The First 30 Days
[important]I’m posting this two days before Day 30 because I have a guest author on Friday. I don’t like doubling up posts like that, so we’re going to pretend that January 28th is January 30th. I don’t feel like this Read More…
Monday Night Gaming: Fate Reforged
This week’s Monday Night Gaming: Fate Reforged, the newest expansion for the Magic the Gathering card game. Normally I cover tabletop games more than I cover something like Magic, but with the new expansion release, I had to tackle it. Read More…
Scrivener Saturday – Using Targets
This week’s Scrivener Saturday – Using Targets. With everyone covering keywords, snapshots, & other options, I feel like targets are easily overlooked, and yet they are quite powerful on their own. In Scrivener, there are two types of targets: document Read More…
Flashback Friday Goes Dark Fantasy
This week, Flashback Friday Goes Dark Fantasy. I’m back this week to cover Anne Bishop‘s dark fantasy novel, Daughter of the Blood (The Black Jewels Book #1). This book wasn’t published until 1998, two years after I graduated high school, Read More…
Book Cover Throwback: The Golden Key
This week’s Book Cover Throwback: The Golden Key by Melanie Rawn. What I Love about this Cover: There is so much going on in this cover by the always awesome Michael Whelan. Layers upon layers in this one. What I Don’t Read More…
Reading Updates
It’s time for some reading updates, as well as updates to what I’m writing, watching, and playing. With the release of Amaskan’s Blood and the promotion that goes with a book publication, I’m woefully behind on my reading! I read Read More…
Monday Night Gaming: Discworld
This week’s Monday Night Gaming: Discworld Ankh-Morpork. Two years ago when we were just getting started in our exploration of tabletop games, we played another Discworld game called Guards! Guards!, which was overly convoluted and annoyingly complex in its rule-set Read More…
Flashback Friday: Dystopias
For this week’s Flashback Friday, I once again welcome back author, J. L. Forrest, here for a guest post on how dystopias influenced him (and others) as writers. Two weeks ago, from a science-fiction writer’s point of view, I explored Read More…
Dreaded Differences
I’m the featured author over on The Oak Wheel today. I’ve also got a guest post entitled, “Dreaded Differences,” which talks about the prejudice I experienced growing up and how it influenced the writing of my upcoming novella, Class-M Exile. Read More…
Book Cover Throwback: Magician Master
To follow up last week’s Magician Apprentice, this week’s Book Cover Throwback: Magician Master, also by Raymond E. Feist. Both books were bound together originally as one book titled simply Magician, which I owned after I read them separately. (I Read More…