by C.F. Welburn | Oct 20, 2018 | Uncategorized
After six months of checking, tweaking, editing, formatting, tweaking some more, marketing and promoting, The Ashen Levels is done and I can get back to what I loved about all of this in the first place… Writing! Here’s to more adventures!...
by C.F. Welburn | Oct 18, 2018 | Uncategorized
“I’m not sure what the end will bring, but it’s upon us.” “It was dread that drove them. Not so much a treat ahead, as a flail behind; the result was the same.”
by C.F. Welburn | Oct 12, 2018 | Uncategorized
Huddle around, dusk is upon us. You. Yes, you there, come closer. Good, good. For tonight I’ve a tale to tell. The oldest of tales. And it will chill your heart lest the flame lick at your bones… Since the dawn of language stories have existed,...
by C.F. Welburn | Oct 1, 2018 | Uncategorized
Never meet your heroes. On the east side of the square was the peculiar tower he had noted from below. The scholarly figures gathered there suggested a library of sorts, and on closer inspection, his suspicions were confirmed. All were garbed in flowing black robes...
by C.F. Welburn | Sep 29, 2018 | Uncategorized
I’d hazard a guess that when asked, most fantasy readers would say Tolkien was their gateway book. (Fine, so maybe nowadays Harry Potter might have edged into the equation.) But when I think back to my first foray into fantasy (aside from fairy tales, of course ;p),...
by C.F. Welburn | Sep 22, 2018 | Uncategorized
Tales of kids sewing stones in a wolf’s stomach so that it drowns in the river, children being abandoned in woods and cooked in ovens, stepsisters cutting off toes and birds pecking out eyes; the cornerstones of any nutritious childhood! As a child I’d read tales...