All right. Yesterday was the 18th and there was the Wheel of Time all ready for us to watch last night. So we did. But I had had some warning about it and so I was prepared for what was coming. We knew. And to be fair, they did quite well with some aspects of […]
One of my all time favorite series is The Dark is Rising by Susan Cooper. These are children’s books and indeed I fell in love with them as a child. They bring back Christmas in my father’s house. Being the beloved daughter. They transport me to Wales or England and I am once again caught […]
So some of you might have noticed the Epilogue of Sorrowfish. Wherein an elderly gentleman instructs Bastien to “Bring [Sara] to Los Angeles soon.” Really guys? no curiosity about that? Really? and you know I love conspiracy theories. LOVE THEM. These are fantastic plot fodder. I used several when writing Sorrowfish. Can you imagine I […]
There are new things on the map. The Draig are now marked. Sahxe is easier to see and read! The map will change a lot over the next few books, but for now, this is it. It is updated on the website for the book as well. Have questions? Let me know!
Ok, so if you’ve read my book, Sorrowfish, you may have gleaned some of this already. But I wanted to have one place where I define my magic system and clarify questions about it. I get asked about it a lot. First off, where it came from. Cosmic DJ. I started to realize the music […]
I entered this into the Writers of the Future Contest and it received an honorable mention, which is a big, huge honor. This contest easily gets more submissions than any other contest in the world, so any kind of recognition from them is high praise. I did end up including this story in Sorrowfish, so […]
I got in a discussion yesterday about Christianity in fantasy. The blogger I talked to had proposed Tolkien didn’t introduce Christianity in his work and wondered why then it was the default in so many fantasy works. So anyhow, in the course of the discussion I basically concluded that a lot of the early fantasy […]
