It’s been just over a year since my first book was first published, and I’ve had a few people ask me for advice. Seeing as how I’m about to publish my second book, I thought now would be a good time to wrap up all the lessons I learned from the first one and try…
Some of my favorite stories start with the words “What if” When I was a kid, I had a subscription to Marvel Comics, and one of the titles that came to me each month was the “What If” series. If you’re not familiar with it, it’s basically the Twilight Zone in comic book form: a…
April has been my busiest month since Gift of the Shaper launched, and that is saying a lot. But after all was said and done, it was exhausting but amazing. I couldn’t be happier. Let’s get into exactly why I’ve just about had enough of commercial flights and hotels. HeartThreads presents… More people have seen…
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….
Ok, time to flex my writing muscles, I said to myself. I had taken out my backpack, put on my headphones (on the Classical station from Pandora, the only music I can listen to without getting distracted), cracked my knuckles like they do in the movies, and went to work. …Or at least I tried…
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…
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…
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…
