Author of The Relics of War, The Caein Legacy, & Wraith and the Revolution
Current Projects as of March 2021 It’s been a few months since I last posted an update on what I am currently working on, and I wanted to share a few things this week on the blog. The Mage War Chronicles I recently finished writing the first installment of The Mage War Chronicles, titled The […]
Tales from the Lab #4: More About Mold I had intended to post a blog yesterday, but my plans got a bit derailed by a little thing called fungus. In other words, work was very busy and by the time I got home, I was too drained to do much more than order a pizza. […]
The Caein Legacy, Character Profile: Alexander At the beginning of February, I launched a poll on Facebook to help me determine which character profile to release next from my latest series, The Caein Legacy. The results came back with an overwhelming majority (75%) voting for Alexander (vs. 25% for Colin). Alexander is the primary supporting […]
Character Names in The Caein Legacy and The Mage War Chronicles I have often been asked by readers how I come up with the names of characters in my books. Given that I write fantasy, some of my books have some relatively fantastical and unique names, though others feature characters with more average names. Note: […]
Tales from the Lab #3: A Tale of Three Keyboards This month’s installment of Tales from the Lab features a couple of my coworkers from many years ago (names changed for privacy). To preface the story, it’s been a recurring theme throughout my career that chemists innately believe their work areas, lab spaces, computers, etc. […]
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 […]
