With a tentative release date of 3/15, I’ve decided to release the first ten chapters of the audiobook for Gift of the Shaper — for free! Think of it as a test drive for that really cool car you have your eye on (the one that parks itself, and has adaptive cruise control): if you…
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…
I’m a little late in getting the word out, but I have some great news for those of you who don’t like how long George R.R. Martin is taking to write his next book: I’m faster. As of this month, I have finished the first draft of Awaken the Three, Book Two of the Highglade…
Given the recent attention that I’ve gotten in the media, I’ve decided that I need to do everything I can to get the word out there about Gift of the Shaper. That being said, I’ve got three things currently going on in the way of big announcements. And, wrapped up in a convenient little blog,…
The appeal of fiction Some might say, “What good are tales?” Tales, after all, are nothing more than words — and words, like the waters of the mighty Q’taha, disappear into the beyond. But listen, my child: this is no wild story spun by mothers to lull their children to bed at night. No. This…
The words “When does the next book come out?” are a double-edged sword to a writer. While it means that people are really excited about your work, it also means that you’ll be hearing until you actually release your next book. So the most recent time I heard it, it got me thinking: what I…
Back again as promised! Progress on the audiobook is coming along smoothly, and I’ve already had to do a few re-recordings from when I lost the ability to read (I said “looked up at the stairs” instead of “at the stars”) or didn’t like how a character’s voice sounded. But John, my editor, is doing…
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…
