Last week, from May 11 to May 14, Chicago played host to the annual Book Expo America gathering of publishers, book buyers, and authors, and smack-dab in all the excitement was the booth for the Independent Book Publishers Association, an organization of indie houses that includes StarWarp Concepts. And though the ’Warp crew couldn’t make the trip to the Windy City, one of our titles—Terra Incognito: A Guide to Building the Worlds of Your Imagination—did, and was put on display on their main bookshelves. (Click on the photo you see here—courtesy of IBPA’s Facebook page—to embiggen. Terra‘s dead-center on the bottom shelf.)
In Terra Incognito: A Guide to Building the Worlds of Your Imagination, bestselling author Richard C. White (Gauntlet: Dark Legacy: Paths of Evil, Star Trek: Echoes of Coventry) takes fantasy writers and gamers through the step-by-step process of constructing a world for their characters, from societies and governments to currency and religion. Included is an interview with New York Times bestselling author Tracy Hickman (Dragonlance) that discusses his methods of world building, as well as his creative experiences during his time as a designer for gaming company TSR, the original home of Dungeons & Dragons.
Terra Incognito was not just the hottest #1 title when it made its debut last October at RPGNow’s sister site, DriveThru Fiction, but it then held the #1 position for weeks as DTF’s hottest title for nonfiction books and writers’ reference guides!
“I think Terra Incognito is a solid introduction to the subject of world building. The book succeeds in helping the aspiring writer in creating a skeletal framework for which to hang the moving parts required of a believable fictional setting.”—The Gaming Gang
Terra Incognito in available in both print and digital formats, so visit its product page for ordering information.
