“Inspirations and Influences” is a series of articles in which we invite authors to write guest posts talking about their…well, Inspirations and Influences. The cool thing is that the writers are given free rein so they can go wild and write about anything they want. It can be about their new book, series or about their career as a whole. Our guest today is Django Wexler, debut author of the military fantasy novel The Thousand Names (which, spoiler alert, Thea highly enjoyed and will be reviewing later today). For his post, Django is taking inspiration from a Napoleonic phrase: March to the Sound of the Guns! (a phrase for a subordinate commander to march his troops towards the sound of cannons to get in on the battle). That is, Django is talking to us about one of his biggest pet peeves (and one of OUR biggest as well), that dreaded waiting period in which nothing is happening in a fantasy novel. Please give a crisp salute to Django, everyone! March!: Maintaining Forward Momentum Or, Things Should Happen In Books It may be unpopular, but I would like to express the following controversial opinion: I think that things should happen in […]