On April 30th I was thrilled to be chosen as the reddit.com/r/fantasy Writer of the Day. If you know anything about reddit, you’d know that it’s kind of a big deal because of how many people frequent the site. But what you may not know is that all I had to do was sign up and…
A real, actual query letter I thought, since I wrote a guide on how to get your book published, that I would give a real-world example and include an actual query letter that I sent out to an agent. When you are starting to work on yours, feel free to use mine as an example….
One of the hardest things for me after I finished writing the first draft of Gift of the Shaper was figuring out where to go next. Now that I’m officially a published author, I thought I might try and pass along some of what I learned so that more people can realize that goal as…
Previously, on Gift of the Shaper If you’ve been following my Facebook posts, you’ll know that I started doing a YouTube series for readings from Gift of the Shaper. It’s my latest attempt to try and add more dimensions to the book by giving you access to my thoughts behind characters and my process for…
Have you ever read an action scene that just seemed to drag on? What about important dialogue that seemed to fly by way too fast? If you’ve experienced either of those and been annoyed, you’ve experienced poor pacing, and you have a right to be upset. In this “Basics of Writing” entry, I’ll try to…
Writing a Book? Here’s Where to Start One of the questions that I get asked the most is “what advice do you have for someone trying to write a book?” My answer is almost always some variation of “the only way to write a book is to write a book.” And by that I mean,…
Autism Speaks Charity Walk (April 14) Hi everyone! On April 14, I’ll be participating in the Bay Area charity walk for Autism Speaks. It’s is an incredible organization that does some really impactful work including awareness, outreach, and treatment of autism. On a global scale, autism affects over 24 million people (almost 1 in 1,000) and…
I’m two weeks into the launch of my Epic Fantasy Gift of the Shaper and I couldn’t be happier. If you follow me on Facebook, you’ll know that not only is it my first book, but that I’m also well into writing the sequel. I meant it when I labeled Gift of the Shaper as “Book one…
