Recent content by Brandon S. Pilcher

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The heroine is very protective of her sister since she's the last remaining member of her family after a tyrannosaur killed their parents. So if you're asking about the story's theme, I would say it's about familial bonds. Anyway, I may have come up with a solution to my problem. Sometime after...

My current WIP is a prehistoric fantasy novel which is about a hunter-gatherer woman who must rescue her sister from a tribe that wishes to sacrifice her to their volcano god. This other tribe is a separate species of hominin whom the protagonist and other humans (as in Homo sapiens) of the...

I've been to SF a few times, and what I've always found is that it's either very windy or very foggy. More of a SoCal guy myself (in fact, I live there right now).

I never could get into beer. Probably the only alcoholic beverages I can stand are margaritas since they're sweet. More of a caffeine man myself.

I'm a sucker for strong warrior heroines, so I usually write settings in which they're not unusual or unheard of. I know there are more ways for a female character to be "strong" than to be a warrior, but my stories are generally action-packed, so I feel that a warrior character is best suited...

My paternal grandpa was part of the crew on a WWII bomber against the Germans. I think he got his leg injured during that. Still, the fact that my grandpa contributed to the fight against the Nazis is something I feel a bit of family pride in. Those Nazis needed to be punched!

For a while now, I've had a concept for a prehistoric-fantasy novel in which a woman must rescue her sister from another tribe that wants to sacrifice her to their volcano god in order to stave off the next eruption. The setting is one of those "One Million BC" fantasy worlds where primitive...

I'm partial to precolonial African civilizations, especially ancient Egypt and Nubia (we studied ancient Egypt in second grade), as well as hunter-gatherer societies since I'm such a nerd for prehistoric life.

I had a dream that there were volcanoes erupting all over our area, and we were evacuating by car. It was frighteningly vivid.

Oftentimes I research as I write. If I'm writing a scene involving a banquet, for example, I'll look up what sort of food and drinks people in that setting would have consumed. Sometimes I search for floor plans of buildings or maps of cities to help me describe their layout. That said, a little...

A young Egyptian lady is taking her crocodilian companion out for a swim in the Nile River. We know the ancient Egyptians venerated crocodiles in association with their god Sobek, but what if some Egyptians had also kept crocodiles as pets? The big predatory reptiles might come in handy for...

I admit to being very picky about books and therefore have a harder time finding ideal reading material than some other readers, but I do believe you need some exposure to quality prose in order to write it. A lot of the writing I've encountered online is so poor that it makes me question...