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I May Be Through With Medieval Fantasy

Again, apologies to both my readers for a few-week lapse there. The stomach flu plagued (totally a verb) its way through our household,...

New Map, Who Dis?

As I mentioned last week, I recently engaged an actual cartographer, the immeasurable Soraya Corcoran, to create a new map for Newfield...

Update on Book Three

To both of you that read this blog, let me apologize for not posting last week. I'll blame illness, but there's a 84.2% chance laziness...

Self-Publishing and the Many Hats

This is probably the least original post idea there is for a self-publisher, and I’m sure if I googled “self-publishing hats” I’d be...

Gerjet and Waer

Long ago when glass was still new, deep in the woods there lived a poor man with six daughters. The oldest was Gerjet, a Shaper who...

Ode to The Prestige

I’m detouring a bit here in that usually these Odes are about more obscure books/ movies that were seminal in my development as an...

Editing Strategies

With my third book in the bag and just finishing up the first phase of editing, I thought I should probably address this stage in writing...

Flintlock Fantasy vs Gunpowder Fantasy (and a few others)

Over the last weekend I was lucky enough to take part in two podcasts, The Nerd Book Review and the upcoming Fantasy Unleashed, and in...

First Chapters Checklist

It’s a cliché that you don’t get a second chance to make a first impression, but what a lot of authors should keep in mind is that...

Minotaur Hotlinks

There’s an idiom we always found strange in that “laws are a lot like sausages; it’s better not to see them being made.” As connoisseurs...

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