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Wait, wait! Let me explain. In fantasy fiction, I mean. You gotta have men. Humans. And then you gotta have fish-men. Bug-men. Hawk-men. You get the idea. I've always said, in addition to the normal races of fantasy, you've gotta have five basic races: • Cat-men • Bug-men • Fish-men • Hawk-men • Snake-men Strangely, wolf-men are completely optional. I don't make the rules. I don't know why this is the case, either. If it were up to me, I'd cross cat-men right off the list. Ke

So, I'm standing in the toy aisle in Walmart like a normal, functional adult does on a Wednesday night, and it hits me. Everything I make, all my artistic endeavors. It's all just to feed this. It's all to serve this massive corporate sausage-making machine. So they can slap it on a lunchbox, turn it into a Netflix series, make it into a bad Hollywood adaptation with a terrible "based on" new book cover, a video game adaptation with crappy controls, and you know...I don't wan

As an heroic fantasy author, I'm also a bit of a history/English lit nerd. So naturally, I love Beowulf. I read it in high school and college, and while I don't own a copy, I will say that The 13th Warrior is one of my favorite movies, despite its much-maligned status.