I told you I’ve been busy. LADY BLACK concludes this set of Blackwood Marauders standalones. So while these books refer to each other and have the same set of characters, they’re all entirely self-contained and wrap up the plot by the end of each book. My other trilogies are not–the plot builds up on the …
We’ve heard all the jokes about the decade that is 2020 and 2021 combined, so I’m not even going to start. But on a personal level, damn, these last two years. The world fell apart while I was going through my tradpub debut launch (a whole series launch), and if I had any expectations about …
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Sometime last year, when the lockdown was taking up most of my brain space, I decided it was better to just make the most out of all that “free time” re-releasing my first epic fantasy book. Or, rather, the entire trilogy, which starts out with that first book, Jaeth’s Eye. Which sounds like a much …
Fast-paced epic fantasy is an oxymoron. I’ve been thinking about this over my break, when I finally got into the Witcher franchise after 8 years of trying. I think I can safely say at this point in my career that I know how to write plots. I slow them down for a number of reasons–mainly, …
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