Fantasy Book Update: Return to the Land of the Mad Dragons…
The Ikessar Falcon is now available wherever you get your books from. Introspection! Dragons! Swords! Soliloquys! This book has all that and more, in spades.
It’s Still 2020 and I Somehow Finished a Book
One of my childhood dreams was to learn to write the books containing the stories in my head. The thing is, I kind of approach stories like I approach my artwork (which I rarely show to people unless I have to). A lot of feel and mood I can’t express neatly, so I spread the …
Nanggigigil
“Gigil” is one of those Tagalog words that doesn’t have an exact English equivalent. It’s a state of excitement on the edge of frustration, very much like the idiom “champing at the bit.” I used to talk about finishing books like I was slaying a dragon. Books were something I had to defeat. Something that …
Epic Fantasy Ramblings: On Thorny Sequels
I had maybe half a dozen blog posts, mostly about epic fantasy, planned all throughout…that gestures at the world but I kept putting it off. There’s a limit to how much one can say about things and sometimes all one wants to do is curl up in a ball in the corner of one’s bed …
