Since my writing retreat, I’ve noticed my life is very cluttered. There’s so much… stuff. Some of it’s physical possessions, some of it’s mentalities that don’t serve me, some of it’s routines that aren’t helping me get what I need done. There are a lot of places in one’s life where clutter can collect like...Read More

Recently I’ve been trying to get myself back into reading more. I fell out of it for a long time because, honestly, when you read for a living, it can really damage your ability to just enjoy a story. I found myself having to fight to stop the analytical part of my brain from constantly...Read More

I’m sorry I’ve been MIA for so long; I had to take an unexpected hiatus due to health issues. With physical therapy for my shoulder surgery having started and some other health issues appearing, I’ve just been exhausted and hurting and not really up to much the past month. Also, we’ve had folks doing some...Read More

Things right now are hard. I cannot sugar-coat it and will not try. With the war happening in Ukraine, the pandemic still spiking and receding, and political tensions at an all-time high (at least here in the US), things are really hard right now. You are probably feeling it, too. It’s sort of like that...Read More

The last few weeks I’ve been spending many, many hours a day in study of the part of writing few authors enjoy and most dislike: marketing. I took the free Amazon Ads Course by the excellent Bryan Cohen, attended his seminar on newsletter marketing a few days ago, and I spent hours and hours fine-tuning...Read More

I haven’t written a blog much since I switched over to the new site, and I am considering getting back into this. If nothing else, it’ll give me things I can add to the newsletter! I know a lot of writers have found my blog posts helpful over the many years I’ve been doing this,...Read More

Hoo, has it been a week! This week I switched hosts from WordPress.com to another host which will allow me to do things like set up my newsletter how I would like it. WordPress, as useful as it has been the last eleven years, charged more to provide me with the same services, and, as...Read More

I don’t talk about it much, but I have ADHD pretty significantly. I hide it really well because while my mother has always been incredibly accepting of it, my father wasn’t. My mom has it, so she gets me. My dad? Not so much. He thought it was a matter of discipline. And all I...Read More

So I’ve talked some about the angels and demons and their hierarchy in the setting, since a large part of the story centers around them, but I haven’t talked a ton about non-celestial magic. Which I think is a shame. While the series is focused on the celestials a lot of the time, there are...Read More

Peeling paint and tired, sagging fence lines speak to the weary feeling that has settled over my town, my country, and my life. When I was younger, those fences were straight and even like the perfect, even teeth of a movie star. Now they lean to the side, valiantly defying the will of the weather,...Read More