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I try to publish every Saturday at 8:50 AM EST. I also post a Flashback Fridays post every Friday at 8:50 AM EST.
- Absolution updates
- Jezelle
- Koen
- Life
- Monuments of Stone
- My Life in China Series
- Rhime of the Spire
- Sylvanus
- Thanatos
- Tocharian Gospels
- Writing journey
A Passion for the Impractical
I’ve recently come to the unfortunate realization that nearly everything I’ve ever been passionate about is something nobody particularly wants to pay me to do. Drawing. Painting. Music. Carpentry. Writing. Apparently, when the universe was distributing interests, I wandered into the arts-and-crafts department and never found my way out. Why couldn’t I have developed a…
Feeding the Beast
I need to write a blog post. That is, unfortunately, the entirety of my inspiration for this week’s blog post. I’ve been doing this long enough that I have written about writing, editing, publishing, marketing, worldbuilding, research, rejection, reviews, sales, failure, success, characters, covers, maps, mistakes, lessons learned, things I wish I had known, things…
Visitor Reviews of Lucardia
Last week, the official travel agency of Lucardia offered a carefully curated introduction to some of the kingdom’s finest destinations. You can find those here. This week, in the interest of transparency, we have agreed to publish some of our best comments from travelers who actually visited them. The Lucardian Tourism Board has graciously provided…
A Traveler’s Guide to Lucardia
So, you’ve decided to visit Lucardia. Excellent choice. Whether you are searching for breathtaking mountain vistas, ancient cities, unspoiled forests, vibrant local traditions, magnificent ruins, fascinating religious history, or the exhilarating possibility of being chased across a field by something considerably larger than yourself, Lucardia offers an unforgettable travel experience. Few destinations can boast such…
Flashback Fridays #14
This week’s look to the past was originally published on 8/13/21. I’m posting it again now because it is some good advice and a bit of encouragement that I also need to remember from time to time. Many, if not all, of us seek external validation. But perhaps the most important validation is within yourself.…
The Words That Remain: Editing Sylvanus
I have spent an enormous amount of time editing Sylvanus: Swords and Sons over the last three weeks. More time than I typically do for pure writing, and probably more than makes rational business sense, but I am in love with this tale and want to make sure it is as good as I can…
Flashback Fridays #13
I don’t really have any fancy commentary for this week’s Flashback Fridays post. I just like this one and thought I’d give it a little nudge. It was originally published on 8/5/2021 during the doldrums of COVID. Cheers!
I Tracked More Than Half a Million Amazon Keyword Rankings. Something Has Changed.
I know I am publishing a post outside my typical blogging schedule, but I’ve been working on this one for a while and feel it deserves a special place. For nearly four years, I have tracked where my books appear in Amazon search results. What began as a fairly simple attempt to understand whether readers…
Timelines: The Bane of My Existence
There are certain things that keep a writer up at night. Is this character interesting enough? Does this chapter drag? Did I use the word just seventeen times on the same page? And then there is my particular torment: Timelines. My formal Lucardian Timeline covers roughly a thousand years of recorded history, but once you…
Flashback Fridays #12
For this week’s Flashback Friday, I’m going back to July 2021, when I wrote my first “year in review” post about self-publishing. At that point, I had been doing this for exactly one year and was already trying to understand what I had done wrong, what I had learned, and what I needed to change…
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