Category: Urban Dragon
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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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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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Character Creation: Face Blindness
Since I started doing author panels at conventions, I’ve gotten one question thrown at me a few times: “How do you come up with characters?” And inevitably, my process is just a little bit different from the other authors at those panels, because mine plays a lot into my face…
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A matter of scale
Originally, the Urban Dragon books were commissioned by Cliffhanger Press, and that meant I needed to write them according to a very particular set of instructions. Among those instructions was a wordcount: each of the nine stories had to fall between 18,000 and 25,000 words, and so I got very…
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And to all a good night
It’s Christmas Eve, and to those who celebrate it, Merry Christmas. To those who don’t, have a happy holiday. May there be more good times than bad for you in this season. Whether you count it as good (yay, another book!) or bad (aw, the last one?), today marks…
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Crusader Non Grata
It’s the beginning of the end, and the story of the Urban Dragon is starting to draw to a close. That’s right: Crusader Non Grata marks the last arc of the series. When we last saw our heroes, Arkay finally accepted her place as leader of the Hoarde, with all…
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Blog hop double stop: Top Ten and a Review
It’s time for another stop on our blog hop, but this is a particularly special one for me. The first stop is a fun one: A breakdown of my top ten favorite authors on Laurie’s Paranormal Thoughts and Reviews, which was great for really getting me thinking about the books…
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