David B Coe

Dark Eyes

Faith Hunter

Blood Cross

A J Hartley

Act of Will

Misty Massey

Mad Kestrel

C E Murphy

House of Cards

Of Birthdays and Taxes…

Jimmy Buffett has a song called “A Pirate Looks At Forty,” which is about an aging pirate trying to figure out where his life is headed as he slips into middle age.  Great song, and one I’ve been humming to myself all day.  See, I have a birthday coming up this week (Friday), and birthdays [...]

Writing Your Book, part V: Why Bother?

When last we saw our intrepid author, she was wading into the Slog, the great morass of storytelling, character development, and worldbuilding that stretched to the imaginative horizon, keeping her from her ambitions.  Armed only with a keyboard, a thesaurus, and her wits, she strode forth, prepared to face down the horrors which, according to [...]

Writing Your Book, part IV: The Leading Edge of the Slog

It’s been a few weeks since my last post in the “Writing Your Book” series.  When we left off, we had done the prep work, found our voice, and had finally gotten down to working on the opening lines and pages.  At this point we’ve had some time to get to work on the meat [...]

Shameless Self-Promotion and the Wonderful World of Branding

As promised (or would that  be “threatened”?) I’m doing another promotional post today, to mark tomorrow’s release of the third and final book in my Blood of the Southlands trilogy.  The book is called The Dark-Eyes’ War, and it is, at least for now, the final installment in the long-running epic fantasy story arc that [...]

You Can’t Make This Stuff Up

I have three stories for you. I’ll give them to you chronologically.

1) My brothers and their families came to visit us for the holidays this year and the brother who is closest to me in age stayed at our house. He and I are very close, and we lead kind of parallel [...]

Promotion Time and Publishing Wars

This week I’m taking a short break from the “Writing Your Book” series to post about something else.  Originally, this was going to be a simple self-promotion post.  I have a book coming out this week — the mass market paperback release of The Horsemen’s Gambit, book II in my Blood of the Southlands trilogy. [...]