In celebration of the release of Creating Places (The Art of World Building, #2) I’m doing a massive giveaway of world building tools, training, and advice! All you need to do is enter and get a chance to win $200 Read More …
It’s been months in the making, but The Art of World Building podcast has launched this week! You can hear the first three episodes now. Episodes are free and are scheduled to release every two weeks. You can listen here: The Art Read More …
I just received another endorsement from Ed Greenwood, creator of The Forgotten Realms® and dozens of other imaginary worlds: With CREATING PLACES, Randy Ellefson has penned a sequel to his CREATING LIFE that walks story creators through worldbuilding along an Read More …
The audiobook of Creating Life (The Art of World Building, #1) is now available at iTunes, Amazon, and Audible. Running time is 5 hours and 13 minutes and it’s on sale for between $17-19. Now you can have it read Read More …
Now that the writing of Creating Places is largely finished and only needs editing, I’ve updated the table of contents (TOC) to reflect the final contents. This includes a new chapter on “Travel in Space” and some rearrangement of other Read More …
You can now pre-order the Kindle format for Creating Places (The Art of World Building, #2), which will be published on November 14, 2017. Pre-orders don’t work for other formats, unfortunately, but the book will be available in paperback and ePUB Read More …
The eBook cover for Creating Life has won an award from The Book Designer website. The folks at Deranged Doctor Designs did a great job on this when I hired them, as you can see for yourself!
I just received an endorsement from Ed Greenwood, creator of The Forgotten Realms® and dozens of other imaginary worlds: Worldbuilding—creating a fictional setting—is THE biggest job of a storyteller. It can be done badly or minimally, but doing so risks Read More …
I started recording The Art of World Building Podcast this month. I’ll be covering much of what’s in the three volumes but not everything (sometimes more, sometimes less). In addition to learning more about world building, you’ll have the chance Read More …
4 Unconventional Tools to Fix Common Creative Writing Problems by Guest Blogger Ethan Miller Once upon a time, there lived a writer who churned bestsellers after bestsellers without breaking a sweat. Words flowed out of him with such ridiculous ease Read More …