Dragon’s Reach is LIVE! (and a fun intro through promotional images…)
HELLO! GUESS WHAT? DRAGON’S REACH IS LIVE! I know! It’s been forever. But finally, dear reader, let me introduce you to Dragon’s Reach! The truth is neither plain, nor simple. Sable, a reluctant thief from the slums, can feel truth when people speak. Unfortunately, no...
Moving cover!
Happy Friday! Book Progress: Dragon’s Reach (Keeper Origins Book 1) is off to the editor! I don’t envy her the task because, well, the book is long. And I’m a bit sloppy sometimes in my typing. 😬 I’m incredibly grateful that editors exist who are excited to root...
New Year’s Resolution Help
Happy New Year's Eve! Last year I figured people might need help making New Year’s Resolutions. So I made this little thing, and it seemed a good time to bring it back out. Personally, I resolve to keep fighting with ornery orcs.
Christmas present idea
Hi! It appears that this year is hurtling toward its end at breakneck speed. Every year I'm surprised by the way the last quarter of the year tilts downhill and sends us spinning faster and faster into the new year. It’s as though the years are only interested in...
Do you have a favorite book quote?
So here’s a fun thing I found this week. Apparently this has been available at least through Kobo’s e-reader for a while, but Amazon just announced that if you read Kindle books on an Apple iOS device (iPhone or iPad) you can take the passages you...
Is there anything better than humor?
Is there anything better than humor? Wait, don’t answer that. There are. There are things better than humor. All those truly, deeply good things in life: -The kind of love that comes alongside you and wraps around your soul. -The idea of redemption: The way something...
My writing process – in pictures.
I recieved an interesting question from a reader this week about my writing process: "How on earth do you create these stories? I’ve read your blog and info etc on some of your processes i.e. how you don’t see scenes as many others do etc, but that just makes me...
Character – fiction or real?
I always find it interesting when fictional characters are based on real life people. The trilogy I’m working on now is set in the same world as my Keeper Chronicles and will tell the story of the first queen. I’m basing her on the life of Empress Theodora from...
Frequentatives – a third time
We've chatted about frequentatives twice. Here and here. I discovered a few more frequentatives that I find a little gross. Gross Frequentative #1: spit/spatter So there’s spit, as a normal verb. Even when spitting is talking about oil spitting while you cook...
Frequentatives happening again
Since last week we talked about frequentatives being a word from a verb that happens repeatedly, I thought I’d talk about them more. Repeatedly, actually. For instance, the verb to crack, if it gets repetitive, turns to the frequentative crackle. I found three...