Her name was Grace. She was the barista at my favorite coffee shop, and I saw her every morning on my way to work. And every morning she gave me the same bright smile.Read More

This isn’t a spoiler, since it’s on the cover, but my main character in Fallen is a fallen angel (like the title didn’t give it away, right?). As a result, I put a lot of work into considering how angels and demons work in the setting and how I want to address them. It took...Read More

Since I mentioned it, I've decided that they don't wear pants since they couldn't don them. Instead, they have small magical items (necklace, ring, etc.) which hides their bits away and makes them more or less a Ken (or Barbie) doll. Smooth.Read More

The setting of the Smoke and Magic series addresses a similar question to that movie: what if magic were commonplace, and fantasy races were all real? Now, unlike Bright, the world isn't/ a post-modern dystopia where the elves live in the fantasy equivilent of The Aerium from Altered Carbon. (Yeah, I know, I'm a Netflix...Read More

With the upcoming release of my novel, Fallen, I am going to start writing blogs about the setting, the characters and more things about me as an author and a person than just my usual fare of writing advice.Read More

  jiiiiiiiiiiiiku (My cat says hello by way of walking on the keys). Apparently Natasha McNeely has awarded me the Versatile Blogger Award! How kind of her. 🙂 Thank you very much for sending this my way! It was very kind of her to send it to me! Now, apparently there are some rules regarding...Read More