Writing (and reading) a good fight scene is definitely a skill, even if you have experience with martial arts or fighting styles in real life (as I do). I’ve written before about how fight scenes can and should reveal character and develop the plot, but for some audiences, fight scenes all feel the same. If you […]
I’m a sucker for stories that combine the fantastical with the humorous. I love seeing epic quests laced through with wit, demon attacks dealt with via banter, and world-ending scenarios faced down with a sarcastic joke or three. After all, humor is a coping mechanism, and fantasy protagonists usually have a whole mess of problems […]
Michael R Underwood is an alumnus from the world of Academia, who has turned his academic interest in mythology, and all things geek into being an author, a sales and marketing manager for Angry Robot Books, and a podcaster. His works have ranged the gamut of fantasy: superheroes in a fantasy universe Shield and Crocus. […]
