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Last month I did a Reddit AMA in which was asked the following: When designing fantasy cultures, how do you create enough ‘alien intricacy’ to make them breathe? Every time […]

I’m not prone to the freak-out, especially while writing.  As I’ve said before, I’m pretty big on structure and outlining, but that doesn’t mean I don’t make discoveries and revelations […]

So, this past week I went and saw Fantastic Beasts And Where To Find Them, which was largely an “OK” movie with good performances.  But it’s got some fundamental flaws, that […]

This week’s topic is talking about someone who was a good influence on you early in your writing career (aka, someone you’re thankful for).  I’m going to cheat slightly here, […]

It’s time for us to take good look at my third series– The Streets of Maradaine– launching in March with The Holver Alley Crew.  This is a new series with new characters, […]

I’ve been talking the past few weeks about driving forward, about the endurance, doing the hard work. That’s really the only way books get written.  So then when the next […]

While I don’t get very political here, I’ve not made a secret that my lean is liberal.  So it’s no surprise that I’ve been none too thrilled with things over […]

It seems almost inappropriate to me to talk about things like process and business of writing and writing careers right now.  It feels… well, describing how I feel would probably […]

Folks, I’m not going to lie to you: I am far from figuring out this whole writers’ life business.  Each book is a new mystery, and new experience, and each […]

Happy November!  Some of you out there are doing NaNoWriMo things, and while I don’t advocate it as a great way to write a novel, I do think it’s an […]