Boy, I’m doing a terrible job of sticking to my resolutions. But the Sundered Book Club has been discussing The Adversary over on Goodreads, and they’ve gotten past the point where I can post some cut scenes! Also The Reaver comes out next week, and I’d rather get these out before then, so you can all focus on that. […]
Part of “don’t worry so much about what people might think” also includes not editing myself into a frothing mess. (Acquaintances can probably all cite times I’ve sent an email, only to follow up with a second email an hour later, rephrasing what I was trying to say. It’s probably more obnoxious than whatever I […]
Happy New Year, readers! It’s 2014, which will hopefully see the return of all the great things about 2013 and chuck all the crummy stuff. Time to think about resolutions! Fortunately, I know myself, and none of my resolutions are “Be more punctual,” because this is already a day late. Clean my computer screen. Done! […]
At the moment, we have a problem, dear readers. A distribution issue has left Amazon without any stock of The Adversary hardcover. If you pre-ordered from them, you have likely gotten an email by now informing you it will be 3-5 weeks before you receive your books. If you were planning to order this week, […]
Today is The Adversary’s book birthday! Hooray! I’ve already shown you piles of excerpts (mountains even!). I’ve already gone on about writing it. I’ve done a bunch of interviews with wonderful folks and had still more wonderful folks review it. (Barnes & Noble even put it on their list of the season’s best Fantasy and Science Fiction AND […]
WARNING: This post contains spoilers. Except I don’t think they should be spoilers, which is why I’m going to go ahead and spoil them. By now, I may have gotten some of you hooked on the excerpts, so in fairness to that, I will lead with an excerpt from Mehen’s POV, and follow with the […]
The first book with Farideh in it, Brimstone Angels, came together during a time of serious upheaval in my life (a Sundering if you will)*. I was perhaps a third of the way through the first draft when I was abruptly laid off from my job. Since we had all believed at the […]
I have already written about what it’s like to write about Lorcan. Twice, in fact. Moreso than any other character, Lorcan has the sort of voice that gets thrown off-balance very easily. There is so much dragging him toward being the hero–enough that I’ve definitely seen readers claim he’s sweet or doting or even […]
I had a conversation with another author once about “warrior women”—about the trope as it exists and the ways to subvert or twist it. Or more specifically the ways trying to subvert or twist it can make the whole character collapse into a pile of “huh?” A Warrior Woman is often, after all, given characteristics […]
When it came time to choose an excerpt to post as a reward for reaching $750 in donations for Children’s Miracle Network and Extra Life, this is the one that leapt to mind. It treads on the edge of being spoilery, but doesn’t cross it. Though I don’t promise it won’t make you think about […]