Author of The Relics of War, The Caein Legacy, & Wraith and the Revolution
Celebrating Human Artists My social media feeds have been packed with anti-AI posts for months now, but I recently realized something. With all the discourse going on about how bad AI is for the environment, how it’s taking jobs, and hurting human creators, there have been very few posts in my feed actually celebrating those […]
“You’re so wordy!” That’s one of my husband’s favorite sayings when we’re talking about my writing, and he’s not wrong. I’ve written and published a lot of words. And this is something that comes up in interviews I’ve done frequently, usually in one of two forms. The first is the question, “When did you decide […]
Sale Alert: Exile ebooks are $0.99! Exile landed a BookBub featured deal! It will go out tomorrow, but the sale has started early. You can get the ebook edition of Exile, book 1 in The Caein Legacy for $0.99 now through February 21! About Exile Andrew grew up in the royal palace of Novania, the […]
The Worldbuilder Diaries: Holidays and Festivals Since we’re headed into the real world’s holiday season, I figured now was a good time to share some of the fictional holidays and festivals you might encounter in my book worlds. I don’t have many featured in my books yet, but I hope you enjoy a few extra […]
The Caein Legacy Full Series eBook Sale: May 23 – 26! I mentioned in a post a few weeks ago that Exile hit a major milestone in April, and that I was planning something sale-shaped to celebrate. So, here it is! The Caein Legacy will be on sale starting tomorrow (May 23, 2025.) All series […]
Focusing on the positive There are times when I want to give up. When I think everything I write is trash, and everything I’ve done up to this point has been an exercise in futility. I’ve been struggling with that a lot lately, because it’s human nature to fixate on the negative and forget about […]
1st Person vs. 3rd Person: Choosing a Perspective The idea for this post was prompted by a recent review I got for Serpentus, in which the reviewer mentioned they don’t typically like 1st person POV books in fantasy (though they liked how I wrote mine, yay!), and went on to say that Serpentus needed to […]
Upcoming November Sales This week’s post is going to be a short one: Three of my books will be on sale soon, as part of the FanFiAddict authors sale, which runs November 23 – 25, 2024. Ebooks editions of Exile, Guardian, and Harbinger will all be priced at $0.99 (USD) for the duration of the […]
Dragon shifters and why I write them As many of you reading this probably are aware, I wrote a certain series featuring a dragon shifter main character (The Caein Legacy). It’s epic fantasy/sword and sorcery, my go-to genre to write. But as I’ve learned, it’s something of an anomaly (in more ways than one.) When […]
Reflecting on… Colin This post is the result of a Fantasy Indies prompt from a couple weeks ago, where participants were asked to name their favorite book villains. I had a couple people mention Colin, which got me to thinking… What is it about Colin that makes him such a good (and memorable) villain? I […]
