Category: My Worlds
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Dress Code: An Urban Dragon short
The way the Urban Dragon series was formatted required a lot of hard choices about what moments I showed and what would be lost in between. This is one of those little moments that I never got the chance to sneak in there, between Arkay and Meph sometime during the…
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Dealmaker’s Gambit: The Peppercorn Saga
There was a subplot in the Dealmaker’s Gambit that had to be cut because I just couldn’t get it to gel the way I wanted it to. The TL;DR was that Irora had Zag make a number of talismans into peppercorns and plant them in high-end restaurants, resulting in a…
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Playlist – the Dealmaker’s Gambit
I don’t often write while listening to music, but I do use music to get me in the right headspace to start writing. A few highlights: Child of Ashes by Madds Buckley The vocal quality of this piece is what I have in mind when I think of Zag’s voice,…
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On Names: Imaginary Worlds
So what exactly lured me down this rabbit hole of names and their political implications?
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Sixty Second Saga: Between the Particles
It’s been a long time since the wonderful podcast 60 Second Saga was discontinued, but I only recently realized that I never had the chance to post my second submission: here’s a beautiful rendition of my short story, Between the Particles.
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On the Map
I’m one of those proud nerds who loves looking at a map when I open a book. So when I created the world of Koleth, of course I wanted to include maps.
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Fun with concept art
A lot of writers I’ve spoken to at conventions swear by the little extras at their table– I already have pins and little polymer dragons, but they particularly talk about the power of concept art and maps. Which resulted in the following conversation: Me: “Hey, do we have room in…
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Birthday time!
Today is my birthday, and that means all of you get a present! From the 25th to the 29th, you can get a free ebook of Mark of the Dragon on Amazon. If you want to give me a little something, how about leaving a review?
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