fantasy Archives - Auden Johnson

Capturing Fantasy Landscapes with my Hiking Dog

Walking a path through fantasy landscapes. It feels like home. Each season brings its own magic that I can explore and capture. […]

My journey with fantasy map-making has been an interesting one. I don’t have a design background. Any covers, maps, videos, basically anything […]

I started my indie fantasy author journey in 2013. I layout books myself, design the maps and covers and upload them to […]

Creating a fantasy town doesn’t always mean several structures together in one location. I’ve created towns in one building, underground or a […]

I used to look forward to Fall. I still do, kinda. If you follow this blog or my Instagram account, you know […]

Since I started publishing, I’ve been creating my fictional world maps in Photoshop. There were alternative apps but I don’t think they […]

All the advice said writing a fantasy series is better than several standalone books. Despite, that, when I first started thinking about […]

The definition of a good fantasy story can be pretty arbitrary. What’s interesting for one person will be boring for another. Defining […]

Writing a fantasy novel often means world-building, even when you’re basing it off a real-world location. I have a love-hate relationship with […]

Fantasy writing lets you create any kind of world you could imagine. You’d think with the year we’re having, that I’d be […]