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Help yourself to a free copy of Dragonsword, the first fantasy novel from Deborah Teramis Christian in over a decade. Now available for immediate download at the Dragonsword book site, or you can read an excerpt here.

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Improving Sales and Income in Ebook Publishing

Improving Sales and Income in Ebook Publishing

How can a short story writer make a reasonable profit in today's ebook publishing market? Here are a few approaches that might help. [Continue]

Why TV Productions Suck and How YouTube Will Save Us

Why TV Productions Suck and How YouTube Will Save Us

The studio production process in TV/film forces mediocrity. Look to web-centric productions for the emerging wave of quality entertainment. Indie artists are producing Hollywood-quality work for cheap on the web, without studio constraints. [Continue]

Back in Time With Living History: the PBS “House” Projects

Back in Time With Living History: the PBS “House” Projects

PBS' "House" series of history documentaries take modern people back to live in earlier eras. These shows are a terrific study of human behavior and radical displacement in time and space. They might even be the next best thing to time travel. [Continue]

Book Editing: Killing Characters With Mark Twain’s Deadly Well

Book Editing: Killing Characters With Mark Twain’s Deadly Well

Mark Twain's story about conjoined twins turned into the classic Pudd'nhead Wilson - but only after he drowned unneeded characters. His novel manner of plot revision considered. [Continue]

The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo and My Novel MAINLINE

The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo and My Novel MAINLINE

Forget the English version of this flick: Noomi Rapace in the original is the bomb, and a double for Reva, my assassin protagonist in Mainline. [Continue]

Stargate Universe: Science Fiction That’s Out of This Galaxy

Stargate Universe: Science Fiction That’s Out of This Galaxy

Stargate Universe blends wonder, science and the nearly mystical unknown with great storytelling. Worth watching even though the series is done. [Continue]

The Grasshopper: The Army Jet Pack That Wasn’t

The Grasshopper: The Army Jet Pack That Wasn’t

Scientists haven't perfected jet packs yet for personal flight, but they once offered the concept to the military. Meet the Grasshopper, the jet pack the Army could have developed in 1958. [Continue]

Gender Roles and Women in Power: An Uncomfortable Fiction

Gender Roles and Women in Power: An Uncomfortable Fiction

One game designer's fantasy setting plays with gender roles and has women, rather than men, in the position of dominant power in a society. Why the upset responses from some male readers? Some thoughts on the subject. [Continue]

Five Ways to Overthrow a Kingdom in Fictional Settings – Part 1

Five Ways to Overthrow a Kingdom in Fictional Settings – Part 1

Need to overthrow a kingdom in a story or game setting? Here are five ways to do so, in a 5-part series. Part 1 talks pros and cons of armed conflict and 3 things to keep in mind if you go that route. [Continue]

When to Use Old Language and Slang in Your Stories

When to Use Old Language and Slang in Your Stories

Writing in a different time period? Here are resources to help make sure you're using the right slang and old language for the setting. [Continue]

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Author Deborah Teramis Christian


Teramis wrote her first book at age 9, but like all good literary lizards has taken her time charging upon the market. Finally in a situation where she can write full time, she is becoming the Dragon, Unleashed, or a close facsimile thereof. Roar, said the saur.

Teramis On the Web

Alternate History Weekly Update - Guest Blogging

MilSciFi Interview - re "Live Fire" in No Man's Land

New Books


This military science fiction anthology contains "Live Fire," Christian's Tiptree Award-nominated short story set in the Sa'adani Empire, the setting of her science fiction novels. Now available at Amazon in print and Kindle editions.