Sneak Peek from Today’s WIP

I won’t make my current WIP a big secret: it’s the third installment to the Blackwood Marauders series of action-packed fantasy standalones. I tend to write the Blackwood Marauders novels as palate cleansers between heavy projects. They’re fun, action-filled fantasies (the old term was sword and sorcery), and they used to be these pulpy, plot-driven, …

What Self-Publishing Looks Like in 2023

I sometimes can’t believe I’ve been on this grind for at least six years. Six years ever since I started taking my self-publishing journey seriously. Six years ever since I burned all the ships, so to speak, and said goodbye to my engineering career so I could focus on writing full-time, with no guarantees that …

Yet Another Re-Release: Blood Ties, a YA Horror/Urban Fantasy Thing

This time, the renamed “Blood Ties,” which used to be Birthplace (published by World Tree Publishing). This is actually one of the first books I ever wrote–I started planning it out when I was the main character’s age at 16, and wrote out the first draft sometime after I had my first baby. I remember …

Fantasy Book Update: Legacy of the Lost Mage

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 …