Susan and John Ruff, Fantasy Authors

Tag: writing

  • Writing Critiques During a Lockdown

    What do you get when you put five authors and the latest drafts of their fiction works in their local Denny’s restaurant? Nothing. Denny’s is closed for dine-in service in Southern California due to the pandemic. What you used to get was the monthly Emerald Cove writer’s critique group meeting.…

  • Can a Book be too Timely?

    My new novel is a problem. It’s a fantasy novel. The first draft was pretty much finished by March, but it needs a major rewrite before it can see the light of day. I also need to do some historical research because one of the characters has a connection to…

  • When Lario Met Martha

    Lord Larrin’s Daughter was originally intended as a one-shot story, a light-hearted piece about medieval highwaymen kidnapping the wrong girl: Robinhood meets The Ransom of Red Chief with a little twist at the end. Even though John and I are primarily fantasy authors, it was not really a fantasy story.…

  • What About that Pilfered Fish?

    Sometimes, as an author, you know exactly when and where a story idea hit you. In this case, it was late August 2017, and I was sitting in the Legal Sea Foods restaurant by T.F.Green Airport in Rhode Island. (See photo above.) Emerald Cove had decided on the theme for…