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…
I wasn’t ready to have my mind blown this morning, but when I checked my email, I saw the following message: So, now it’s official: Gift of the Shaper is an award-winning novel. I didn’t think I’d ever be able to type those words, but here we are. Now, if you’ll excuse me, I’m going…
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…
Sometimes, everything just comes together. You start with a long career in the military, add a dash of sarcasm, a splash of an award-nominated novel, and a whole bunch of pictures of animals. What does that get you? Apparently, over 100,000 views and 4,000 upvotes on Imgur.com, one of the internet’s most popular image-sharing websites. I…
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….
