Have you ever flopped around on the floor with an empty, corked bottle and a plastic toy dagger between your toes? If you have, you may have written “Chronicles of the Roc Rider”. During a recent interview with the local paper at a book signing, Read More …
Do you find epic robot battles and the flight of enormous dragons relaxing? What if they’re depicted in billowy cotton softness? If you haven’t guessed by now, yes, I’m talking about cloud watching, an activity I love but haven’t been doing as much lately as Read More …
You hear people say, from time to time, that they’re overloaded on a particular thing about their favorite genre. Thriller fans get worn out on terrorists, romance enthusiasts weary of love triangles, and fantasy fanatics occasionally get tired of dragons. The reasons vary. Sometimes there’s Read More …
I get inspiration for characters from a lot of different things, but the original inspiration for Tanin Stormrush suggested something quite different from what he actually turned out to be. Think back to 2004, and an action film called Man on Fire. In it, Denzel Read More …
I’ve been thinking recently about books I enjoyed as a kid. Animorphs, Hank the Cowdog, Little House on the Prarie. There were many books I read when very young that had a lasting impact, but fewer had more so, perhaps than Watership Down. On the Read More …
Readers who have been following the blog for a while may remember that last year in January I posted about the death of my betta Moonfire and how his passing encouraged me to rearrange my office where I do most of my writing. This #writerlife101 Read More …
For me it’s quite a bit easier to choose a favorite villain of mine than it is to choose a favorite hero of mine. I do have a difficult choice to make, however. I’m going to limit this only to books that have a completed Read More …
This is a very difficult question to answer. All writers say this, but it’s true, trying to answer a question like this is like trying to decide which of your children is your favorite. Nearly impossible because you love them all. Still, if I absolutely Read More …
For my first #writerlife101 post, I was asked to talk about best writing advice. After some careful consideration, I’ve hit upon what I think is by far the advice that has resulted in the most growth for me as an author. Think of everything you Read More …
A varied menagerie of strange and wonderful creatures awaits us in the world of fantasy. From comfortable standbys like dragons and griffins to more exotic specimens like dementors and Ogier, the myriad monsters and imaginative denizens that inhabit the pages of fantasy are often half Read More …
