I thought an update was do. I’ve been writing, editing, redrafting, planning and preparing paperbacks. This won’t be a long post, more of a list of what is in the works. The fourth book in the Solstice Dragon World, To Harbor a Dragon, is now up as a pre-order set to upload at the end…
Every time I start a new novel, I find myself researching a variety of items, especially with the fantasy novels I’ve been writing lately. I have selected the 1700s as my template years for technology, clothing, architecture, and transportation. Picture credit: Okamatsu Fujikawa from on Unsplash Since drafting my newest fantasy novel, I’ve found the…
Would you consider writing a prequel for either of your series? Actually, I do have a prequel in mind for the Standing Stone series. It would focus on the backstory of the Wielder Wain which is an important event that occurred 16 years prior to the first book in the series. The focus characters would…
Who is one of your favorite characters from the Standing Stone series? The Mabra – cryptic old woman When I starting thinking about my answer to this question, I knew immediately who I would name and had a pretty good idea why I was choosing him. But the more I thought about it, I realized…
If your next book was not science fiction or fantasy what genre would it be in? I’m a bit split on which it would be. I write quite a bit of poetry. I have the beginnings of a series of selections all based on pieces of heirloom china I have received from various family over…
When is the next Standing Stone book coming out and what is it about? Book 2 in the Standing Stone series is in redraft right now and will be ready for the editing process very soon. I expect to have it uploaded to Amazon and my wide distributor Smashwords by the first of June. Jahl…
Opportunity: learn from failure However, you can also learn to help yourself and learn you are capable of improving. Let yourself fail; let others fail. Then give yourself and others the opportunity to learn from that failure. I read this great article about how people learn to be helpless through experience and environment. The piece…
Questions and answers. I’ve already written about the decision to stop working on my contemporary novel to work on what I thought was just a fantasy short story. I think a followup is due as just this week I finished the 99K draft of the fantasy novel. It took less than two months to write,…
