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Published 5 months ago • 1 min read

Hello from Jonathan Ball

Worldbuilding Workshop in Winnipeg (the real WWW)

Hello, Reader!

We're doing a Worldbuilding Workshop in Winnipeg at Raven's End Books on June 8.

Myself, Chadwick Ginther, and GMB Chomichuk will be running the event, where you can learn more about how we approach worldbuilding for fantasy and horror stories (but most of all, how YOU can do the same)!

We will use our recent SHARED WORLD series as a touchstone for the discussion and tell you more about how YOU can contribute stories to our Shared World.

On that note, we'll soon be launching a new and improved SHARED WORLD website where you can find out more about writing your own Shared World stories. Some people have already submitted early! We'll tell you more about our plans for the Shared World soon.

In the meantime, don't forget you can get these books from Raven's End, either at the event or before, or directly from the authors (or wherever great books are sold)!

More soon.

In the meantime, as always, stay strange!

Jonathan

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Jonathan Ball, PhD

Creative Evil Overlord, STRANGER FICTION INC.

Author of stranger fiction. Advocate of writing the wrong way. Poet laureate of Hell.

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