I have always wanted to say that I’m an award-winning author. Well, today I’m one step closer to that goal. I just found out that Gift of the Shaper was chosen as one of the finalists in the 2018 Best Book Awards for Fantasy! I screamed a manly scream out loud, then continued screaming mentally…
Never fear, friends who can’t read good (and want to learn how to do other stuff good too), the audiobook is coming along slowly but surely! You may already know that I finished recording the audio for Gift of the Shaper, doing all the narration myself — but what you may not know is that…
Good news, everyone! As of today I have officially wrapped recording for the audiobook version of Gift of the Shaper! It took me just over a month to do everything — installing sound dampening material in my “studio” (below), putting up the microphone, doing all the voices, and doing multiple takes for those times where…
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…
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…
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,…
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…
