Dear friend and reviewer BookWol has created a site, The Tome & Tankard Inn, where she creates fantasy-inspired cocktails for every book she reviews. Predictably, she created one for Jaeth’s Eye, named after our favourite shitbag Enosh. I remember the plum wine references from when I was raiding my dad’s alcohol closet for umeshu (he has gout, he …
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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 hate full-on summer heat (there’s a reason I hid inside the house while growing up in a tropical country), so it was great that we received quite a bit of cloud mixed with the sun over the weekend. We had oysters, which were really fresh–so fresh you could taste the ocean in them. The last time …
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 …
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 …
