So… I have a dragon in Gunslinger. How fast can a dragon realistically fly? It’s a soaring animal, more than one that flaps its wings a lot. It’s also big. So what’s the comparable. A little internet research turns up that Condors can fly at 35 mph (that’s not a top speed, more of an […]
Category: Mythic West Background
As I’ve been writing Sharpshooter, I’ve had to wrestle with a bunch of questions about how the Jotun giants run their society. Specifically, what resources do they have? Food and water are fairly straightforward. They basically eat the same stuff we humans do. So they just have to eat a lot more of it. So […]
Sharpshooter starts with Billy joining the Army of the West. This forced me to do some background research on Civil War Era army organization. Fortunately, there’s a lot of material on the web about Civil War era armies. 😉 Major General Sanborn, Commander of the Army of the West -Two Corps –Two Divisions per Corps […]
One challenge I have is clearly defining what genre Sidekick is. I’ve called it Historical Fantasy, which is clearly is, but there’s also a genre called Weird Western. I hope to post examples and links in the coming months to these types of books. Weird Westerns get their title from taking the Western setting and […]
Here’s the Map of the West! It was done by Robert at www.fantasy-map.net and I’m quite pleased with it. It captures the major areas that will be part of both Sidekick and future novels.
The physics of the giants of the Mythic West came about from seeing a Tyrannosaurus Rex skeleton at the Denver Museum of Nature and Science and Natural History. While large invertebrates are physically impossible (gravity pulls the innards down too quickly), the skeleton showed that vertebrates could indeed grow to three or four times the […]