Category: Updates

• May 1, 2024

  My least favorite things about KDP Select

  Yesterday was the positive. Today, the negative. I’m happy, as an author, to be enrolled in KDP Select, and I don’t have any plans to disenroll at this time. That said, there are things I don’t like about it. The main thing I don’t like is the Countdown Deal–the option to lower the price of…
• April 29, 2024

  Character Spotlight: August Hincken

  August is one my favorite characters that I’ve written about. She comes so far and she grows and learns so much over the course of The Magic Council: The Fight for Home. I love August on her own, for her own sake. And I love her with Vane. She doubts herself a lot. She tends…
• April 23, 2024

  Here’s why I’m blogging daily again

  You may have noticed I’m back! I’ve been blogging daily again for about a week now. There are two principal reasons for this. The first is that I pay for the domain and the platform. I mention this blog/website in the back matter of my books, directing readers here as one of the best places…
• April 19, 2024

  Confession: I haven’t been reading much

  I haven’t read much fiction in months. Not since December and finishing “Jurassic Park” and “The Lost World.” I haven’t read much at all, and what I have read has been more of a spiritual bent: G.K. Chesterton, John Henry Newman. I’ve put reading fiction on the back burner. I should get back into reading…
• April 13, 2024

  Why book two of my trilogy is my favorite

  Book two of any trilogy tends to be my favorite. Consider “The Two Towers” and “The Empire Strikes Back,” just to name a couple of examples. But there are reasons I have a particular love of book of my own Herezoth trilogy. Here are just a few spoiler-free reasons for that. Needless to say, I…
• March 8, 2024

  My book is FREE March 8-10! Feel free to take advantage of the gift!

  Today through Sunday, “The Crimson League: The Fight for Hope” is free to download on Kindle. You can get it here. Why should you? First, let that cover pull you in 🙂 Second, some common themes running through reviews and feedback have been heartening. It’s bingeworthy. Someone who gave it to their aunt said she…
• March 2, 2024

  FIGHT FOR HOME (AND HEREZOTH) WITH “THE MAGIC COUNCIL” ON MAY 30!

  Please mark your calendars for May 30, and help me spread the word! In “The Magic Council: The Fight for Home,” the second installment of the Herezoth trilogy, the stakes soar higher as young sorcerer Vane Unsten returns to his homeland, Herezoth. Amidst political turmoil and the shadow of a secret society’s sinister machinations, Vane…
• February 5, 2024

  Update: working on front and back matter

  I’m working on front and back matter for book two (“The Magic Council: The Fight for Home”) and I finally figured out who to dedicate it to. My Church family. They’ve given me a home. They support and encourage me in the absolutely most important things. They are my support system in the spiritual battles…
• February 2, 2024

  COVER REVEAL!!!!!!!!

  Here we go, y’all! I’m so excited to reveal the cover of book two of the Herewith trilogy What do you think!? Please let me know. I’m so excited. I’m thrilled. It is PERFECT for the theme, tone, and overall idea of what the story is: a clean YA coming of age love story. But…
• January 29, 2024

  Sometimes you just have to wait and let the solution to a plot issue come to you

  As I write this, I have FINALLY figured out how to close out a subplot I am trying to add to the prequel to my Herezoth trilogy. General Grombach, who features in The Crimson League: The Fight for Hope, has some serious plot armor in the prequel, and it was causing me issues. I couldn’t…