It's sort of a tradition now that the night before a book goes live that I sit down with a drink (currently a Mai Tai to wash down my Sazerac) to reflect back on the book that's about to clutter up people's shelves. This is the sixth or seventh time I've done this, which I guess is an accomplishment in and of itself. I've stuck with this whole book writing thing quite a few years now. Five, I believe. And while I haven't earned the monetary success I would have liked (who has

I realized today I could better update my blog by, you know, actually updating it once a week. I've had a lot more activity going on at my YouTube channel (links below), and figured I might as well document them here as well. Bullet point updates from this last week: I've put up a "special edition" hardback copy of Worldbuilding for Fantasy Fans and Authors, which I had to do on my own since my cover artist is being all artistic about it. I wanted to put color illustrations i