TJ West

Present Tense vs. Past Tense: The Great Verb Debate

Originally posted on Jane Kolven: A blog post in which I find myself defending a trend…
The Great Golden Girls Marathon: “Sisters” (S2, Ep. 12)

Okay, I know I say this every time I begin a new blog post about The…
Book Review: “The Secret Commonwealth” (by Philip Pullman)

Originally posted on Darcy and Winters: It’s hard to convey just how excited I was when…
Why We Write Serial Fiction
The most embarrassing thing I ever wrote

Originally posted on Jane Kolven: On developing talent in the pre-internet era A recent conversation with…
On the Pleasures of World Building

Originally posted on Darcy and Winters: Ask any fan of epic fantasy what they enjoy most…
The Great Golden Girls Marathon “‘Twas the Nightmare Before Christmas” (S2, Ep. 11)

And so we come to that staple of most 1980s sitcoms, the Christmas episode. After exchanging…
On Writing Queer Characters in Fantasy

Originally posted on Darcy and Winters: There’s no doubt that as a genre fantasy has made…
New book preview: one scene, two ways

Originally posted on Jane Kolven: This week instead of analyzing some aspect of romance as I…
The Great Golden Girls Marathon: “Love, Rose” (S2, Ep. 10)

In today’s entry, we’re going to talk about one of the more touching episodes of the…