How to Create a Species/Race

[JohnnFour]

Randy Elefson's newest course just released.
https://worldbuildinguniversity.teachable.com/p/how-to-create-a-species-race

If anyone enrolls I'd really like to hear your thoughts on the material.

 

[ELF]

Me too... I'm on his mailing list and was tempted, for a few seconds.
But I haven't even read his books yet - the reviews have been quite divided.
What I have seen hasn't blown me over, at least not yet.

 

[JohnnFour]

Where have you seen reviews?

 

[ELF]

Where have you seen reviews?

GoodReads and of course Amazon.

 

[ELF]

Admittedly some reviews have been glowing:
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/1938789534
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/2101085710

 

[ELF]

@JohnnFour and any others interested in Ellefson's books, the Kindle versions of Creating Life is now on sale for a dollar:

Kindle Countdown Deal
Price goes up to $1.99 in 18h 14min 00s

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B06XJRPF4T/

(Kindle books are quite readable in a browser as well, using Amazon's Kindle Cloud Reader service - or the mobile app, of course.)

 

[ELF]

Now the second book in Randy Ellefson's worldbuilding series, Creating Places, has been reduced to a dollar for one day:

Kindle Countdown Deal
Price goes up to $1.99 in 14h 25min 23s

https://smile.amazon.com/gp/product/B07518DBQ7/

Additionally the Kindle versions of Ellefson's novels are available for free.

 

[ELF]

Ellefson has just released a $1 tip collection for world building:

From his best selling series, The Art of World Building, author Randy Ellefson has collected some of his best advice from every chapter in small, bite-sized tips.

https://smile.amazon.com/dp/B0832PBZYM/

Note that these are mostly one paragraph long and collected from his previous works.

 

[ELF]

Ellefson has just released a $1 tip collection for world building:

https://smile.amazon.com/dp/B0832PBZYM/

Note that these are mostly one paragraph long and collected from his previous works.

This collection is now available for free. Probably for not for too long, though.

 

[ELF]

Randy Ellefson's Art of Worldbuilding 3: Cultures and Beyond is now available for the princely sum of free:

Written to help fantasy and science fiction storytellers, game designers, gamers, and hobbyists, CULTURES AND BEYOND (THE ART OF WORLD BUILDING, #3) is a how-to guide for filling an imaginary world with fascinating societies. It includes chapters on creating culture, organizations, armed forces, religions, the supernatural, magic systems, technological and supernatural items, languages, names, and various systems our world will have, from health, educational, legal, and commerce, to information systems. You’ll learn how to leverage real world cultures while making them seem original. Even those who’ve never invented a world will soon be masters as the author’s decades of experience walk readers through using pre-made templates that make world building faster, better, and easier to complete.

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0849M7Z7P

This is likely to be a short-time offering.