Jeff Mach Writes

December 21, 2019 / Uncategorized

Is Dark Magic Evil?

(The base text is from my novel, “There and Never, Ever Back Again” – with…

December 18, 2019 / Apocalypse

Why do so many readers haunt libraries, old bookstores, strange corners of the world of…

December 17, 2019 / Elves

(Dedicated to Padraig. He knows why.) Once upon a time, there was a fairy tale…

December 11, 2019 / I assert reality

We certainly do drink…wine. If one is going to spend centuries acquiring a stylish all-black…

December 10, 2019 / Apocalypse

It was after we had slain the last living Orc that we finally had a…

December 6, 2019 / I assert reality

Magic is real, and I hate it. I hate what this is doing to my…

December 3, 2019 / dark lord

Plausible Deniability (An Apology For Non-Accountability in Fantasy Poetry) There’s something about us fantasy writers…

December 2, 2019 / I assert reality

The answer was there; it’s been there for centuries. But like most of the truly…

December 1, 2019 / dark lord

So! That was an adventure. And it was, as our sages foretold, horrible. Death at…

November 29, 2019 / dark lord

I’ve never been much for prequels, but there’s little bits of knowledge floating around. Is…