I did a thing back in May, where I decided to pull Jaeth’s Eye from World Tree Publishing and republish it myself in order to join Mark Lawrence’s SPFBO 3. The decision was made in hours, and it took me within the span of two days, working around the clock, to get the manuscript in better …
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Marketing The Agartes Epilogues in a genre that thrives on a lot of cool ideas and concepts has always been a challenge. Quenby Olson’s review of Sapphire’s Flight a couple of weeks ago summarizes this very well: At its heart, it’s about its characters, caught in the machinations of an epic fantasy world that simply will not leave …
September is here, which means the start of our homeschooling year (my daughter is in 3rd grade! HOW IS SHE IN 3RD GRADE ALREADY?!). I’m also starting my second pass through The Ikessar Falcon in all 180,000 words of its glorious mess. I do my second drafts with an extremely critical eye–I normally do the developmental edits for a …
Launch day for the box set was a “success” yesterday, in that I actually made back expenses for once! And remember guys, the sale is on until September 8, after which the price will increase back to $9.99. So if you haven’t had the chance to grab all 1900+ pages of this weird ass character-driven …
I found the original opening to Jaeth’s Eye, which I wrote a good decade or so ago. It’s kind of amazing how much growth a writer can go through over the years. Back then, I felt that after eleven years of writing, my prose was pretty polished enough, but I didn’t realize how much yet I …
