I‘ve been at this indie writing thing like a ‘roided up pit bull since about Fall 2016, and that’s not much of a hyperbole. To put it into perspective, I was only about two or three chapters into Sapphire’s Flight at the time, and I only had Jaeth’s Eye published. Since then, I’ve gone on to finish and …
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In epic fantasy, do you prefer character or worldbuilding? Which is “better” for a story? I know, you’re onto me now. It’s a trick question. I don’t believe there should be a separation. I love characters in books just like many people do, but I think great character work goes beyond just giving them well-rounded …
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After two years writing full-time, I came across an interesting revelation. The loudest voices aren’t always right, or the best, or even the majority. I KNOW, MINDBLOWING, RIGHT? But now I want to stretch that a bit further when it comes to book marketing and promotion. One of the biggest game-changers for me–the one that …
I have been reading some of Jose Rizal’s essays over the weekend, particularly The Indolence of The Filipino. My husband is an avid historian, and one of our favourite conversations of the past seventeen years has been on Philippine history. I frequently get dates and facts wrong, which always makes him scratch his head, so …
I‘m reading two novels at the moment: The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway, and The Shadow of the Torturer by Gene Wolfe. It’s interesting to be reading these two books at once. One, because of Hemingway’s sparse prose, contrasted against this passage in Wolfe’s novel (written well over half a century later). It begins with: …
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