Your free book is waiting for you! An action-packed fantasy book featuring grim swordsmen, dark magic and witches in the desert. Yours as a gift. [otw_is sidebar=otw-sidebar-1] And if you already have The Witch of the Sands, just reply to the welcome email and I’ll send you a different story. (I value your privacy and will never spam you. Of course, you can unsubscribe any time you … [Read more...]
Tracks in the Dust: My 2014 Writing Life
As we are in the final hours of 2014, I thought I'd take a bit of time to reflect on this past year of my writing life. This was a big year for me. Not so much in what I achieved but in the shift of what I wanted to be. Following the Traditional Path Late into last year and early into 2014, I was riding the euphoria of getting my story Jiro published in Heroic Fantasy Quarterly. Bolstered by … [Read more...]
Black River Book Trailer
While reading the Grim Dark group on Facebook, I saw a fun, fan-created book trailer for Mark Lawrence's Prince of Thorns. So I decided what better way to start the holiday break than by hunkering down with my 12-year old daughter and making a book trailer of our own for my most recent book, Black River. This was new to us (though she has made movies with her iPad at school for various … [Read more...]
Black River Released
Folks, I am pleased to announce the release of Black River, a full-length novel and the second book in my grimdark fantasy series The Hounds of the North. Black River begins where The Witch of the Sands left off and follows Shield Scyldmund and his aging comrades as they return to the North after a long exile. Black River is available on Amazon. Summary of Black River Shield Scyldmund has … [Read more...]
From Fighting to Writing: How Competing in Martial Arts Helps in the Creative Process
Learning how to beat people up has improved my writing. All right, maybe not exactly beating people up. But the lessons I have learned in my study of martial arts, and especially competing in Brazilian Jiu Jitsu, a style of submission grappling, have made me a stronger writer. Here are the top 5 lessons that I have learned by competing in Brazilian Jiu Jitsu that I have transferred over … [Read more...]
Top 5 Exotic Chinese Weapons
While my fantasy series The Hounds of the North takes place in a thinly disguised European- and African-inspired world, I have a strong background in the study of Asian martials arts. So this got me thinking. If my next series were to be written in a Chinese-influenced fantasy world, what would be the outlandish Chinese Weapons that I would include somewhere in my stories. I didn't want to … [Read more...]
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