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As you look around this site you might have noticed a series of stories all labelled s ‘Letters From An Unknown Land’ and thought what are they and what is going on? Well here are some answers.

Sometimes you need to build a fictional world from a set of broad ideas. To do this you need to find and set the edges of the world.

Why you should stop waiting for success.

Astronio ventures into a deserted palace that was at the centre of the Cataclysm.

The Dead Kingdom is out now in hardback, audio, and e-book.

World Building is ultimately about creating the illusion of reality and depth. To create that illusion, we need to use details, to evoke mood and tone with details, and to put points on the notional map of the world we are creating.

Creating the world that your story takes place in is a difficult and vital art, and one that is best approached by building it up from small details.