Thoughts on Fantasy is my way of sharing my fantasy obsession with other like-minded souls. It’s a blog about fantasy fiction in all its forms: epic, romantic, dark, urban, cosy, or otherwise. I also occasionally discuss science fiction. It’s not a review site so much as a blog about the genre itself, and its many curiosities, conventions, magic systems and invented worlds.
Nicola Alter
I’m a writer and avid reader of fantasy and science fiction. I grew up in a small Australian country town and also spent part of my childhood living in India. Now I live in the Black Forest in southern Germany.
I’ve worked as a TV production assistant, a tutor of university courses in creative writing, and a librarian at a foreign language teaching & translation institute. I have a BFA in Film & Television and an MPhil in Creative Writing. These days I write full-time and spend the rest of my time devouring speculative fiction of all kinds.
I’ve written three novels and am working toward my dream of becoming a published author. I’ve also been a staff writer for Fantasy Faction, and German translations of my articles have been published on Tor Online. My epic romantasy novel, The Songbird and the Crow, is currently on submission and my agent is Nicky Lovick at WGM Atlantic. If you’d like to know more about my writing and the projects I’m working on, click here.
Some things I love, other than books: cycling, hiking, learning languages, hoarding tea, train travel, history, cooking, stargazing (when I was a kid I wanted to become an astronomer), and coming up with silly nicknames for my long-suffering German husband.
Contact
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Review Policy
I don’t actually write reviews on this blog, only articles and round-up posts, so please don’t contact me with review requests. However, if you’re an author or blogger with an idea for a guest post on a fantasy or sci-fi related topic, I’d be happy to consider it!
