
Real World Magic: Urban Fantasy & Why We Read It —
Shortly, urban fantasy is what you get when you take magical elements and write them into the real world. Urban fantasy is most often contemporary and set in a city or town.
Side note: Years ago when I told a friend I was writing an urban fantasy novel, he asked me to clarify what that genre is. You see, he’d thought it was black fantasy. Because I’m a black person from an urban area. Bless him, I’m sure he’s encountered more diversity by now, wherever he is. No, not urban like the hood. Good l
Side note: Years ago when I told a friend I was writing an urban fantasy novel, he asked me to clarify what that genre is. You see, he’d thought it was black fantasy. Because I’m a black person from an urban area. Bless him, I’m sure he’s encountered more diversity by now, wherever he is. No, not urban like the hood. Good l