The first time I found myself in a speedboat at night, I was going through training for the US Air Force, surrounded by guys with night vision goggles, and going about 40 knots. The second time, I was just trying to get home. Both times, I was sure I was going to die. Let me…
Ok, time to flex my writing muscles, I said to myself. I had taken out my backpack, put on my headphones (on the Classical station from Pandora, the only music I can listen to without getting distracted), cracked my knuckles like they do in the movies, and went to work. …Or at least I tried…
When my alma mater, Bellevue University, decided to do an interview with me about Gift of the Shaper, I was over the moon. Most of you who know me personally know that, besides the Jessica Alba incident, I haven’t really gotten much publicity. There are a lot of factors behind it (mostly because I’m doing…
I’m still reeling from the excitement of doing my first book reading at Cannon Air Force Base library! They had contacted me about a month or two beforehand saying that the copies I had donated to them were garnering some interest, and then invited me to do a reading and book signing. After dancing around my room in excitement for…
“Gift of the Shaper in the Wild,” is a series of articles intending to highlight the people who are the backbone of the success of Gift of the Shaper: my friends, and the people who were crazy enough to pick up my book. I couldn’t think of a better way of saying “thank you,” so…
The 2018 Nebula Awards have come and gone, and there was one clear winner: me. Sure, there were actual winners of real awards, but none of them came away with an awesome selfie with Name of the Wind author Patrick Rothfuss. And, as history has proven, it’s only a matter of time until I’m cropped out of…
“Gift of the Shaper in the Wild,” is a series of articles intending to highlight the people who are the backbone of the success of Gift of the Shaper: my friends, and the people who were crazy enough to pick up my book. I couldn’t think of a better way of saying “thank you,” so…
One of the best things to happen to me recently was when friends of mine started sending me pictures of themselves holding my book. There’s really no feeling quite like it, and I’m hard pressed to explain it even though I’m purportedly a writer. (Although using a word like “purportedly” will probably get me beat…
