Category: Character Development
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We are go! With magic of a different kind in this one.
I have started the process of formatting The Conflicted Conspirator: The Fight for Redemption! I’m doing the paperback first, as I believe it will be easier than the ebook. I need both the PDF of the paperback and the EPUB files for advance reader copies, so it’s all good, no matter where I begin. I’m…
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I am beyond excited about my prequel
I am just so excited about my prequel. I love this story so much. I don’t know what it is. Maybe it’s recognizing how I’ve grown as a writer over the course of writing and getting feedback from editors on the original trilogy that came first. Maybe it’s the fun I’m having joining old characters…
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Thoughts on developmental editing
I honestly kind of enjoy developmental editing. Not as much as I enjoy line editing, where everything sitting there in front of me, ready to go, and the hard work–as I judge it–is already done. Still, I enjoy watching my stories truly come together and take shape during my developmental editing process. I write first…
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I need to read “Pride and Prejudice” again
I’ve read Pride and Prejudice multiple times, but it’s been years, for sure. Possibly a decade or more. It’s time to read it again. Jane Austen is one of my favorite novelists of all time. Her wit, character development, and sense of the reality and the foibles of fallen human nature are pretty much unmatched.…
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“Magic Council” Excerpt: Vane meets August
Here is a fun excerpt that I read on my first Facebook live: Vane meets August. ***SLIGHT SPOILER ALERT.*** (Nothing beyond what you would see in a trailer) Again, nothing beyond what you would see in a trailer. However, if you don’t want to know what would be in a trailer, you shouldn’t read further…
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Prequel thoughts!
It’s been quite a while since I’ve physically worked on my prequel to the Herezoth trilogy, but after getting book three into shape, returning to it will be my next project, and I’ve been thinking about it a lot. It’s in the developmental editing stage–the first and deepest stage of editing that deals with story…
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Audiobook update: I forgot how much I love Laskenay!
As I write this, I have most of the audiobook version of The Crimson League: The Fight for Hope in for proofing. (It is now currently available on Audible! If it’s not yet on iTunes and Amazon, it will be there in a few days). I listened to Chapter 28 yesterday, “Laskenay’s Tale.” (Learn more…
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The first “Pirates of the Caribbean” movie is one of my favorites. Here’s how the series inspired Herezoth
The first Pirates movie came out when I was in college. I LOVED it. I can’t tell you how many times I have watched it over the years (though I haven’t watched it recently.) It has its issues, but it was just so fun, engaging, silly, funny, and adventurous. It was a fabulous summer blockbuster.…
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Character Spotlight: Darryn and Arbora
Darryn Polve and Arbora Anders are two of the major villains in The Magic Council: The Fight for Home. I wondered for a while how to approach this post, but I think I finally figured it out. What gave me pause is that as villains, they don’t rival Zalski Forzythe at all. But I realized…
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Character Spotlight: Catching Up with Hayden Grissner
Hayden’s come a long way in the fifteen years since we last saw him in The Crimson League: The Fight for Hope. (Consider this something of a spoiler alert, if you haven’t read book one yet!) From humble beginnings as a commoner from a small village north of Podrar, with a penchant for hunting birds…
Creative Writing with the Crimson League 