To Slay Anrhydedd is a short story I wrote earlier this year after I completed The Dark Thorn. It is set 50 years before the events in the novel, and features Bishop Donato Javier Ramirez, a character from the novel who is sent to England to interrogate… a mystery.
Since it is Dragon Week, I [...]

Fire-breathing mythical beasts are all well and good, but we happen to share a planet with a real dragon that is just as formidable as any creature of fiction: the Komodo Dragon.
Found on a handful of Indonesian islands, Komodos are the world’s heaviest lizards, and can grow up to ten feet long and a weight [...]

Artists are like dragons.
They are given to the magical!
John Jude Palencar has been producing some of the most gorgeous and wondrous paintings used for fantasy cover art. H.P. Lovecraft, Ursula LeGuin, Marion Zimmer Bradley, Octavia Butler, Stephen King, Charles de Lint, and Christopher Paolini are but a few authors who have had cover art [...]

While Stieg Larsson’s first book might have brought dragon tattoos to the forefront of the American conscious, these mystical creatures have been popular with tattoo enthusiasts and artists for many years. I recently asked some of my online friends to share their own tattoos, and explain why they chose to share their skin – permanently [...]