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 …

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 …

Character Discussions: The Cocky Anti-Hero

One of my most controversial characters is Pablo from Birthplace. I’ve talked about this before: how I try not to create likable characters, and instead write them as honest as I can make them. I’ve also written a few “anti-heroes” so to speak: Enosh Tar’elian coming to mind. This is the sort of character who is …

Aina’s Breath – “[This Author] uses characters like a garrote to strangle your heart.”

At least, that’s what one of my beta-readers likes to tell me. Another one is more succinct: “Fuck you. Fuck this book. Go away, I’m reading.” I’ve got nearly less than a month to go before release date. EARCs have been sent to reviewers, and some reviews have come in, but I may have bungled …