Category: Book One
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Found By Find
Because I am a self-published author, I don’t have the resources to employ an editor for my drafts. I seek out feedback occasionally from a few trusted family members but that is chiefly on content and not editing. When it comes to editing, I have to read and re-read and…
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A Couple Updates
While I’m busy working on Book Two of THE CRYSTAL CRUX series – Blue Grotto – I have a couple other irons in the fire. First off, the second book will be done no later than the very end of October, with a release in early November. I know we…
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First Video Book Read
Okay, it’s just a short, two paragraph read from my first novel, The Crystal Crux – Betrayal, but it is something. I was experimenting with Photoshop Movie Maker and threw this together. I’m sure I’ll do better as I figure it out. I also did it on one take which…
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Jack Of All Trades
Thorough – Being all that is needed; complete. Doing all that should be done and slighting nothing; painstaking. Epic fantasy tales can often be very liberal on the hows, whens and whys of the world they exist in. The author is free to create something from nothing, mold objects, buildings…
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Epic Control
“J.R.R. Tolkien, the near-universally hailed father of modern epic fantasy, crafted his magnum opus, The Lord of the Rings, to explore the forces of creation as he saw them: God and country, race and class, journeying to war and returning home.” – N.K. Jemisin “Prophecy will bite your prick off…
