Recent content by Brandon S. Pilcher

I like stories about exploring exotic places, as well as stories in which indigenous people defend their homeland from colonial invaders. I'm less of a fan of "Liar Revealed" plots in which the character tells a big lie, spends the middle act trying to uphold the lie, and then has their lie...

I've just started reading Robinson Crusoe, since I was a big fan of stories about people surviving in the wilderness as a kid. I knew going in that the book was going to be dated in a number of ways, but I was not counting on Crusoe being headed to Africa in order to purchased enslaved people...

I just remembered a character I created for artwork several years ago but never wrote into a whole story. Her name was Bernice Smith, and she was a Tuskegee Airwoman who fought the Nazis in WWII. I actually did want to give her a story which would involve her crash-landing in some remote part of...

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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.