Recently, my editor, Nina, asked me how I would describe Farideh’s archetype, for the purposes of marketing text. She made sure I did not ignore the email by mentioning off-hand that the phrase “femme fatale” was getting tossed around. I read a lot of websites about character archetypes, readers. I delved down the rabbit […]
Fair Warning: I’m about to get a mite sappy. Last week, I turned in the final edits on The Adversary, the third book of the Sundering (and the third book of the Brimstone Angels/Farideh series). There’s something about turning in a book that feels like giving birth, only somehow backwards. You’re completely consumed by this project, this […]
In honor of the Lesser Evils Giveaway reaching 120 entries, here is the first cut scene as promised. Why isn’t this in the book: If you’ve read the sample chapter of Lesser Evils, you have seen that Farideh is suffering from some bad dreams these days. The germ of these dreams is the memory of her learning […]