Hank Quense

Eight Humorous Stories from the Land of the Incongruous

Tales from Gundarland

Do you have a story in you? Do you know how to write it or how to tell it? Creating Stories has the answers. Hank Quense, the author of more than twenty books, tells you how to do it. He believes that stories come from the melding of three elements: getting ideas, story design and story-telling. Ideas have to come from the author. Creating Stories covers the last two. The book concentrates on developing characters including such rarely discussed requirements such as a dominant reader emotion and the character's biography. Plots are also covered in depth and a number of graphics are included to illustrate complex points. Another topic discusses subplots and how to utilize them and how to nest them within the main plot. A separate chapter discusses the relationship between the plot and the emotional arcs. Other topics covered are: character arcs, scene design, point-of-view, writing voice.

Creating Stories

Patricia S. Bowne

Catherine Lundoff

Naomi Kritzer

Mark Rich

Eleanor Arnason

Kristine Ong Muslim

Patricia Russo

Tony Pi

Gerard Houarner

Katherine Woodbury

F. J. Bergmann

Stephen Dedman

Ann K. Schwader

Sue Isle

Lyda Morehouse

James P. Roberts

Terry A. Garey

Martha A. Hood

S. N. Arly

Stephen Couch

Michael A. Pignatella

Terry Faust

Camilla DeCarnin

Sandra Lindow

Cornelius Fortune

Terry Leigh Relf

Tales of the Unanticipated #29

Do you enjoy untypical coming-of-age stories? Well you find one more untypical that Moxie's Problem. Moxie is an obnoxious, teen-age princess who has never been outsider her father's castle. Until now. The real world is quite different and she struggles to come to grips with reality. The story take space against a backdrop of Camelot. But it isn't the Camelot of legends. It's Camelot in a parallel universe. So, all bets are off!

Moxie's Problem

Moxie's adventures continue. This time she's the Queen and her reign is threatened. A tribe of savage Picts have migrated from up north and settled outside her borders. Then there are the forests fairies. Their king, Oberon, claims a vast chunk of her land.In addition, Moxie's ten-year-old daughter, decides she doesn't want to be the next Queen.What's a Queen to do with all these problems?

Queen Moxie

E. E. King

Lynette Mejia

Rachel Hochberg

Clint Spivey

Fantasy Scroll Magazine is an online, bi-monthly publication featuring science fiction, fantasy, horror, and paranormal short-fiction. The magazine’s mission is to publish high-quality, entertaining, and thought-provoking speculative fiction. With a mixture of short stories, flash fiction, and micro-fiction, Fantasy Scroll Magazine aims to appeal to a wide audience. Issue #10 includes 9 short stories and one graphic story: "The Genie and the Inquisitor" - Johnny Compton "The Hummingbird Air" - Paul Roberge "The Empty Faux-Historical Residential Unit" - Rachel Hochberg "Last Age of Kings" - Jeremy Szal "Kara's Ares" - Clint Spivey "Protecting Nessie" - Hank Quense "Dancing an Elegy, His Own" - Julie Novakova "Lost Souls" - E. E. King "The Answer" - Lynette Mejía "Shamrock - Part 5 - Monkey Business" - Josh Brown & Alberto Hernandez In the non-fiction section, this issue features: Interview with Award Winning Author Matthew Kressel Interview with Author and Editor Maurice Broaddus Artist Spotlight: Josh Hutchinson Book Review: The SEA Is Ours (ed. by Jaymee Goh and Joyce Chng) Movie Review: The Martian (Ridley Scott) The magazine is open to most sub-genres of science fiction, including hard SF, military, apocalyptic & post-apocalyptic, space opera, time travel, cyberpunk, steampunk, and humorous. Similarly for fantasy, we accept most sub-genres, including alternate world, dark fantasy, heroic, high or epic, historical, medieval, mythic, sword & sorcery, urban fantasy, and humorous. The magazine also publishes horror and paranormal short fiction.

Fantasy Scroll Magazine Issue #10

Kate Sheeran Swed

Josh Vogt

Pauline Alama

Anna Yeatts

Axel Taiari

Rebecca Roland

Gary Emmette Chandler

Fantasy Scroll Magazine is an online, bi-monthly publication featuring science fiction, fantasy, horror, and paranormal short-fiction. The magazine’s mission is to publish high-quality, entertaining, and thought-provoking speculative fiction. With a mixture of short stories, flash fiction, and micro-fiction, Fantasy Scroll Magazine aims to appeal to a wide audience. Issue #7 includes 9 short stories and one graphic story: "No Tale for Troubadours" - Pauline J. Alama "Hell of a Salesman" - Hank Quense "Beyond the Visible Spectrum" - Axel Taiari "Little Sprout" - Rebecca Roland "When the Dead Are Indexed" - Gary Emmette Chandler "Dragon Rodeo Queen" - Kate Sheeran Swed "The Adjunct" - Patricia S. Bowne "Outside In" - Anna Yeatts "Conversations with a Ghost" - Josh Vogt "Shamrock" - Josh Brown & Alberto Hernandez In the non-fiction section, this issue features: Interview with Author Tina Connolly Interview with Author Rachel Pollack Interview with Author Hank Quense Science Corner: 7 Things to Know About Mutations Book Review: A Princess of Mars (Edgar Rice Burroughs) Movie Review: EX_MACHINA (Alex Garland) The magazine is open to most sub-genres of science fiction, including hard SF, military, apocalyptic & post-apocalyptic, space opera, time travel, cyberpunk, steampunk, and humorous. Similarly for fantasy, we accept most sub-genres, including alternate world, dark fantasy, heroic, high or epic, historical, medieval, mythic, sword & sorcery, urban fantasy, and humorous. The magazine also publishes horror and paranormal short fiction.

Fantasy Scroll Magazine Issue #7

Moxie's story continues! Moxie is determined to rule as queen after her father, King Smedley, dies. But Smedley refuses to acknowledge her as his heir. Her uncle also wants the throne and he's already tried once to eliminate Moxie's once before.

Moxie's Decision

Hank Quense

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