Fantasy

What Makes Fiction Bizarro, And What Makes Bizarro Awesome?

Genre labels aren’t always useful, but properly utilized, they can help budding authors determine the type of writing they want to …

Kate Bernheimer is like fiction’s knight errant, on a mission to rescue fairy tales from the tall, dark tower where they’ve been …

Naming characters is a mercurial task. Sometimes, characters arrive in your mind wearing a name badge. Sometimes, their name is so …

Sometimes, you’re midway through a story and you suddenly realize what you need to change to make it work. A later development …