Fantasy as a Mirror

I was nearly five the first time I learned that words could make people disappear. It was a beautiful spring evening in 1974, an ordinary weekday in our apartment in Yerevan. My grandmother and I sat at the small table on our fourth-floor balcony watching our neighbors on the street below go about their evening…

Lost (and found) in Translation

There are moments when I sit at my computer, fingers hovering over the keyboard, searching for an English word that simply doesn’t exist. How do you translate the Armenian word, “մարդկայինություն” (mardkayinutyun), into a fantasy novel? The closest English equivalent might be “humanity” or “humaneness,” but it carries deeper layers, a profound sense of what…

Explore Works by FCRW Authors

See the published works by the amazing authors of the First Coast Romance Writers, my local writing group! CS Bennett - The Allure of Roses – https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/the-allure-of-roses-cs-bennett/1139786767  Leah Miles - Baby ConSEALed – https://www.amazon.com/Baby-ConSEALed-SEAL-Shelter-Book-ebook/dp/B0FVTXLF28  Vickey Wollan - Her Mentor’s Revenge – https://buy.bookfunnel.com/kqrbm5nu24  Maggie FitzRoy - Never on Monday – https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0C6HBDXYS  Melody Johnson - Sight Beyond the Sun – https://amzn.to/3S5MycN  E.A. Dicer- The Coven Eternal – Book of Roman – https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0FBDRNM8X  S.E. Smith - The Worlds…