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The Worldbuilder’s Guild is coming – a sneak peek.

By Nate 'Vancano' Smith 2 Comments

The Worldbuilder’s Guild is coming – a sneak peek.

  The Worldbuilder’s Guild is coming. Those are the words currently on the Guild’s homepage, as you can see from the featured image above. Back in August I added a free resource library to the Worldbuilding School. This was a beta test for the Guild, and it received great feed back from the people who signed […]

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Author Websites: Building A Book Platform You Control

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Author Websites: Building A Book Platform You Control

Creating a book is hard work… …getting that book into the hands of readers is even harder. That is, if you haven’t already built an audience who know, like and trust you. “Whatever you want to do in the world, you need influence to make your voice count…In the simplest terms, a platform is permission. […]

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World building or Worldbuilding, that is the question

By Nate 'Vancano' Smith 8 Comments

This is a question I’ve long asked myself, should we use World Building or Worldbuilding? Over the past few years the Worldbuilding community has begun to mature online and I’ve settled on my preferred version. When relating to the art, science and hobby of creating fictional worlds I use the term “worldbuilding” and have been […]

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