Author of Hunted, The Relics of War, The Caein Legacy, & The Mage War Chronicles
A Little More About Exile It was about this time, one year ago, that I released an excerpt from the first book in The Caein Legacy, Exile. I spent much of my 2020 quarantine time working on the rest of the series, and it is now complete (four books). The process of querying for agents […]
The Writing Habit… I will be the first to admit that I have a (bad?) habit of ignoring things or people when I am focused on my writing. I don’t always realize how all-consuming the storytelling process becomes until someone calls me out on it. This morning was a perfect example. I woke up and […]
Here Be Dragons (A Response to a Reader’s Question) I recently received a question from a reader, that asked “If you could choose to summon just one demon (from Hunted) – which one would it be – and why?” My answer was very typically me: A dragon. As I began to think over my answer […]
Tales from the Lab #2: How to Clear a Micro Lab (Part One) To preface this particular tale, the reader needs to understand a few things when it comes to microbiology labs. Foremost, the lab is prone to many unpleasant smells; most bacterial cultures stink. The second important item to note is that any microbiologist […]
Reflecting on 2020 On this, the final day of the year 2020, I suspect many people are reflecting upon the past twelve months, just as I am. I will concede that this year has had its trials—more so than most others I’ve experienced—but there have been some good things to come of this year as […]
Tales from the Lab #1: The Coffee Mold I’ve been wanting to do something “fun” for my blog for a while now, something that isn’t necessarily related directly to my books and I came up with this idea a few days ago. As some of you know, I’m a microbiologist by profession, though a writer […]
Hunted: Two Months In It has been almost two months since Hunted was released, and I have had some great feedback on the book which I wanted to share with you all. I think my favorite response so far came over the past weekend, when one of my good friends called me. Before I could […]
Giving Thanks in 2020 It has been a couple of weeks since I last wrote a post, but I decided to take a bit of time off after the book launch of Hunted in October to work on some other projects. The three months leading up to the launch were incredibly busy for me, in […]
Halloween Writing from Quarantine Halloween has always been one of my favorite holidays, and I am usually very excited for the end of October to come around. I love the decorations, the costumes, reading horror novels and watching scary movies. The year 2020 being what it is, there will be no parties and no trick-or-treaters […]
A Week of Fires, Maps, and a Book Release It has been quite the eventful week, and not just in terms of my writing projects. I want to start off with some non-writing news that is important to me. As many of you know, Colorado has had an awful year with wildfires. The Cameron Peak […]
