Most influential writer of all time? Of our time?
7/5/2024 EDIT: I wrote this before certain information came to light. I’m leaving it here, but please read it with that understanding. This is not a question of who is the best author. Nor is it a question of who Read More…
What’s your favorite type of weather?
This morning, Seattle was under a dense fog warning and in the area I live, visibility was just about zero. Which on hills and bridges, made for an eery Halloween-esque commute to the coffee shop this morning. Looking out across Read More…
I need to clone myself! (Writing conferences)
If you’re interested in writing and have never been to a writing conference, you’re missing out! Conferences can get a bit pricey, so I understand that not every author can attend every conference. I’ve decided to limit myself (at the Read More…
Mirror, Mirror Excerpt
This week’s excerpt is from the psychological thriller, Mirror, Mirror. While this isn’t a genre I normally write in, this plot line drew me in! When Henry died, Irene stumbled through the typical stages of grief. Shock. Anger. Profound sadness. Read More…
The Silent Frontier (Excerpt Available)
Over the next month or so, I’ll be adding excerpts for five different novels. For your first excerpt, I give you the opening scene from The Silent Frontier, a science fiction novel with the comedy and drama of a space Read More…
Boahim Map
As a nice little teaser for the novel, Assassin’s Blood, I’m uploading the world map I created. (I created it by hand in Photoshop this past summer as I was editing the novel, so I could keep everything straight. It Read More…
Ch-ch-changes! Publishing is broken…
As I sit back and type this, I feel like an adventurer in a brave new world. The publishing world is changing in ways that may or may not be for the better. I’ve spent the past two decades being Read More…
You suck. Do better.
7/5/2024 EDIT: I wrote this before certain information came to light. I’m leaving it here, but please read it with that understanding. An interesting conversation took place in an online writing community this morning about entitlement and self-improvement. I’ve seen Read More…
NaNoWha?
Authors get asked fairly often whether or not they support NaNoWriMo, or National Novel Writing Month. I decided to write my take on the entire thing. Feel free to read it and comment on it with your own two cents Read More…
More Revisions than I know what to do with
I took a break from Don’t Call Me Daughter to work on revisions of Amaskan’s Blood. I needed the break from it–the words were beginning to swim. I did finish hard-copy revisions on AB though, so now to actually do Read More…
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