Category: Life

• August 15, 2025

  Meet Verony TODAY! Find redemption with her and the Crimson League

  She took part in a sorcerer’s coup, then changed her mind. Can she find redemption fighting with the burgeoning resistance against Zalski Forzythe? It’s pub day for Verony and The Conflicted Conspirator. I couldn’t be happier. You can find the book here. (Please note, if you have not read any of my other books, this…
• May 18, 2025

  My characters are kind of like my kids

  There may be some writers who only care about making money. They rush out book after book, trying to capitalize on current trends that will sell. Such (theoretical) writers cares nothing about the quality of their “art.” They care nothing about the stories. It’s all a cash grab. You see it all over the place…
• May 15, 2025

  Fighting procrastination…on why I write

  I’m in a weird place lately. I have lots of things I need to do, other things I need space to process, and I’ve not been able to motivate myself to really get going. In terms of writing, I really need to get to formatting my prequel. I haven’t formatted anything since my first editions…
• July 7, 2024

  Sometimes, winning is just showing up.

  With tons of changes going on at the day job, I’m feeling anxious and worn out, and I didn’t have a topic to blog about today. I’m tired. I don’t feel like writing a post here on WordPress. It feels like an unnecessary expenditure of energy I don’t have. So I came up with this…
• July 5, 2024

  Spain made me a beer person

  I have never been a cocktail person. If I’m going to have a drink, I tend to go for a simple glass of wine or a beer. This is because Spain made me a beer person. In my summers in Spain, I loved going out with friends and roommates for a glass of wine or…
• July 4, 2024

  Thankful Thursday: thankful that God is stretching me.

  Until the last couple of weeks, things had been comfortable for me at my day job for quite a while. I enjoyed my duties. I thought they were a good fit for me. I more or less enjoyed them and felt competent at what I had to do. I could clock in, do my job,…
• July 2, 2024

  My current projects

  I haven’t posted an update in a while, so I figured I would let you know what’s going on in my world and what my current projects are. They are all prequel and book three related! As I announced a couple of days ago, Book three of the Herezoth trilogy, The King’s Sons: The Fight…
• July 1, 2024

  Complete trilogy cover collection!

  I realized I have not looked at all three covers for the Herezoth trilogy together yet. So this post is just for fun, to see them all grouped together! There you go! They look PREH-TTY snazzy, if I do say so! The trilogy is three separate stories that take place over twenty-five years. I love…
• June 29, 2024

  I’m still in a reading rut, and that’s okay.

  I’m still in a reading rut, and that’s okay. I’ve been busy, and I’ve been working on other things, with lots of time-sensitive side projects as an author (stay tuned for surprises!) as well as a full-time job that pays the bills. The side projects aren’t going to end any time soon–which is NOT a…
• June 28, 2024

  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.…