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Checking On Culture: An Aid to Building Story Background [Perfect Paperback]

Lee Killough (Author)
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  • Perfect Paperback: 66 pages
  • Publisher: Yard Dog Press; 2nd edition (April 1, 2007)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 1893687902
  • ISBN-13: 978-1893687905
  • Product Dimensions: 8.2 x 5.5 x 0.4 inches
  • Shipping Weight: 4.8 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
  • Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
  • Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,919,193 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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I have been storytelling almost as long as I can remember, starting somewhere around the age of four or five with making up my own bedtime stories. In grade school the stories became episodes of my favorite radio and TV shows, predating the fan-written Star Trek literature by decades. Then, in keeping with wisdom that says the golden age of science fiction is about age eleven, at that age I discovered science fiction and fantasy. That first SF novel hooked me on SF and fantasy. But along with the pleasure of devouring this marvelous literature came fear. I lived in a small town with a small library and I saw I would soon read the section dry. So to keep from running out of science fiction, I began writing my own. And because the mystery section adjoined the SF/Fantasy section, leading me to discover mysteries about the same time as SF, my stories tended to combine SF with mystery. They still do, resulting in supernatural mysteries and urban fantasy...with a noticeable fondness for cops. Vampire cop Garreth Mikaelian hunts killers in Blood Hunt and Bloodlinks (published together by Meisha Merlin as BloodWalk) and in Blood Games. I have future cops Janna Brill and Mama Maxwell in three novels (The Doppelganger Gambit, Dragon's Teeth, and Spider Play)space-going cops in Deadly Silents, werewolf cops in my novel Wilding Nights, and a ghost cop in Killer Karma.

Beginning Blood Games, Wilding Nights, Killer Karma and my African fantasy novel The Leopard's Daughter, my books are now being re-published in e-book editions.

 

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4.0 out of 5 stars A Necessary Book, December 25, 2010
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Lee Killough's CHECKING ON CULTURE is a slim book but tightly packed with information and questions writers need to consider. It is distilled information and, so, potent. Like the very best teachers, Killough points to other sources as well as providing information up front, and she teaches by the best method -- asking. She does not provide a formula for making an alien or fantasy culture like a cookie-cutter product but gives the writers -- not only of fantasies and science fiction but westerns, historicals, and most other forms of fiction -- the information and asks the questions that allow the writer to have a deeper knowledge of what they are creating and how to make it more real to the reader. I'd learned quite a lot of this the hard way but, if you don't want to spend forty years learning the hard way, I urge you to get this book and use it.
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