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...
Aug 22, 2018Minotaur HotlinksThere’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...