Smashwords is hosting their 16th annual Read an Ebook Week Sale–and I’ve entered my ebooks in the sale. From now until Saturday (March 8th), A Shadow on the Land and Galthain’s Bones will be free, and King’s Ride and Eiathan’s Heir will be 99 cents each. Legends of Astarkand, books 1-3 are also available as
Why add maps to your books? Oh, for various reasons. If you’re writing fantasy or science fiction, including a map can help to keep your readers oriented as to where your characters are experiencing the events in the story. Of course, if your world is fictional, you will have to create those maps in order
Have you ever thought about how much work goes into building a castle? I’m not talking about sand castles, although some of those are quite labor-intensive too. I’m talking about a real, Medieval-style castle with stone towers and turrets, curtain walls, chapel, and even a proper gatehouse. The title of this video is a bit
Have you ever wondered what it would take to write a hit story? If you get a spark going, will it ignite? Light your writing on fire with these cool as a cucumber writing tips, and then YOU can be the coolest writer lit up on the web too! That’s what they said when they
When developing a character for a new book, it helps to think about the people we know and real facets of their characters that make them interesting or challenging to deal with. Their strengths and weaknesses, how they relate to other people, who they really are down deep inside as opposed to their public faces.
The mainstream media has been going nuts this week because the new head of the EPA doesn’t believe that free carbon has any effect on climate change! There are a lot of different factors that come into play to create the climate we enjoy on our world. Volcanism and plate tectonics have a very powerful
Reposted from June 8, 2013: You’re invited to take a Tour of the Grounds of Hearthing Castle! Click on either the picture at top, and the link should take you to view the video presentation. A little more information about Hearthing Castle: It isn’t your typical castle. This castle only exists on paper. Aside from
Creatures of Astarkand: the Fleuder Reposted from May 21, 2013 I was rummaging through my hard-drive looking for old, random files to delete when I came across this photo my good friend, Heidi Kortman, took a while back of a fleuder. If you have read my books, then you are already aware of the odd
Re-posted from May 9, 2013: My current word count has broken 77,000 words. When I was in great difficulty several years ago, it seemed that God didn’t hear my prayers. Yet all the time, He was listening and providing, and when I reached that darkest hour where I had nowhere left to turn, He was
Reposted from May 5, 2013: Excerpted from my (then) current WIP (Eiathan’s Heir): “I beg your pardon, your Highness,” the castle steward puffed, coming up at a run as Bjorn exited the alley between a long, low shed and the physician’s quarters. “If someone had informed me you was going to inspect the grounds, I’d have