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Within the Sanctuary of Wings has won in the category of Best Fantasy Novel for the RT Reviewers’ Choice Award!
The first of my three Born to the Blade episodes, “Fault Lines,” is available now!
The first year of my Patreon is now available in revised and expanded form as New Worlds, Year One: A Writer’s Guide to the Art of Worldbuilding!
From the Journal
Sekrit Projekt R&R, Chapter 24: Finit
113 days after we started writing — and one year and twenty-four days after we said, “hey, what do you think of this idea for a novel we could write together?” — the book is done. Not 100% finished and ready to go, of course. We’ve both done a lot of revision along the way, […]
Sekrit Projekt R&R, Chapter 23
We budgeted two days to write the penultimate, climactic chapter. We did it in one. Word count: ~199,000 Authorial sadism: Turning V— into a chew toy. Authorial amusement: Turning V— into a housemaid. Also, making people step repeatedly on the magical third rail. BLR quotient: So very much blood. But if it weren’t for love, […]
“The Faces of Halloweentown”
Back in 2013 I wrote a small treat for the Yuletide fanfic exchange called “The Faces of Halloweentown,”, about the nature of the place Jack Skellington rules in The Nightmare Before Christmas. That movie always hovers on a knife-edge for me — do I want to watch it around Christmas? Or around Halloween? The story […]
