I’ve dealt with a lot of narcissists my whole life. An observation I made over the years is how the Filipino culture, and the difficulty of life back home and abroad for the common Filipino, has made narcissism almost a cultural trait. In my school days in Manila, “talent contests” were pretty common–kids who won …
I won’t make my current WIP a big secret: it’s the third installment to the Blackwood Marauders series of action-packed fantasy standalones. I tend to write the Blackwood Marauders novels as palate cleansers between heavy projects. They’re fun, action-filled fantasies (the old term was sword and sorcery), and they used to be these pulpy, plot-driven, …
This time, the renamed “Blood Ties,” which used to be Birthplace (published by World Tree Publishing). This is actually one of the first books I ever wrote–I started planning it out when I was the main character’s age at 16, and wrote out the first draft sometime after I had my first baby. I remember …
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Sometime last year, when the lockdown was taking up most of my brain space, I decided it was better to just make the most out of all that “free time” re-releasing my first epic fantasy book. Or, rather, the entire trilogy, which starts out with that first book, Jaeth’s Eye. Which sounds like a much …
