Worldbuilding | MD Presley

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I'm a fantasy author with a focus on fantasy worldbuilding and a background in screenwriting.

Please check out my WORLDBUILDING RESOURCES, especially the AALC MAGIC SYSTEMS.

I also have a worldbuilding YouTube channel that's worth giving a gander.

MY BOOKS

For Authors - High Resolution

Workbook - High Resolution

The Shattered Sphere_v6

For Authors - High Resolution

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Take a Day for Your Disappointments

It’s been about 48 hours now since I decided to scrap the launch of book three, which would have been a week from now. The long and the...

Dec 5, 2018

Ode to 90s Indie Films

I don’t think I’ve made any secret that I’m a child of the 80s. But I was a teenager during the 90s, which really did a lot to shape me...

Nov 29, 2018

Facebook Ads Case Study Number One – Ad Copy

Ads are a funny thing. As in I don’t look at them at all, yet still somehow expect them to work for me to sell my book. Perhaps it’s just...

Nov 17, 2018

I May Be Through With Medieval Fantasy

Again, apologies to both my readers for a few-week lapse there. The stomach flu plagued (totally a verb) its way through our household,...

Nov 10, 2018

New Map, Who Dis?

As I mentioned last week, I recently engaged an actual cartographer, the immeasurable Soraya Corcoran, to create a new map for Newfield...

Oct 25, 2018

Update on Book Three

To both of you that read this blog, let me apologize for not posting last week. I'll blame illness, but there's a 84.2% chance laziness...

Oct 18, 2018

Self-Publishing and the Many Hats

This is probably the least original post idea there is for a self-publisher, and I’m sure if I googled “self-publishing hats” I’d be...

Oct 5, 2018

Gerjet and Waer

Long ago when glass was still new, deep in the woods there lived a poor man with six daughters. The oldest was Gerjet, a Shaper who...

Sep 27, 2018

Ode to The Prestige

I’m detouring a bit here in that usually these Odes are about more obscure books/ movies that were seminal in my development as an...

Sep 20, 2018

Editing Strategies

With my third book in the bag and just finishing up the first phase of editing, I thought I should probably address this stage in writing...

Sep 12, 2018

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