against the Fade—but with every death that feeds It, Cole risks losing a part of himself. An association with a Fade officer grants the Halfmage Eremul a position of privilege among Dorminia’s new masters. He witnesses firsthand the fate that awaits humanity. But with his magic pitiful in the face of the Fade’s advanced technology, the Halfmage must rely on his wits alone to save whom he can… And in the frozen north, the legendary warrior Brodar Kayne fights a desperate battle for his people. He is running out of time: an ancient evil sealed beneath the mountains is about to break free, an evil that is older than humanity, older than the Fade, older even than the gods—and it will not stop until the entire world is drowned in blood…

Wit'ch Fire

Author : James Clemens
Publisher : Del Rey
Page : 496 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2002-02-05
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780345453686

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Wit'ch Fire by James Clemens Pdf

“I loved every page of this book. Clemens has constructed a world of magic that’s never been seen before, with a cast of beings who are so engaging and entrancing that you never want the story to end.”—John Saul On a fateful night five centuries ago, three mages made a desperate last stand, sacrificing everything to preserve the only hope of goodness in the beautiful, doomed land of Alasea. Now, on the anniversary of that ominous night, a girl-child ripens into the heritage of lost power. But before she can even comprehend her terrible new gift, the Dark Lord dispatches his winged monsters to capture her and bring him the embryonic magic she embodies. Fleeing the minions of darkness, Elena is swept toward certain doom—and into the company of unexpected allies. There she forms a band of the hunted and the cursed, the outcasts and the outlaws, to battle the unstoppable forces of evil and rescue a once-glorious empire . . . Praise for Wit’ch Fire “Wit’ch Fire grabs at your heart and tears a little hole, then tears another, and another—a brutal and beautiful ride. I can’t put the book down!”—R. A. Salvatore “Full of violence, magical pyrotechnics, and black-heared villains.”—Publishers Weekly

The A to Z of Fantasy Literature

Author : Brian Stableford
Publisher : Scarecrow Press
Page : 568 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2009-08-13
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0810863456

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The A to Z of Fantasy Literature by Brian Stableford Pdf

Once upon a time all literature was fantasy, set in a mythical past when magic existed, animals talked, and the gods took an active hand in earthly affairs. As the mythical past was displaced in Western estimation by the historical past and novelists became increasingly preoccupied with the present, fantasy was temporarily marginalized until the late 20th century, when it enjoyed a spectacular resurgence in every stratum of the literary marketplace. Stableford provides an invaluable guide to this sequence of events and to the current state of the field. The chronology tracks the evolution of fantasy from the origins of literature to the 21st century. The introduction explains the nature of the impulses creating and shaping fantasy literature, the problems of its definition and the reasons for its changing historical fortunes. The dictionary includes cross-referenced entries on more than 700 authors, ranging across the entire historical spectrum, while more than 200 other entries describe the fantasy subgenres, key images in fantasy literature, technical terms used in fantasy criticism, and the intimately convoluted relationship between literary fantasies, scholarly fantasies, and lifestyle fantasies. The book concludes with an extensive bibliography that ranges from general textbooks and specialized accounts of the history and scholarship of fantasy literature, through bibliographies and accounts of the fantasy literature of different nations, to individual author studies and useful websites.

The Silmarillion

Author : J. R. R. Tolkien
Publisher : HarperCollins UK
Page : 363 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2011-02-03
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780007322565

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The Silmarillion by J. R. R. Tolkien Pdf

The forerunner to The Lord of the Rings, The Silmarillion tells the earlier history of Middle-earth, recounting the events of the First and Second Ages, and introducing some of the key characters, such as Galadriel, Elrond, Elendil and the Dark Lord, Sauron.

The Serpent's Shadow

Author : Mercedes Lackey
Publisher : Astra Publishing House
Page : 402 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2002-03-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781101141748

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The first novel in Mercedes Lackey's magical Elemental Masters series reimagines the fairy tale Snow White in a richly-detailed alternate Edwardian England Maya Witherspoon lived most of the first twenty-five years of her life in her native India. As the daughter of a prominent British physician and a Brahmin woman of the highest caste, she graduated from the University of Delhi as a Doctor of Medicine by the age of twenty-two. But the science of medicine was not Maya’s only heritage. For Maya’s aristocratic mother Surya was a sorceress—a former priestess of the mystical magics fueled by the powerful and fearsome pantheon of Indian gods. Though Maya felt the stirring of magic in her blood, her mother had repeatedly refused to train her. “I cannot,” she had said, her eyes dark with distress, whenever Maya asked. “Yours is the magic of your father’s blood, not mine....” Surya never had the chance to explain this enigmatic statement to her daughter before a mysterious illness claimed her life. Yet it was Maya’s father’s death shortly thereafter that confirmed her darkest suspicions. For her father was killed by the bite of a krait, a tiny venomous snake, and in the last hours of her mother’s life, Surya had warned Maya to beware “the serpent’s shadow.” Maya knew she must flee the land of her birth or face the same fate as her parents. In self-imposed exile in Edwardian London, Maya knew that she could not hide forever from the vindictive power that had murdered her parents. She knew in her heart that even a vast ocean couldn’t protect her from “the serpent’s shadow” that had so terrified her mother. Her only hope was to find a way to master her own magic: the magic of her father’s blood. But who would teach her? And could she learn enough to save her life by the time her relentless pursuers caught up with their prey?

Sing the Four Quarters

Author : Tanya Huff
Publisher : Jabberwocky Literary Agency, Inc.
Page : 592 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2015-08-04
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781625671226

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Sing the Four Quarters by Tanya Huff Pdf

The Bards of Shkoder hold the country together. They, and the elemental spirits they Sing – earth, air, fire, and water - bring the news of the sea to the mountains, news of the mountains to the plains. They give their people, from peasant to king, a song in common. Annice is a rare talent, able to Sing all four quarters, but her brother, the newly enthroned King Theron, sees her request to study at the Bardic Hall as a betrayal. To his surprise, Annice accepts his conditions, renouncing her royal blood and swearing to remain childless so as not to jeopardize the line of succession. She walks away from political responsibilities, royal privilege and her family. Ten years later, Annice has become the Princess Bard and her real life is about to become the exact opposite of the overwrought ballad her fellow students at the Bardic Hall wrote about her. Now, she's on the run from the Royal Guards with the Duc of Ohrid, the father of her unborn child, both of them guilty of treason – one of them unjustly accused. To save the Duc's life, they'll have to cross the country, manage to keep from strangling each other, and defeat an enemy too damaged for even a Bard's song to reach.

The Thief of Always

Author : Clive Barker
Publisher : Crossroad Press
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2017-11-19
Category : Young Adult Fiction
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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The Thief of Always by Clive Barker Pdf

Mr. Hood's Holiday House has stood for a thousand years, welcoming countless children into its embrace. It is a place of miracles, a blissful rounds of treats and seasons, where every childhood whim may be satisfied... There is a price to be paid, of course, but young Harvey Swick, bored with his life and beguiled by Mr. Hood's wonders, does not stop to consider the consequences. It is only when the House shows it's darker face — when Harvey discovers the pitiful creatures that dwell in its shadows — that he comes to doubt Mr. Hood's philanthropy. The House and its mysterious architect are not about to release their captive without a battle, however. Mr. Hood has ambitious for his new guest, for Harvey's soul burns brighter than any soul he has encountered in a thousand years...

Covenants

Author : Lorna Freeman
Publisher : ROC Hardcover
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Fantasy fiction, American
ISBN : 0451459806

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Covenants by Lorna Freeman Pdf

Rabbit is a trooper on the Border Guards, just another body in the King's army. But when his patrol encounters a Faena-one of the magical guardians of an uneasy ally-Rabbit is thrust into a political and magical intrigue that could start a war. Because Rabbit isn't just another trooper. He is the son of nobility-and a mage who doesn't know his own power...

The Belgariad

Author : David Eddings
Publisher : Del Rey Books
Page : 1127 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0345456327

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The Belgariad by David Eddings Pdf

A two-volume compilation presents the five previously published novels in the epic saga which begins with the theft of the protective Orb from Riva.

Elements of Magic

Author : Melinda Vanlone
Publisher : House of Xannon
Page : 362 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2020-03-29
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1949408035

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Elements of Magic by Melinda Vanlone Pdf

Balance is hard. and sometimes deadly.Tarian Xannon uses water, air, and fire to fight against injustice, to protect her family, and to do just about everything in between. But now the elements are out of control. Can she fight fire with fire?When downtown Ft. Worth, Texas is leveled by bubbles of elemental power, Tarian Xannon and her team step in to put the situation right. But when one explodes right in front of her, Tarian is branded a terrorist. Worse, more bubbles crop up all over the world, and she must race to find out who or what is creating them, and stop it, before the elements of magic destroy the world. Elements of Magic is the fifth book in the House of Xannon elemental magic series. If you like urban fantasy featuring strong women using magic, skill, and guts to save the world one catastrophe at a time, you'll love the House of Xannon.

The Fellowship of the Ring

Author : John Ronald Reuel Tolkien,Christina Scull
Publisher : HarperCollins UK
Page : 571 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780007203581

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The Fellowship of the Ring by John Ronald Reuel Tolkien,Christina Scull Pdf

'The Fellowship of the Ring' is the first part of JRR Tolkien's epic masterpiece 'The Lord of the Rings'. This 50th anniversary edition features special packaging and includes the definitive edition of the text.|PB