I skipped a bunch of posts about my writing plans and progress in editing The Slaying of the Bull. They are interesting to me in a documentation way, but since many of those plans changed and The Slaying of the Bull wasn’t the hit I thought it would be at the time, I won’t boreContinue reading “Flashback Fridays #7”
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Chasing the Current
Sylvanus: Swords and Sons has now crossed 60,000 words, placing me roughly at the midpoint of the novel. After a long and arduous journey, Sylvanus and his remaining companions are preparing to cross into the Northlands and enter the realm of his brother, Koen. It is a major transition in the story, but also inContinue reading “Chasing the Current”
Flashback Fridays #6
In this week’s look to the past, I focus on the moment I received my first novel in hand. True to the nature of my life, it had a bumpy road getting there (it was a premonition of my future struggles with Amazon), but when it finally arrived, it was something special. Finishing a bookContinue reading “Flashback Fridays #6”
The Places That Surprise Us
Chicago was never high on my list of places to visit. I had imagined it as something like New York: crowded, gritty, dirty, and weighed down by the age of an old northern city. Large cities are not usually my preferred destinations anyway, so while I was curious about Chicago, I did not arrive withContinue reading “The Places That Surprise Us”
Flashback Fridays #5
By mid-April of 2020, two weeks into this journey, I began to realize that self-publishing the first novel I’d written, Vril, wasn’t a good idea (at least not yet). In the posts below, I began transitioning to reworking The Slaying of the Bull, the fourth book I wrote, and eventually the second book I decidedContinue reading “Flashback Fridays #5”
Writing in the Gray
I have never been all that interested in stories that divide the world neatly into good and evil. I hope that if you have read my work, it is immediately apparent. That may sound strange coming from a dark fantasy author. My books are filled with tyrants, monsters, witches, fallen powers, corrupted faiths, ancient evils,Continue reading “Writing in the Gray”
Flashback Fridays #4
This week’s look into the past was published on April 11, 2020. At that point, it had been exactly a month of COVID isolation, which is why I chose it. It seems like forever ago, but what a strange time that was. Up until that point, working from home was rare for me. It allContinue reading “Flashback Fridays #4”
Koen is home
After nine months of being traditionally published with Grendel Press, the rights for Koen: Quills from the Raven’s Nest have reverted back to me. I have already republished the book via KDP without incident. I was even able to keep my reviews, which was something I was very concerned about. To give the book theContinue reading “Koen is home”
Flashback Fridays #3
This week’s look into the past was originally published on April 9, 2020. I skipped over about a week of posts that were mainly about how the Island of Stone performed in that first week after publication. I chose the post below because it gives some insight into how that particular book rose from theContinue reading “Flashback Fridays #3”
Five Years, New Covers, and a Homecoming
I wrote a longer reflection back in May about five years of Dawn of the Lightbearer. That was the month I first placed the book up for preorder, and in many ways, that was when the Lucardian journey began for me. Though I might have jumped the gun a little, as the book officially wentContinue reading “Five Years, New Covers, and a Homecoming”
