I’ve been talking a lot about this little standalone fantasy book on my Twitter account, and possibly at least once in this blog if I can remember anything at all from last year (I had a baby! And I’m slowly losing my mind!); nevertheless, it’s now out in the wild! Available on Amazon Kindle and/or …
A bit over four years ago, I first released these two books out in the wild together like this. I thought it was apt to do the re-release together again, just like before. The self-publishing landscape of 2021 is nothing like 2017–it’s less forgiving of mistakes and visibility is harder than ever–but it’s a nice …
Story–yes, even an epic fantasy story–is about change. A boy becomes a king. A tyrant repents. A kingdom rises; another falls. There are thousands of ways to tell a story, but the fundamentals remain the same. Not every series requires chronological reading. Some stories are self-contained. I’ve written series like these–Blackwood Marauders in particular is …
A quote from Le Guin (out of the many from her that helped shaped me into the writer I am today) goes: Socrates said, “The misuse of language induces evil in the soul.” He wasn’t talking about grammar. To misuse language is to use it the way politicians and advertisers do, for profit, without taking …
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Back in May, my husband lost his job due to the pandemic. The only way to keep paying bills was to figure out how to shift to our side business full-time…which meant learning to run a business in an economy worse than the 2008 recession. I joke that it’s like learning to fly an airplane …
