Sarah Kanning

If you are really, truly, very bad at naming characters, and you write fantasy fiction, here at last is help: the Fantasy Name Generator.
I wish I could think of the author who did this, but I was reading about someone (whose writing I respect and whose invented names generally went well with her characters - [...]

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A few months back, I ran across a huge controversy about The Stolen Word, a short story by Lisa Mantchev, which was published in Fantasy Magazine and immediately came under criticism for its portrayal of “peddlers,” which many readers took to be thinly disguised Roma (aka Gypsies) or Tinkers (a distinct racial group in Ireland [...]

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