Romance, and Why I Don’t Write It In My Epic Fantasies

I don’t write romance. What? You don’t believe me? Because there’s this whole romantic subplot in Jaeth’s Eye? The one involving the guy who saves the (teenage) girl a couple of times, and she reacts rather predictably? The one that I’ve personally seen set at least one reader’s heart all-a-fluttery, and him not particularly the sort …

Epic Fantasies and Word Counts — Take Two on Why The Agartes Epilogues is A “Short” Series

I wrote about this a while back, where I talked about Jaeth’s Eye, Book 1 of The Agartes Epilogues, as being a “short” fantasy novel at approximately 118k words. Aina’s Breath, Book 2, finished at 128,600 words. I expect I’ll end up cutting a few hundred more words before the final edits. Sapphire’s Flight, the third book, is going …

The World of The Agartes Epilogues: Found in the Shoho Family Farmhouse in the Sougen Plains

Dear Sume, Kefier told me a little about himself the other day. He was born in Gorent and lived there for many years. For some reason, I thought he was born in Lon Basden. He is getting very good at speaking in Jinan. You’d think he was a member of our family! I can’t wait …