November is Almost Over…

And what a year this has been. The years before–2012, 2013, and 2014 in particular–went by really fast, but this one has been a slow crawl. Some days I wake up feeling like a slug. It’s getting really cold and we’ve been sleeping on a futon in my parents’ basement since March. For a while, …

Writing News!

We just updated the World Tree website. Take a look! Now you can see what’s been keeping us busy. And also, there you go, a sneak peek of my new book, Birthplace. Which, I know isn’t the sequel to Jaeth’s Eye yet–that’s coming up soon as well, though. I wrote this one in 2010 and …

Home, Sweet Home

By Western standards, the house in which I spent most of my childhood in would be considered appalling. Situated in a squatter’s settlement in the midst of the sprawling city, it wasn’t much bigger than the combined closets of some households. For so many years, we didn’t have running water; we had to get water …