Self Doubt, Link to an Old Blog Post, Something About Spoons

I‘m rehashing. I’m being a rehasher. It’s a long weekend and I’m suffering from artistic withdrawal. This is a thing now. It’s a bad side effect of training yourself to meet word counts every day. Some of my friends liken the effect of a “writing day” to a drug. It’s that bad. So I’m twiddling …

What? New Book, What? WHAT?!

I think my team must hate me sometimes. There we are, going through sales data and brainstorming early in the morning like we always do, and I’m like, “You know what, let’s make The Agartes Epilogues Book 0.5 a thing.” And everyone’s all supportive and cheerful but I’m pretty sure they’re all groaning and going off …

Writerly Thoughts — On Ego, and Friendship, and Everything In-between

First things first: release day was a blast. And if you haven’t picked up The Agartes Epilogues trilogy over at Amazon.com for $2.99, there’s still time (if you want, that is. You don’t have to.) I found this article last night that I thought was worth sharing: http://nymag.com/thecut/2015/09/ask-polly-should-i-just-give-up-on-my-writing.html “If you’re a writer or artist or creative person and your work …

Sume alon gar Kaggawa and the Dilemma of Creating a Fantasy Heroine

I try to stay away from feminist conversations. Not because I don’t have my own set of opinions about the whole situation, but because I’m not educated enough about the various terminologies to accurately portray what I’m trying to say (which more or less comes down to “people can be whoever they want to be”). I know …

Traditional Epic Fantasy Heroes in The Agartes Epilogues

One of the challenging things about writing The Agartes Epilogues is that it is not written from the point of view of “heroes” in the traditional sense. The point of view characters are regular people with selfish desires, who just get caught up in the plot either because of their actions or through reasons beyond their …