Huddled around a bent campfire with companions as frigid as the howling winds, Aile had never felt a festival of the Nativity as cold as the one she bore tonight. Unseen past the snow and scraggly pines, others are listening in the night... Watching with hungry eyes that craft murderous designs. A Hymnal upon the... Continue Reading →
Fiction Update! The Conclusion of “A Contract in Azure and Indigo”!
And here it is… The third and final chapter of A Contract in Azure and Indigo has been posted on Aethereal Engines! The finale is a dutiful third act which begins with Ama and Bean confronting the unexpected consequences that Macule has brought forth: Irrevocable changes that will alter their lives forever. This story has... Continue Reading →
Fiction Update! “A Contract in Azure and Indigo” Chapter Two is Up!
Chapter two of A Contract in Azure and Indigo is posted on Aethereal Engines! Happy Friday! Like a good second act of three, this chapter features rising action and confrontation as Ama and Bean come face to face with something wholly supernatural! The third and final chapter will be posted on Friday, December 26th and... Continue Reading →
New Fiction! “A Contract in Azure and Indigo” Chapter One!
Chapter one of A Contract in Azure and Indigo is posted on Aethereal Engines! I’m really excited to share this because I’ve gotten such good feedback on it so far! Chapter two will be posted next Friday (the 19th) and the third and final chapter on Friday, December 26th. I hope that everyone who checks... Continue Reading →
New Fiction! “The Visitor” is up on Aethereal Engines!
I posted some new fiction today on Aethereal Engines and I’m reblogging it here! I’m still in the middle of working and revising my Unsundered novella-novel, but I was inspired earlier this week to create a short story called “The Visitor” for a writers challenge. It’s a standalone short fantasy story and a quick read... Continue Reading →
Engineer’s Log, September 26th 2014: Insert Name and Title Here
I'm still revising, editing, cutting and moving things about this week on The Lost Tomb of Omo! This type of work is hard to quantify in word count and I don’t have the desire or time to setup some methodology to track and relay it. So you’ll just need to trust me when I say,... Continue Reading →
Constructed Nouns in Fantasy: An Orc by Any Other Name Would Smell Just as Bad
Character and place names in fantasy fiction can be a headache. A friend of mine once quipped that the surefire way to write a great fantasy novel was “to have a dark-lord, a wizard and make every fifth word unpronounceable.” Sadly, it was J. R. R. Tolkien who got the ball rolling on this trend,... Continue Reading →
Engineer’s Log, September 19th 2014: Revision, Revision
This update finds me in the depths of some heavy duty revision of The Lost Tomb of Omo. I finally got all the pages back from Jessica, and her input confirmed my fears that the story had lost its pace early in the 3rd chapter. I was able to regain it in the 4th chapter,... Continue Reading →
Engineer’s Log, September 9th 2014: 26,284 Words and a Boatload of Refinement!
Hello Dear Readers! Last week, the combination of a working holiday weekend and a milestone birthday really impacted my available writing time. I ended up skipping the update to use that time to work on The Lost Tomb of Omo instead. I’m glad I did that, as it at least gave me a feeling of... Continue Reading →
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