Earlier this week, my husband asked me what our plans were for 2018. It was a serious question, not a casual one. It had been a tough few years, with life looking like we’d been walking on a tight wire fifty feet off the ground. I can’t even pinpoint the exact moment when it all …
Early this year, I wrote a short story which was a better way for me to express what I’ve felt over the last year–the last eighteen months, really–than screaming at people. I published the rest of my The Agartes Epilogues trilogy in spring, a move which has caused a lot of confusion (as if the series …
Like most writers, I suffer from self-doubt and low self-esteem more often than not. This shit can be crippling. Writers cope in many different ways. I think I’m a sucker for pain, because (apart from drinking) my method involves looking my critic in the eye and then saying, “Hey, you know what, let’s be friends.” …
Whenever I talk about my worldbuilding, I mention that it uses a lot of “Asian settings,” as opposed to the usual European-centric fantasy that is all-too common in the genre. But it’s not just specifically Asian fantasy; there’s a lot of cultures at play, all of which provide the appropriate background for whatever character-centric drama …
