March 2020

With the shutdowns due to COVID-19 and various other real-life disruptions, I decided to just acknowledge that it wasn’t business as usual for yours truly, and do a short (but nutty) project about helping writers cope, particularly writers who weren’t used to working from home or having the time to conceive of what they do […]

Blogging, in general, has overall strategies and individual tactics. I’m not going to talk about why to blog, what to blog in general (although I will touch on what to blog in particular), or how often to blog. This is just a blog on tactics. What makes a good blog? How do you sit down

(This is from my writing craft series; you can read more on Patreon. Please note that these first posts are about things that aren’t strictly about the craft of writing, but the craft of surviving as a writer, if you will, because I want to get them out of the way first.) … This section

So I’ve always struggled to write high fantasy. “High fantasy” was a term coined in 1971 by Lloyd Alexander, author of The Black Cauldron and other novels, to describe fantasy set in a secondary world that is not a version of the “real” world. The Lord of the Rings is high fantasy. I like reading high fantasy; I just struggle

The House Without a Summer Universal Sales Link | Goodreads The year is 1816, in Northamptonshire. A red, spiderwebbed haze covers the sun. Temperatures drop, fields flood and freeze, grain rots on the stem. The people are starving, and even the wealthy and titled are affected by shortages. Sickness spreads as a red fungus overtakes