Aug 29, 2017Beat TreatmentsIn college I had several foreign exchange friends from Japan, and I once asked them their favorite joke. Despite insisting it did not...
Aug 24, 2017The Fantasy ConceitAn odd thing happened recently, something that shook me to my writerly core: I couldn’t come up with a logline for Star Wars. Yes,...
Aug 23, 2017Worst Defender: Luke Cage or Iron FistLove ‘em or hate ‘em, comic book movies are all the rage. Marvel’s success at launching an interconnected universe with four individual...
Aug 17, 2017Sneak Peek: Chapter Two of The Imbued LockbladeAuthor's Note: Okay, this is a sneak peak of book two I'm about to send off to my copy editor (so don't judge the typos!) so I can...
Aug 15, 2017Court of Broken Knives Fantasy PlaylistNovel Playlists from Fantasy Novelists treats each fantasy novel like a feature film and encourages the author to put together their own...
Aug 11, 2017On Writing Time(s)It hasn’t even been a full 24 hours since I wrote THE END on the rough draft of The Imbued Lockblade, the sequel to The Woven Ring in...
Aug 8, 2017Ode to ShannaraI know it’s en vogue to bash on Brooks’ books, but the word of Shannara will always hold a special place in my flinty heart. Sure, it’s...
Aug 3, 2017Jon Snow VS Daenerys Targaryen: Best Ruler For WesterosSpoiler warning: If you’re not caught up on GoT, you probably shouldn’t read this post. Despite the nearly Russian-novelesque cast of...
Aug 1, 2017The Birth of the Emets and the Engel Revolt[From the Biba Sacara Book 1, Chapter 8] Waer and her children hounded the five tribes of Sol and torment them wherever they were found...