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Brian McClellan

Fantasy author, Powder Mage

How we know it's theirs

Their 2018 r/Fantasy AMA, posted from this account

We retrieved 411 posts and 4116 comments from u/BrianMcClellan, dated 2012 to 2026, most often in r/Fantasy, r/powdermage and r/BrianMcClellan.

Best moment

u/BrianMcClellan posted in r/gardening

Last night I made 21 cups of raspberry jam from the berries I picked from my little patch over the last few days!

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More moments

A redditor wrote in r/Fantasy

On “I'm Brian McClellan, author of the Powder Mage Trilogy. AMA!”

how did you develop the idea for the powder mage concept? is it based on things you read? ideas you always fancied seeing played out? also how strict is your writing? do you go from a well developed skeleton to write story around? or do you kinda let it unfold as you write it…

u/BrianMcClellan replied

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It developed over a few months, if I remember right. I originally wanted to do something with Tommy Guns and sorcerers robbing banks, John Dillinger style. Then I saw Sharpe's Rifles and thought it would make a fantastic setting for an epic fantasy novel. My wife and I brainstormed the types of magic one would find in that kind of world and that's what we came up with!