Writing How to Stop Worrying About the Query Letter 9 Jan 201918 Sep 2019 I've watched peers worry over query letters for so long that the fact I have yet to send any to agents or editors for a completed manuscript feels strange. Perhaps…
Story Updates Release Day: “Grotesquery” 28 Oct 201830 Mar 2019 My first ebook is available exclusively as an Amazon Kindle download. This sword and sorcery fantasy is a short story based (very) loosely on my research of medieval Wales. The…
Writing Post-Convention Thoughts and Reimagining 25 Oct 20183 Sep 2019 quotes and lessons from MileHiCon 50, a literary speculative fiction convention Modeling the World in Fiction There's a quality of fiction that's modeling--that's showing a model of the world. Author…
Blogging Moving Shadows Pen Name 30 Aug 20183 Sep 2019 This is an announcement of my new pen name-- --and a quick question-and-answer about it. Question: What Do We Call You? Answer: The A stands for several names I've gone…
Writing David Farland Missed the Point About Discrimination in the Writing World 20 Aug 20185 May 2019 A recognizable speculative fiction author published a blog post that I feel needs attention before it spreads through the writing community as gospel. In "Discrimination in the Writing World", David…
Story Updates Goodbye, Camp NaNoWriMo 2018 31 Jul 20185 May 2019 When I posted "NaNoWriMo 2018: Late to Camp", we were already in the second week of July. I'd committed to a new project and no cabin for encouragement. Feeling alone…
Writing Pans in the Fire, Hands Writing Ire 19 Jul 201811 Jan 2019 Where's the line between Horror and Dark Fantasy? The question bothered me earlier this week. Is my classification of darker works appropriate? I've always heard the Horror genre defined by…
