September is here, which means the start of our homeschooling year (my daughter is in 3rd grade! HOW IS SHE IN 3RD GRADE ALREADY?!). I’m also starting my second pass through The Ikessar Falcon in all 180,000 words of its glorious mess. I do my second drafts with an extremely critical eye–I normally do the developmental edits for a …
I am taking ARC requests for this novel right now, in case you missed that post. This novel is going to be out on January 29, 2018, so you have plenty of time to read, rate and review, and tell your friends to pre-order so they, too, can laugh at the absurdity of my work. And if you’re …
One of the earliest lessons I’ve learned as a writer was to “trust the reader.” In the beginning, I didn’t know what this meant. How do you trust a reader? Isn’t the point of you writing is to guide your reader through an experience? Well, yes, the keyword here being guide. What I’ve learned this means …
By the time this blog post rolls out, and if I’m still alive and/or kept to my schedule like I’m supposed to, I should be nearing the halfway point of The Ikessar Falcon, Book 2 of Annals of the Bitch Queen. Right now, I’m only about 5k words in. Which isn’t a lot, but I only …
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My parents come from interesting backgrounds. My father was the middle son of a self-made furniture maker, who was able to establish shop in rural Philippines. Although life was plain, they had it well enough–my grandfather preached about the values of hard work, discipline, and precision, which culminated to my father becoming an engineer. My mother’s …
