Now that I’ve reached a major milestone in the writing of my latest work-in-progress, I thought some of you might be interested in hearing about the process I follow when writing a book. This is multi-faceted, so I may end up having a follow-up or two in which I examine some elements, such as choosing […]

As promised, here is a new excerpt from my work-in-progress. I hope you enjoy it. It’s an unusual scene. The style is different than usual and that’s on purpose. See what you think of it and also tell me what you think the intended purpose is and whether I achieved it. I’d love it if […]

How is it Wednesday again already? I will try my hardest to remember to put up an excerpt each week from now on. In keeping with that, here’s a scene that follows hard on the scene from last week. In it, Harry meets a stranger who seems kind of familiar and who gives him some […]

I have to be the worst blogger in the history of blogdom. Not sure that’s a word, it probably will be eventually. I know it’s weeks and weeks in between posts. I also know that’s no way to get a following. I promise to try my darndest to do better now that the school year […]

Have you ever looked at one of those optical illusion puzzles where you have to kind of let your eyes quit focusing and look past the surface of the paper until suddenly an entire complex image takes shape? I remember the first one I ever saw. It was poster-sized and depicted the major events of […]

As I’ve said about eleventy billion times, I’m working on the newest Shalan Adventure. Technically, in the series’ original format, this would have been Shalan Origins #2, but as I’m working on getting the whole series published, hopefully in chronological order, this would be Shalan Adventure #2 instead. Sorry. That was a bit of a […]