It’s a Marathon, Not a Race…Ramblings and Updates

It’s been a week since Blackwood Marauders launched. Only a week. It already feels like forever. The excitement of a launch is hard to beat. Almost everything in this road to authorship thing seems like a game of lottery. Sending out queries, review requests, receiving a review and then anticipating the responses, even making the right …

Blackwood Marauders is Out Today! Some Thoughts on the Writing Process, and the Ever-Constant Writer’s Search for Validation

And for the rest of the month, is still only 99 cents! I haven’t promoted this book much outside of my own personal blog, and there are reasons for this. The main one, of course being that most of my time in the last few months has been spent with the production and promotion of …

On Prose

I am not a very eloquent writer, and when it comes to the process, there’s a lot I struggle to explain. I’ve been doing this for so long that a lot of it comes down to instinct–I write something because I know what I’m trying to express, or maybe I’m don’t but I’m reaching for …

Back to the Saddle We Go

It’s 1 am and I’m out of metaphors. Seriously, though, whose brilliant idea was it to write a half-million word epic fantasy trilogy, complex plot and all, and somehow tighten it around a character-driven, thematically heavy narrative? Oh. Right. I thought The Agartes Epilogues was pretty challenging. That one was a plot-heavy story that then throws it …