Recently, because of reasons, I have had occasion to give multiple people my business card (yes, I do actually have business cards! they are very old! but the info on them remains accurate! I think!). That being the case, and in view of the fact that this blog’s address is emblazoned (actually printed demurely) upon …
September 26, 2024 Well, my latest book is in the hands of its first beta reader, so I might as well make an official proclamation: MY LATEST BOOK IS IN THE HANDS OF ITS FIRST BETA READER *bells, whistles, trumpets* … *alarms, sirens, klaxons* This one happens to be my very first nonfiction book. It’s …
I’m working on an Atheism for Lent book. It’s slow going, but it’s one of the best brain teasers I’ve engaged with in a long time. I’m having a blast. I’m currently writing a chapter on Jean-Luc Marion and his ideas of “experience” and “concept.” And I swear that sometime already this year, I have …
This map depicts the Known Lands of the Light-Walkers Universe as of 1335 A.R. (After the Return).Please click to enlarge!
So, ICYMI, in the midst of Atheism for Lent, COVID, and a secondary viral infection, I somehow managed to publish another book. No, I don’t know how. The past 50ish days are mostly a blur to me. Interspersed with the occasional moment of mostly miserable clarity. So I really have no clue what magic I …
And would you believe, I’ve been too busy with the next one to post about the one I spent almost all the second half of 2022 on? That was an absolutely terrible sentence, and as a writer, I should know better. But I don’t care. I GOT THE BOOK DONE. After a title change. HA …
That’s it. That’s the title. A “scend” is the surge created by a wave, which is doubly fun because this novel is set in a landlocked country. *laughs in maniacal confused* As you might already know, my current project is to take my first two Light-Walker novels, Rethana’s Surrender and Rethana’s Trial, and squoosh them …
For what I want to do, I do not do…. That’s an incomplete and out-of-context quote from a 1st-century Roman Jew named Paulus. But it fits. At the very least, it speaks to an insolvable aspect of the human condition. We so often know what good we need to do but can’t get ourselves to …
BRIEF: finished my Breakfast Club meets Magicians novel first draft. Clocked in at just under 50k words, which makes it more of a novella. Next draft will likely push it into novel territory, but that’s at least 6 months away while I do other stuff. OTHER STUFF: I’ve always regretted splitting Rethana’s story into two …
There was a time when I loathed tattoos. This was when I was still my fearful child self, my anxiety-ridden teen self, and my superconfused young adult self. Anything different was terrifying. I know. Welcome To Humanness, right? People with tattoos intimidated the shit out of me. Remember, this was Germany in the ’80s and …