If you would have told me 15 years ago when I joined the Air Force that I would have wound up in San Antonio again voluntarily, I would have told you … that I believed you. Bet you didn’t see that one coming did you? Well that’s the kind of thing that you can expect…
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…
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…
October has been a great month for Gift of the Shaper and, by proxy, me! I was invited to do a reading and book signing at Clovis-Carter library and I was floored at the turnout. I was lucky enough to have been the featured author in their book club for October so there were some amazing…
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….
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…
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,…
