So a weird thing happened to me during a conversation with a fan of 'The Cord' and 'Bind Them'. She brought up a couple of terms I'd never heard before, name...

Hello all! Let me first start with a big THANK YOU to my second readers for teaming up and reading 'Twisted Cord'. I'm getting some fascinating and thought-p...

I'm going to start with this graphic of Bridge Township because... I love that place. It's the snow-dusted early spring of Ora's first arrival, lamps light...

Since I'm in that hazy area between the law office checking for typos and "We submit your copyright application materials for filing with the U.S. Copyright ...

Well, a funny thing happens when you do an editing pass on your novel. Some part of you expects cuts to be the result, but what really happens is that your n...

Our wild girl is back! With King Ruel far away in his hidden Kingdom, she's made inroads in the Township. Her 'Northern Wolves' are doing well under her stew...

The second Folded Earth book not quite at the Library of Congress, and there's still potential cover-work that needs to be done, BUT... can we be excited tog...

This is just a quick check-in to let you know that while I did not, in fact, finish the second book of Folded Earth over the President's Day long weekend, I ...

Well, I'm definitely getting there! I wish I could share what I just revised, but it may help for me to note that, as complex as this scene once was between ...

Well, this is a beginning in any case! I'm working with voice recording artist 'Queen Kate' to get something voiced for a slightly longer advert in the meant...

A lot changes influence the project when you work with an artist on a cover. Through one of these strange and offbeat coincidences, I jumped at the opportuni...

Snow! I realize that no one here yet knows about this heroine of mine, and it's very early in the offing for her cover art, but I'm getting prepped. This is ...

Just a short blurb to let you know there's a short Cardinal Machines advert on the way that I hope to run in Twitter and Facebook (and I'd use IGTV, but they...

... is a common statement. It's meant, I think, as a compliment. But it's beyond me why people think that this is praise. Likewise, in the media, I keep seei...

So I've never really done this before, but thanks to my handy-dandy Schmincke watercolour set and Arches paper (holiday gifts both), and a heap of inspiratio...

I don't know, rightly, if I can upload an MP3 here. My guess is... no. But I've shared the sound file here: https://1drv.ms/u/s!Ah9EK2tUIbsflR6KN0AlJKg9zmdT?...

Just found it! This is an excellent example, if you ask me, of how I picture general Scinan metal work to look. It closely reflects dwarrow (or dwarf) crafts...

Just a quick drop-in with you to let you know that I'm creating a little map of the local areas that Ora's crew, and the King travelled through in Book 1 of ...

Well. When you start out with a project like this one, you wonder how much work it's going to be. The answer to that question, for me, is *a tonne*. But it's...

I do every step of publishing myself. But I’ve become aware of a host of people telling new writers that it will cost appox. 1000 dollars (!!!) to self-publi...