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I’m under the hammer today (that Workshop deadline just passed), so here’s an interview with me, Stina Leicht, Katherine Catmull and Donna Birdwell about Worldbuilding. http://www.austinchronicle.com/arts/2016-06-17/to-build-a-home/

I love coming up with maps, I love figuring out the history of a world.  Regardless of if you do your worldbuild from a top-down, bottom-up or concept-out process, to […]

Not to get all Goodfellas on you, but for as long as I can remember, I always wanted to be a genre writer. It’s funny, because the idea of writing […]

We’re now five months away from the release of An Import of Intrigue, the second book of the Maradaine Constabulary books.  Which means this is the perfect time for you to […]

I’m in an incredibly privileged situation.  Not only to I have a fair amount of financial freedom to devote time to my writing, but I’m unburdened by physical or mental […]

As a rule, a writer shouldn’t get too hung up with what happens on Goodreads.  You shouldn’t get to hung up on reviews or ratings at all. Shouldn’t.  Doesn’t mean […]

Does one really need to blog to be a professional writer?  Well, of course not.  Does one need to maintain some kind of social media presence?  Again, of course not. But […]

My brain is a collection of rabbits, running in every which direction, that I am struggling to gather up. Right now I’m working, in some capacity, on the two manuscripts […]

On some level, the problem of “having” to do a reading or a signing is a minor one for a writer.  If you even have the opportunity, in general things […]

Worldbuilding comes in three flavors, in my opinion: Top Down, Bottom Up and Concept Out.  Top Down is, for example, deciding that the world of your story is going to […]