Since I’m doing this within a couple of months, here’s the cover art for my *terrible horrible cringefest* 1987 fantasy novel SILK OVER STEEL, soon to be on Ream.ink. As befitting something that at at the time was a juvenile pastiche (I was 22, c’mon) of Patricia McKillip, Elfquest, Tanith Lee, Jack Vance, and Steven…
Read More Silk Over Steel cover revealMy writing platform on Ream.ink has launched! I write sweet to scorching sword & planet and space opera fantasy. https://reamstories.com/page/lfr7ennrzk There’s a Lonhra Sequence short novel already up on Tier One. That’s BLOODSHADOW. This is in prep for launching the sequel SOULBINDER in a month or so, chapter-by-chapter. My Ream site will start with two…
Read More The Lonhra Sequence on Ream!I’m spiffing up some older stories…foundational myths, if you will…from my Lonhra Sequence space-fantasy universe. One of the fun/infuriating things about hobby-crafting a universe for nearly 40 years, are all the small stories that make up those secondary worlds and their histories. Side-characters and historical footnotes who would very much like to tell *their side*…
Read More More Lonhra Sequence storiesI’m building covers for the self-published version of my M/M erotic romance space opera MORO’S PRICE. Bear in mind, I’m still finessing the art placement and text on both covers. Cover #1 links in some themes from the story (faceted diamond, star-field, male fighter in silhouette), but I still think it looks a little too…
Read More New Covers for Moro’s PriceAfter getting the rights back recently, I’m self-publishing my 103,000-word fantasy quest novel THE PURIST through Draft2Digital. When his wife is outcast from humanity, the last bard of a dying race thwarts a secret war and ancient gods to rejoin her. I made some minor revisions from the version that came out in summer 2018…
Read More Republishing THE PURISTTL;dr…I drone on about embracing one’s weird stories. Several writer friends confessed they don’t read many other writing blogs: “Because below a certain level of skill/experience, they all have the same bravado, bewilderment, and desperation to promote their work.” Above that level, writers’ blogs are often about other things than writing, an informative and often…
Read More The Sun and the Moon DebacleI’m publishing a new version of my sword-and-planet fantasy novel BLOODSHADOW on July 10, 2020, through Draft2Digital. At 40,482 words, this is a revised version of the first part of the monster 135K book that was on Wattpad some years ago. Amazon US buy link Amazon global buy link Universal buy link (for platforms other…
Read More Relaunching Bloodshadow!‘I should have died the day I learned my father’s name. I would have, but for the second of three gifts I inherited from him, and one I took from my mother. I think—I did die. I just didn’t stay dead. After 25 years, several titles, and several false starts, I’m rewriting and fine-tuning the…
Read More Light On Water, rebootedI’m looking back on old art pieces that stalled out, got trunked, went into limbo…whatever we call it, most artists have some. Why they stalled? All reasons are valid: ‘I made it for someone, we lost touch, I’m embarrassed by them now, they’re embarrassed by me, I’m not finishing this!’ ‘I bit off way more…
Read More Making, Unmaking, RemakingAfter a couple of decades of dithering around with it, ‘Needle and Sword’ is finally becoming a novella instead of a short story. Possibly a book, since I have a tendency to stuff too much into manuscripts. I’ll be honest: I’m pantsing most of it, since I have no idea how the two larger stories…
Read More Another book cover: Needle and SwordMy brother would not want me to sit still and mourn. Or is that a selfish excuse to keep moving, keep fighting? Survivors’ guilt is a bitch, folks. It sinks in claws and never quite lets go, and makes us second-guess all our impulses. Anyhow, if I want to go anywhere in publishing fiction, it’s…
Read More A book coverThanks to the wonders of random number generators, we have our winners for the book and jewelry giveaway, celebrating the debut month of my fantasy novel THE PURIST. The two formal runners-up are Green Dragon Artist and Stephanie D. You get a choice of THE PURIST in the ebook formats of Mobi or EPub. (If…
Read More Book and Jewelry Giveaway Winners!September 7th has arrived and left. That means I’ve now closed the jewelry and book giveaway I started a month ago. I’ll be turning the entries into numbers tomorrow, then letting a random number generator do its thing. I’ll post the results on this blog and get in touch with the winners soon! Thank you…
Read More Jewelry & Book Giveaway Now ClosedI had toyed with the idea of doing some side-character interviews during the debut month of THE PURIST, and I still might. But today’s offering is an old, mad, bit of fanfiction that spawned out of my on-and-off-fanfiction obsessions from 1991 to present. As I say in the disclaimer, through what I’ve seen from far…
Read More Meta fiction! Character studies! Cheesy writing!For the (very few) readers who haven’t run screaming from this page already, here’s a link to a new glossary of people, places, and things from my Lonhra Sequence books and short stories. I don’t include much pronunciation for these entries (maybe later). You can, if you squint hard enough, see a couple of overlaps…
Read More A Lonhraverse GlossaryIn addition to the lovely cover, we now have a blurb and pre-order links. The Purist
Read More Purist blurb!Here is the final cover for my 103K fantasy novel THE PURIST, due from NineStar Press on August 6, 2018.
Read More ‘The Purist’ coverIn a little less than a month, I will be able to aim you lovely people at buy links for THE PURIST, my upcoming fantasy novel from NineStar Press. I’ve seen the final cover version. It rocks. It rocks so damn hard, in fact, that it could comfortably fit into the catalog of any of…
Read More Purist countdown!We have a publishing date for THE PURIST: August 6, 2018! I’ve seen the first draft of the cover art from NineStar Press and Natasha Snow, and it’s *freaking gorgeous*. Added 7-9-2018: I have seen the final version of the cover. OMG. <Author falls over in twitching heap, burbling happily> It’s so good, folks. I…
Read More The PuristAt the end of June 2018, my fantasy novel Bloodshadow will be unpublished from Wattpad. The book has been visible on the display site Wattpad since late 2015, and had over 2200 distinct ‘reads’. It received some lovely comments and votes. So why am I removing it? Wattpad is a sweet, fun place, but it’s…
Read More Leaving Wattpad