The Confluence: Pre-Order Campaign
Pre-order my new novel today, and I’ll send you some cool stuff, including an invitation to the digital launch party. Plus, I’ll think you’re really awesome, and you might just help out a local business when it needs it most. I’ll admit I’ve been reluctant to write this post because, above all else, I hope […]
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Big Ambitions – How I Plan to Write a Novel in Three Months
I’m about to start writing my third novel, and I’m not sure which is more ambitious: the plot, or my completion goal. What happens when you take the substance of an ancient Breton folk tale about a sunken city and drop it into 1890s Colorado? Yeah, I don’t know either, but I’m about to find […]
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Introducing ‘Chronicum’—An Update on MS2
With a new title and a fresh hook, it’s finally time to send MS2 out into the world. If you’d told me seven months ago I’d be starting the querying process for a new novel this fall, I might’ve retorted with something like “You’re the one who should be writing fiction!” We’d have laughed as […]
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The Rosemary That Couldn’t, The Writer That Can
Trying to over-winter a mediterranean plant in New England reminds me—not just in gardening—that it’s usually better to take the time to do something the right way. My fingertips smell of rosemary and lavender. Product of the waiting? Of high aspirations? An excuse to keep them from being idle? They’re restless—aching to work. But when […]
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A New Novel—Daring to Dream
I was having a tough time devising a plot for a new novel. It turns out I just needed a little inspiration to remind me: Dream bigger! Eventually, I had to step out of the afterglow. Since finishing the first draft of my first novel a little over two years ago, I feel as though […]
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