The Story of The Wolf of Oren-yaro In One Line

I‘m bored and procrastinating, so I wanted to play a bit and dissect the opening line of The Wolf of Oren-yaro. They called me “bitch”, the she-wolf, because I murdered a man and made my husband leave the night before they crowned me. I don’t like wasting words. The rare exception is in dialogue or introspection, …

The Agartes Epilogues: A Character-Driven Dance from 3 POVs

One of the first things I did when I rewrote Jaeth’s Eye in 2012 was to maintain the focus on three point-of-views. Now, anyone who’s read the series and is reading this will know I’m kind of lying, because I have Interlude chapters as seen through the eyes of the rest of the characters. But these are …

Writing Updates — Sapphire’s Flight On Its Last Legs…

I‘m going to have to push out some of my ridiculously fun-to-make Omakebites for a bit of an announcement. Just today, Sapphire’s Flight,  Book 3 of The Agartes Epilogues, hit 180,000 words. I’ve projected it to finish at around 190,000 words and it looks like it’s going to come to that. In any case, the plan …