“We all got ugliness inside us, kid. Yours is worse? Then fight harder. Figure it out.
But don’t you ever pretend you don’t have a choice.”
— Ferius Parfax
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I hate knights. How did these self-involved bullies become heroes in fantasy? The same brutal thugs who pillaged Europe and the Middle East in the name of God. Who convinced us they were paragons of honor?
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"Never trust a man who brings a hundred soldiers to a wedding."
~Falcio
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Now, the question I never get asked is, “where do you get your groove from?” Maybe this sounds like a silly question. After all, books don’t have a groove, do they?

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“We are such a small people. For all our magic, we're scared, paranoid little children trying to protect ourselves from the bullies of the world by becoming bigger bullies ourselves.“ ~ Kellen
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I’ve had the fairly rare opportunity to choreograph sword fights both for the theatre and in print as part of my fantasy novel, Traitor’s Blade, and so I’m sometimes asked about the difference in working with the two different mediums.
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