As a fan, I love to see the early drafts of my favorite stories, games, and movies. It’s fun to see an artist’s first ideas and compare them to what would eventually be their final forms. With that in mind, I thought that I would Read More …
This is a sci-fi short story that I wrote for a creative writing class in my junior year of high school. Despite the lack of scientific accuracy, I’m impressed by the teenage Lindsay’s ability to infuse some emotional impact into this brief piece. Enjoy! It Read More …
I’m very excited to announce the beginning of the fourth annual Lindsay Schopfer fan art contest! This is one of the highlights of my year as I get to enjoy and share the fantastic artwork based on my stories and created by fans from around Read More …
Short stories used to be incredibly important. For over a century, the path to success for a mainstream, “genre” author was through multiple publications via small periodicals until they were eventually able to accrue enough industry acumen to get a book deal. The likes of Read More …
It had been a dream of mine for years. I’d watch YouTube videos, thinking of my abilities as a writer as well as my theater experience and time in film school, and I’d think: yeah, I could do that. Turns out, it was hard. Really Read More …
I recently reached out to several fans to invite them to participate in video chats designed to help them connect with other fans of my stories. While some of them were very excited about the idea (click here to see the first fan-to-fan chat video) Read More …
This year’s contest brought in a record-breaking number of submissions from some of my artistically gifted fans. It’s always a thrill to see my creatures, characters, and other creations reimagined in a visual format, and I am so grateful to everyone who participated. Be sure Read More …
To help all the artists that are considering what to submit to this year’s fan art contest, I thought I would reach out to the fan community to see if they had any suggestions, and boy did they ever! Rather than trying to include all Read More …
I’ve been a storyteller for as long as I can remember. My mom tells me that I told my first story at age three, and I’ve found a story that I wrote in first grade about a horse that saves a cowboy from an angry Read More …
Time for more fun with the Google Translator! This time around, I thought I’d take a slightly larger portion from the novel’s Prologue where Keltin first sees the forest devil beast. I definitely have some personal favorites in this one. Some of it even has Read More …
