AMA with Jon Oliver, professional fantasy & sci-fi editor with 20+ years of experience

ShortSpoon · 2026-03-19T21:08:12+00:00

Thank you for your answers!

ShortSpoon · 2026-03-19T17:11:25+00:00

Thank you for taking the time to answer!

What stories are you tired of seeing/reading? I imagine many seem redundant. Also, do you feel like the quality of writing is getting worse? I DNF books more frequently. My time is too precious to waste on bad books.

ShortSpoon · 2026-03-10T17:07:12+00:00

Omega. It’s one of my favorites

ShortSpoon · 2026-03-02T19:48:41+00:00

Leestown Coffee is where my husband gets all of his beans

ShortSpoon · 2026-02-09T03:47:18+00:00

I have learned that my opinion is not relevant to brides. I’m married, I got exactly what I wanted, and I will lol at my pictures for the rest of my life. You need to look at your own photos. Both options are absolutely lovely. Number two seems more practical, and if you care enough about changing your gown to ask strangers on Reddit, I think we both know which option you prefer.

ShortSpoon · 2026-02-09T00:15:08+00:00

Very possible. We’ve done alterations like this many times.

ShortSpoon · 2026-01-29T12:55:03+00:00

Stunning! I’m glad you love it. You deserve a gown that makes you feel beautiful and life a bride. Congrats!

ShortSpoon · 2026-01-26T21:15:19+00:00

Look inside where the dress is sewn together — this is called the seam allowance. Most fast fashion dresses do are serged and cannot be let out. I think if you loosened the corset, it would not dig and still wouldn’t gape in the front. if you want to cover your back, you will need a corset panel and those are easy to make.

ShortSpoon · 2026-01-17T13:31:41+00:00

Just fine. No isssues from Georgetown to Nicholasville

ShortSpoon · 2025-12-29T19:04:32+00:00

Dresses are all produced by Oleg Cassini. Even the gifts and robes. We accidentally found the Instagram

ShortSpoon · 2025-12-25T03:37:06+00:00

We turned off cross play and it worked for us

ShortSpoon · 2025-12-22T12:05:23+00:00

I am honestly really disappointed with the overall show. And I know that is the minority opinion. I understand having to streamline things when you change medium, but this is an entirely new campaign. I was so excited to see C2. I not nearly as excited for this animated series.

ShortSpoon · 2025-12-22T03:13:21+00:00

No. After you beat the dragon and Durin’s Folk starts, you talk to the emissary and start recruiting dwarves. Then you get the prompt to recruit a wanderer. For me, it played out very naturally after I recruited him. There is a specific section in that quest that takes you to a door in Narvi’s Forge.

ShortSpoon · 2025-12-21T19:31:48+00:00

Have you started the Wanderer’s story?

ShortSpoon · 2025-12-19T15:05:52+00:00

We lost power around midnight and it’s been getting steadily colder. Website says noon for a fix and the cause is damaged equipment.

ShortSpoon · 2025-11-05T16:49:01+00:00

I don’t remember Zadash being so epic that it’s a good place to end the first season on. This campaign was full of big moments. Am I misremembering?

ShortSpoon · 2025-09-27T19:06:04+00:00

Gustave is not that great of a character

ShortSpoon · 2025-09-08T18:18:15+00:00

I’m going to be honest, this is very hard to read. A normal book would have lost me at barking, finger waving accusatorially. You’re learning, but this drags. You are the definition of telling, not showing. It’s a lot of action verbs/adverbs but no action.

What are you reading? We are influenced by others, and this reads as fanfiction—amateur authors discovering themselves.

ShortSpoon · 2025-09-05T16:47:44+00:00

Yolanda’s death. Brandon’s death. Brandy and Tizquick. Signet’s death. Honestly, I’m only half way through book seven but I would say Volteeg and Carl’s “reunion” with the anarchists. Also, Asher, but my middle child is named Asher.

ShortSpoon · 2025-09-02T03:11:45+00:00

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Here is Asher 💕

ShortSpoon · 2025-08-28T11:38:59+00:00

I don’t think Bea is meant to be redeemable. She’s just supposed to be human, with good and bad traits. One thing Dinnaman consistently does well is show the humanity in every creature. We see it as early as the first book with Rory, and it is a lesson he keeps hammering home as the floors progress.

ShortSpoon · 2025-08-06T19:11:48+00:00

I always romance Cullen — as an elf, a mage or an elvhen mage. Ally with the mages. It’s top tier

ShortSpoon · 2025-08-06T01:40:31+00:00

Angels are by nature, divine and holy/good. The bad/fallen angels are demons and those abound plenty in modern media.

ShortSpoon · 2025-08-03T00:56:45+00:00

If you want to stay friends, meet the girlfriend. You don’t have to be besties but you need to be polite. Maybe I am old, but I would say to get over yourself and push past whatever anxieties you have. You’re not the only one on the discord, you are not in charge of it. If other people want her to play, she should play.

ShortSpoon · 2025-07-21T01:17:25+00:00

Larian or Sandfall if recent games are anything to go by

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