The Comprehensive Guide to World Building

Everything You Need to Know for ALL Genres!

Are You Ready to Create Your Story World?

All stories take place in a story world, no matter what the genre! What is your story world like?

Let THE COMPREHENSIVE GUIDE TO WORLD BUILDING show you how to create a story world that is believable, and genre-appropriate as well as appropriate to yourstory!

This THE COMPREHENSIVE GUIDE TO WORLD BUILDING not only explains why you need a story world, but also shows you the many ways a properly developed story world will enhance your story and deepen your readers’ experiences with your writing. It will show you how to use your story world to develop character, advance the plot, strengthen the story structure, and even deepen the theme of your novel.

Then the COMPREHENSIVE GUIDE TO WORLD BUILDING takes you through the specifics of more than 30 separate genres and subgenres of fiction, explaining exactly what the key elements are for each one, so your story world is exactly suitable, whether you’re writing a contemporary romance story, a hard-nosed police procedural, or a LitRPG story or anything in between.

This guide takes the mystery and the work out of building a story world, with suggestions for tools and techniques to make building your story world easy and fast, focusing on the essential world elements that your story and your story’s genre really need.


Where was this when I was starting out? … Definitely a must for beginners, and a great reference for intermediate and advanced authors, too. It’s definitely staying on my reference shelf, close at hand. 

Gini Koch, Bestselling author of the Alien/Katherine “Kitty” Katt series

A valuable resource for your writing library, whether you’re a beginning writer or experienced. 

Catherine Kane, Author, Editor, and Publisher, Foresight Publications

This unique combination of theory and practical advice guarantees The Comprehensive Guide to World Building will become indispensable to seasoned authors and beginners alike.

— Jean Marie Ward, Multi-published, Multi-genre author