Sometimes I feel this way when it comes to writing. I’ll sit down at the keyboard… and everything is just so derivative. Like, this is just Hamlet with lions. That’ll never sell. Oh, wait. That’s Lion King. See, so often writers can get hung up on originality. And it’s true; you don’t want to copyContinue reading “I’ve heard it all before.”
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We don’t need those fifty pages!
We encamped that night at Garion Danwsbrook. And so began the saga that would become The Keeper of Tales. I mentioned a few weeks ago that what I first wrote evolved quite a bit through revisions. In fact, the first fifty pages are simply gone in what you’ll have the opportunity to read starting MarchContinue reading “We don’t need those fifty pages!”
It’s coming EARLY!
For those of you eager to read The Keeper of Tales earlier… Due to a LOT of hard work, we are releasing the book two months early!
Desiring Creation
It is done. As of this last week, I sent in the edits for The Keeper of Tales. Want to know something funny? The entire time I was editing… I wanted to be writing. The entire time I was evaluating this novel I’d formed, I wanted to be forming something else. Something new. I hadContinue reading “Desiring Creation”
Reading the Work in Progress… Again
Before a novel comes out to meet the public, it has to work out a lot. And I mean, a lot. So, there’s this book of mine coming out May 1. I wrote the novel. I revised it. I destroyed it. I polished it. And then I sent it in to a publisher! And loContinue reading “Reading the Work in Progress… Again”
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