Nov 17, 2018Facebook Ads Case Study Number One – Ad CopyAds are a funny thing. As in I don’t look at them at all, yet still somehow expect them to work for me to sell my book. Perhaps it’s just...
Nov 10, 2018I May Be Through With Medieval FantasyAgain, apologies to both my readers for a few-week lapse there. The stomach flu plagued (totally a verb) its way through our household,...
Oct 25, 2018New 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...
Oct 18, 2018Update on Book ThreeTo 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...
Oct 5, 2018Self-Publishing and the Many HatsThis 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...
Sep 27, 2018Gerjet and WaerLong 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...
Sep 20, 2018Ode to The PrestigeI’m detouring a bit here in that usually these Odes are about more obscure books/ movies that were seminal in my development as an...
Sep 12, 2018Editing StrategiesWith 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...
Sep 6, 2018Flintlock 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...
Aug 29, 2018First Chapters ChecklistIt’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...