June 21, 2021 Burning Books and Scandal for Sales: Some rambling thoughts The new wave of Shifting Sands is out! You can find it here under the Shifting Sands tab, or sign up for each wave…
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….
November 16, 2020 Creating Fantasy Book Covers As I move ever closer to releasing Shifting Sands into the world, I’ve had to move into dealing with some of the details that…
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…
