Out on a limb?

 Yeah, I just published a bit of nonfiction, believe it or not!  Talk about a whole other genre, and I thought writing something in a modern setting was astounding.  Go find my new gluten free baking cookbook over at Smashwords or your favorite retailer!

What a time to be alive?

 Yes, I know, I know, the only reason you live is for the next installment of my ridiculous fiction, so rejoice and be glad, for I just updated the 'On Eagles Wings' box set with a few more short stories (available exclusively in the box set), so hurry on over to your favorite retailer and get yours before they run out...or not, whatever, enjoy!

Christmas Sale

 Most of my 'box sets' are on sale, check out Smashwords for 67% off or even free titles.  Merry Christmas!

I find your lack of formatting disturbing...!

 I just spent the better part of the morning reformatting the entire 'In Shadow' box set, trying to get the table of contents working, but it was a no go.  Nothing like a million word compilation with no navigation?!  I'm not sure what the smashwords 'meat grinder' has against certain of my books, but so far it is winning.  It works great in the word format but the epub is wonky, maybe I'll try again someday, but I'm giving my editing staff (me!) the week off for the holidays.  Hope yours is great too!

The book that just won't go away!

 So I finished the series, but apparently it wasn't finished with me!  I've added five short stories (one's a novella but still...) to the 'On Eagles Wings' box set, I won't publish them separately as you need to read the whole series for them to make much sense, enjoy!

Series finished and published!

 My new series is out as individual books and a box set (On Eagles Wings) and for never having intended to write it or ever having written a 'modern' epic, I think it is pretty good, though it still ends up in Fairyland, at least they have cell phones...?!  It needs a good editing, there are a few glaring spelling or grammatical errors I missed, but I'll get that next time through, until then, please forgive me and enjoy!

How to write good: a guide to killing your characters?

First read this.  And now I can talk about my own experience as a writer with the conundrum of when you know you have to kill off or otherwise cause your favorite characters distress, and then I ran across this article which seemed to tie in most excellently as well.  I'm in the middle of the fourth 'On Eagles Wings' book, a series I never planned to write in the first place, but something that pretty much demands me to write it (and you thought authors wrote books when actually it is the books forcing the authors to write them?), and in it, I had to put a favorite character through something rather dreadful, and I really struggled with that, why Lord?  For his good and Your glory, ah!  Remember the cross?  Ever watch The Passion, yeah it isn't a pretty or easy story, but where would we be without it?  And why is it surprising all lesser works shouldn't echo just that?  I really struggled with this when I first started writing back in 2007, I had a main character I really liked and I knew I had to kill him off.  If I hadn't I'm pretty sure my creative train would have derailed then and there and I would have given up writing for good in frustration, but in doing as I knew the story demanded, I not only 'received back my dead' but I also ended up writing a ton more stuff, far more than I ever dreamed possible.  And as life is a story, His story, don't be surprised when disasters happen, but hang in there and remember it truly is for your good!