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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? Read more
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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 blindness. For those unaware, face Read more
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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 good at marking exactly how Read more
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On Questionnaires
I’ve been on the writing corner of the internet for a while now, and I’ve got a long, involved history with questionnaires. Whether you’re crafting a single roleplaying OC or an entire world, you’ll find thousands of lists full of all sorts of questions. Those lists can be super short and to the point (“What Read more
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Character Creation: all in the family
In my first sketches of this current WIP, the protagonist was one of two children born to a single mother. The family began and ended there; these three were each other’s whole world, and nothing mattered but each other. It’s a very American family structure, which isn’t a bad thing– but it didn’t fit to Read more
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A walk in the woods
A few months back, I went to a convention that had a fairly unusual layout compared to the rest of my experiences. Instead of me sitting alone at my little table hawking books to passersby, the author’s alley was like a little bookstore featuring all of the guest authors, with volunteers there to tell anyone Read more
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