Fantasy and science fiction books and blogposts
I did it. I finished a draft of Alabaster, which I have been working on since....oh probably 2019, I am not sure. It's always so interesting to reflect on how stories come out. I wrote the first draft of "Viridian" over the course of a single NaNoWriMo, though it wouldn't see its final form for... Continue Reading →
Every six months I try to check in on my writing goals, and I totally skated right past that deadline this year. I don't think that's a surprise for anyone -- it certainly wasn't a surprise for me. I've had a hard time focusing over the past month or so especially, which I'm pretty sure... Continue Reading →
You may have noticed that I am providing regular updates in a thread on Twitter regarding my editing process for Daughter of Madness. I've linked them all together, so you can click below and look at my progress so far. I figured that might help you figure out what I've been dealing with. Starting rewrites on... Continue Reading →
To everything there is a season. A time for brainstorming, and a time for reading books. A time for scribbling in notebooks, and a time for typing. A time for writing, and a time for edits. It is my time for edits. You know that I have finished the DoM draft, and that I have... Continue Reading →
So the draft of Daughter of Madness is done, and the edits continue. While we wait, here is the second piece of the cover reveal, and a list of some of the books that inspired The Creation Saga or which The Creation Saga might inspire you to read. You can find the first piece of the cover... Continue Reading →
The subtitle of this blogpost should be: the good, the bad, the ugly, for reasons that will become apparent, but I didn't want to bulk that up too much. Suffice to say, publishing a book, no matter how you go about it, is a complicated process. When you are self-publishing, that process becomes vastly more... Continue Reading →
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