I have some exciting news for those of you who can’t read: I’m going to be on TV! I have had the incredible fortune to have been invited to do not one but two interviews. Milwaukee’s Morning Blend If you’ve seen Wayne’s World, you already know that the name “Milwaukee” is an Algonquian word, millioke, meaning “the…
November 14th, 2018 It all started with some pictures. 7:30 AM: On a whim, I post some deployment pictures that I had in order to try to tell my story on Imgur.com, an image hosting website. I had, just the day before, found out that Gift of the Shaper was a finalist for the 2018…
I was absolutely ecstatic to be interviewed by Hank Garner for his Author Stories podcast, mostly because I’m in such great company. Some of the guests that Hank has had on are writers that I’ve grown up with or admired for a long time: Brandon Sanderson, Margaret Weis, and Terry Brooks to name a few….
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…
“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…
“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…
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…
