August - 2017

MY BOOKS

Beat Treatments

In college I had several foreign exchange friends from Japan, and I once asked them their favorite joke. Despite insisting it did not...

The Fantasy Conceit

An odd thing happened recently, something that shook me to my writerly core: I couldn’t come up with a logline for Star Wars. Yes,...

Worst Defender: Luke Cage or Iron Fist

Love ‘em or hate ‘em, comic book movies are all the rage. Marvel’s success at launching an interconnected universe with four individual...

Sneak Peek: Chapter Two of The Imbued Lockblade

Author'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...

Court of Broken Knives Fantasy Playlist

Novel Playlists from Fantasy Novelists treats each fantasy novel like a feature film and encourages the author to put together their own...

On 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...

Ode to Shannara

I 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...

Jon Snow VS Daenerys Targaryen: Best Ruler For Westeros

Spoiler warning: If you’re not caught up on GoT, you probably shouldn’t read this post. Despite the nearly Russian-novelesque cast of...

The 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...

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