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At long last, Book 5 of the Master of Fate is available! Both the ebook and paperback are published and ready. This is the conclusion of Tomas’s journey, but not the end of our time in the magical world of Arayel.
Through THIS LINK, or by going through the STORE page, you can order the climax of Tomas’s battle against Fak’Har, the Shadowed Mage.
No big message this week, I’m afraid. The Cold Pit Below is almost ready, and I’m dedicating almost all of my time to finishing the editing. I hope to get back to normal (whatever that is) posts next week. This weekend, I’ll be at the St. Peter’s Fall Artisan Fair. This will be both Saturday…
Writing is finished on the sci-fi horror story, which, by the way, will be called, The Cold Pit Below. I hate it. I hate how it ended up. I hate my writing. I am utterly dissatisfied with how it came out. I was about this close to trashing the whole thing and starting over. But,…
Did you know that Tolkien spent about 20years on research before he wrote The Lord of the Rings? Even when he sat down to actually tell the story, he still needed another 12 or so years to go from first draft to publication. This is the far end of creative research of course. Frank Herbert…
Don’t. Just don’t. There is a way to use cliffhanger endings, but the vast majority of the time, they’re either cheap attempts to force the audience to “stay tuned,” or they’re the result of the writer not knowing the ending. I’ve only ever encountered a handful of stories, either books or films, that did a…
Work continues on the new sci-fi horror story. I’ve gotten to the meat of the book, in which characters start suffering and dying. This put in mind of an important part of storytelling that is often either overlooked or ignored. The Ancient Greeks, who invented a lot of our ideas of storytelling, had a very…
As the homepage says, The Southern Invasion is now live. I’ve added a sample chapter from the book, FOUND HERE or through the Sample Chapters page. The selection comes from part 2 of the book, in which Tomas and the others have once more taken ship, and are sailing across the Hiltia Sea in pursuit…
