A New Release: Cinder & Smoke

I hope you’re holding up and that you and your family in good health. We’re doing alright here in our 2nd month of lockdown. The days are starting to become a blur of working and writing and pacing (an absurd amount of pacing. My wife is starting to worry about the rug) but hopefully this...

Flash Fiction: On the Evening of the Comet

It was nearly sunset when the comet streaked overhead, trailing ice and rock. My feet were sore after a day of hiking and eager to return home, but still I stopped and stared and wondered. At first I thought it was a plane, but the more I watched the more certain I became. There was...

Flash Fiction Friday: The Greatest Detective in the World

In a long, narrow building at the end of a long, narrow street lived the Greatest Detective in the World. He had never solved a single crime, but in his long life he had read countless mysteries, and devoured every true crime novel and newspaper report he could get his hands on. And he had...

Flash Fiction Friday: The Great Fire

The old man watched as the house burned. The fire spread from room to room in a crackling orgy of smoke and flames. The smell. The noise. The heat. There was a strange beauty to it—a fatal, blackening dance that consumed everything in its path. The old man was not sure how long he stood there...

Flash Fiction Friday: The Bone Collector

The girl wakes every morning long before the sun rises. She is eleven years old, or perhaps twelve. Birthdays are for other people. People with parents and sisters and brothers. She sees them sometimes on the edges, walking hand-in-hand, laughing or talking or crying. The girl never laughs, and she never speaks unless to whisper...

Indie Spotlight 2: SPFBO 2017

Hello again. Another week, look at the competition. Er...I mean another batch of fantasy novels from the Self-Publishing Fantasy Blog-Off. A chance to take a peek at the wonderful, diverse world of Indie Publishing and Fantasy. This week: gods, thieves, superpowers, and haunted furniture... Talent Storm Kindle Edition by Brian Terenna  Hundreds of years after the...

Indie Spotlight 1: Self-Published Fantasy Blog-Off

So, this is a slightly belated introduction/ post on the Self-Published Fantasy Blog-Off 2017, Mark Lawrence's third annual self-publishing competition extravaganza. 300 fantasy novels are sent to 10 different bloggers who will, over the course of 2017, choose 1 winner. The one book to rule us all. Or something. As Mark Lawrence himself says: “There’s no...

From the Desktop: Writing Update 4/10/2017

Hello all! Hope you had a good week. Mine was...variable. I haven't mentioned it before now because I didn't want to jinx it, but since 2/17 I have quietly been on a 46 day writing streak. Some days were as high as 2000 words while others were as low as 200. In the interest of...

From the Desktop: Writing Update 4/3/2017

  It's April already! How did that happen? When did that happen? Why? Meanwhile, while the calendar was turning, I had another slightly less productive week for a number of reasons, none of which have to do with the writing itself. This time I manage 4009 words which is less than last week but also...

From the Desktop: Writing Update 3/27/2017

Hello everyone! The last week of March! I hope you end the month on a high note this week. In writing news it's finally happened. Since I started logging and posting my weekly goals and totals I have squeaked in a under the wire a few times, but I have never actually failed before. Until...