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It’s Here! The Sins of Acheryn fantasy short story is free through Wed on Amazon!

The Sins of Acheryn tells the tale of the cataclysmic fall of a vanished empire. As the legendary Kings of Acheryn moved to consume the nations of the ancient world, her pride and violence rose to the thrones of heaven. … Continue reading

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Please sit back and enjoy this terrible writing…The Bulwer-Lytton Fiction Contest

Special thanks to ereads.com for pointing this out! I’d heard of this contest before. Writers are challenged with penning the worst introductory sentence of a novel that they can imagine. So for those of us uncomfortable with the idea of … Continue reading

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Excerpt from The Prince of Graves: The Grief of Brothers #fantasy novella

Just a quick note: I posted this excerpt a few weeks before publishing The Prince of Graves, with the disclaimer that some minor editing still needed to be completed. This is the final version that made its way into print. … Continue reading

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To map or not to map? An important question for #fantasy and #scifi #writers

I have always maintained that one of the fundamental responsibilities of the fantasy or science fiction writer is the responsibility to create a contextually plausible setting for the story to take place in. Actually, this is a minimum requirement for … Continue reading

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