Category Archives: Writing

Book 3 Redraft: Complete

Finished the coda today — it’s like an epilogue, except since the story continues, it can’t be.  Not much to say other than ‘whew’.  Gonna do some spot-edits tomorrow/Thursday/maybe Friday depending how long it takes, and then will start throwing … Continue reading

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Status Update and Paperdolls

Before I start throwing end-of-the-year posts around, I figured I’d give a small update.  Book 3 is still chugging along with the rewrite; I’m four sections from finishing the 34th chapter (of 36), but since this is all combat, those … Continue reading

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Turning Points

I know I haven’t been blogging much recently.  Bad me.  There are two reasons. 1) My cover artist (and supplier of all the other decent graphics for this blog) has been going through some family medical issues, and thus hasn’t … Continue reading

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Trope Roulette: My Instincts Are Showing

It’s been a while, but I’m ready for a second installment of Trope Roulette!  The idea is to visit that evil time-sink of a site, TVTropes, and hit the Random button until I find something I can talk about.  This … Continue reading

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No Pressure Now…

Ahh, editing.  The endless war. I have two solid books out there, so it shouldn’t be too hard, right?  I know what I’m doing.  I have a Plan. But the most difficult part of editing the third book in this … Continue reading

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Ten Books

Since everyone has been doing the ’10 Books That Have Stayed With You’ challenge recently — so many that Facebook actually compiled 130k of them to make a set of statistics — I figured I might as well.  After all, … Continue reading

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Miscellaneous Art 1

I’ve got nothing for Tough Traveling again this week, so I thought I’d share some art Deb and I did either at the convention or around that time. Deb had her art laptop while she was camped out at our … Continue reading

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Logo!

Today, since I’m getting closer to my conventioneering debut, I shall share another piece of art my awesome cover artist D. D. Phillips has done for the project!  This time, it’s the logo! I know that not every fantasy series … Continue reading

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Convention Banner!

Once again, another week without a Tough Traveling (princesses, Nathan?  princesses?!), but I have something better! Our artistic wrassling over the War of Memory banner for SOE Live! Yay art! As always, these start out with my vague ideas, progress … Continue reading

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Halion Creatures 3

I’d meant to do this post a while back, but I never got around to finishing the write-up.  Alas.  Anyway, since I have nothing to say for today’s Tough Traveling with Fantasy Review Barn, I decided to drag this one … Continue reading

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