Todd Sharp, March 14, 2017April 4, 2017, BTS, The Circle, 0 We spent the afternoon at AJS Costumes, picking out wardrobe for an upcoming photo shoot for The Elect Stories. Why is it so damn hot in the valley today??
+ Telos and Jessy John Crye, April 11, 2021April 11, 2021, BTS, Developing The Story, Exploring The World, 0 Plato wrote about the concept of “telos” as being a “perfect paradigm” or “ultimate version” of whatever was being...
+ Designing The World: Art Nouveau And Pulp Fantasy John Crye, January 12, 2021February 2, 2021, BTS, Designing The World, 0 I dig pulp fiction. Not just the hard-boiled detective paperbacks of the 1950s, or even the pulp magazines like...
+ Unforgiven and Revisionist Fantasy John Crye, May 14, 2021May 14, 2021, BTS, Designing The Characters, Developing The Story, The Circle, 1 I grew up enjoying Westerns. I’ve always had a particular fondness for Sergio Leone’s “Man with No Name” films,...
Imaginary Soundtracks John Crye, March 28, 2021March 27, 2021, BTS, Exploring The World, 0 I like to listen to music when I write. I think I may have started the habit when my...
+ Swords & Cowboys: Genre mash-up time! John Crye, October 17, 2021October 17, 2021, BTS, Developing The Story, News, 0 This month’s cover art by Todd Sharp features the blood-red silhouettes of three men mounted on galloping horses. The...
+ Paint It Black John Crye, May 6, 2021May 6, 2021, Announcement, BTS, Developing The Story, News, 0 If nothing else, this month’s cover art – a dark portrait lit with unnatural neon colors, our standard background...
+ Ever Get That Sync-ing Feeling? (Ch. 2 Gets An X-Ray) John Crye, April 15, 2021April 13, 2021, BTS, Exploring The World, News, 0 One of the cool benefits of publishing via Amazon Kindle is that the work can be revised or corrected...
+ Parallel Lines: Past and Present John Crye, April 6, 2021April 5, 2021, BTS, Developing The Story, Story, 0 Some readers expressed surprise when “The Elect Stories” made a leap of twenty years from chapter one to chapter...