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 […]
Typos, Glitches, and Postal Fails: The Unexpected Quirks of Publishing a Book At this point in my authoring career, I’ve published 10 full-length novels, 1 novella, 1 short story, and now, an anthology. While I’ve ironed out most of the issues I ran into early on, there are still so many things that can go […]
“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 […]
The Worldbuilder Diaries: The First 30% For most fantasy and science fiction books, a lot of worldbuilding is required. And by the 30% mark, my goal is for the reader to be fully immersed in that fictional world. But I also don’t like to share too much information too quickly. It can be overwhelming for […]
Flash Sale: Serpentus ebooks are $1.99 today only February 27 is the 2nd anniversary of Serpentus’ release, and to celebrate its birthday, the ebooks are discounted to $1.99 everywhere they’re sold. About Serpentus Dispatched to Stone Hill to oversee the city’s defenses among nebulous rumors of the Shadow Council’s threat, Owen Greenwaters must rely on […]
Serpentus: 2 Years Later Looking back at February of 2024, it was one of the worst months I’ve endured in a long time. I was diagnosed with extensive fibroids and learned I needed major surgery. Work was a mess between contract laboratory investigations, a lost shipment that required notifying government agencies, unexpected travel, and an […]
SPFBO XI is set to begin! One of the biggest indie fantasy book contests will begin on February 1. If you’re unfamiliar with SPFBO (the self-published fantasy blog-off), it’s a (mostly) annual contest run by Mark Lawrence with the help of 10 volunteer blog teams. 300 books are chosen at random from the submission pool […]
Let’s talk about “grimdark” What is grimdark? Grimdark is a term used to describe books, movies, and games, and it seems to be growing in popularity. Some of my books have even been labeled as grimdark by some reviews (though I contest that label for all of my titles. I’ll go into why I disagree […]
Serpentus (and many other books) are on sale this weekend! I’ll admit that it’s been a while since I last put Serpentus on sale, so this is a bit overdue. But it’s not alone: The authors of FanFiAddict are doing a group sale this weekend, so you can stock up on everything fantasy, sci-fi, and […]
The Worldbuilder Diaries: Research This may come as a surprise to some people, but some research is required when writing fantasy novels. While you can make a lot of things work by saying, “Magic!” there are still other elements that should be based in real world fact. I do quite a bit of research while […]
