March 15, 2021 Lessons Learned: About Writing an “Unstable” E-book I can’t believe that it’s almost three months since Shifting Sands was first published! And you know what that means, right? Despite a catastrophic…
February 8, 2021 Book Review: S. by JJ Abrams and Doug Dorst For many readers, Shifting Sands might seem original – like it’s doing something new – and in some ways it is. I haven’t found…
February 1, 2021 The evolution of storytelling: The Secret Garden case study I’ve been trying to read more classics lately. It’s part of my on-going writerly self-improvement journey, which includes reading more diverse fantasy, reading more authors of colour, and reading more classics….
December 14, 2020 The hopes of an indie author There were a couple of interesting Twitter discussions this week. The first post I saw argued that any author claiming not to care about…
December 8, 2020 Shifting Sands Excerpt – Prologue As we race ever closer to the publication date of Shifting Sands – which you can see announced in the book trailer on Twitter…
November 23, 2020 Rambling About… How things are going It’s been a busy week for me and, while I’d normally prep the week’s blog post by Sunday at the latest, here I am…
November 18, 2020 Revealing the Shifting Sands Covers Ready to see the Shifting Sands book covers? I’m excited (and a little terrified) to finally show them to you. If all you’re here…
September 21, 2020 Author intention and “boring” books This week’s post is vaguely a follow-on from last week’s discussion about R. F. Kuang’s The Poppy War and fantasy/familiarity. The whole review situation…