Rick Waugh

Dark, Rushing, Night. A song from a short story that I never released, but I’ll probably send to my mailing list at some point. It’s about a couple in an alien city; she’s brave and wants to see what it’s like, he’s terrified at the thought. Me playing guitar, synth, bass, and singing lead and […]

I think I have the magic system/cosmology sorted out for The Skin of the World, my new series I’m developing. Fantasy writers love to invent magic systems; but creating a magic system of any complexity, that makes sense, without logical contradictions, is…hard. Is it strange to talk about logic in the context of magic? Magic

I love urban fantasy, but I’m tired of hot young witches/vampires/werewolves. The Rivers of London series doesn’t do any of that. It was one of the first, after Dresden, to have a mage gumshoe solving supernatural crimes. But these books are very different from Dresden. The books are funny, the main characters are a blast.

Yes, I do play most days. I still practice a fair bit. And I just have fun writing and arranging. But really…the secret passion of every guitar player…is just noodling. And yes, I do have a hole in my jeans, that was actually worn there. I didn’t have to pay $250 for the pleasure. 😉

I don’t read a lot of books that are heavy on romance. That may be because with a lot of them, the romance is the story, and the injection of steamy scenes seems more the point, rather than how the plot is driven. But I really enjoyed this book. Naime is a princess, and a

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I’m doing the world building for a new series, and I’m really excited about it. It’ll be high fantasy/epic fantasy. I wanted to build a world where I could write a lot of books, with endless possibilities for all kinds of fantasy stories. I wanted all the favorite tropes of everyone who loves fantasy fiction.