Artist in Residence, Quarantine Diaries I’ve been deep in the throes of plotting and planning and behind-the-scenes stuff, so let me bring you up to speed. My newest novel, ‘The…Continue readingAnd in 2021 I will have for you …
We had a nine-hour power outage yesterday and I lost a day of work. Coincidently, or not, when the power came back on, my computer monitor was dead. Hope to…Continue readingThe blog has gone dark today
For works of fiction set in familiar worlds, the ones in which the reader already lives and is accustomed to, worldbuilding is a question of keeping things “real” – of…Continue readingCreating the world where Were-kind live
A year of reading an author named Alma A few days ago, I posted a monthly reading list of novels about transcending loss, discovering the past, glimpsing the future, or…Continue readingA Duchess of Fantasy 12-month Book List
The girl who became the greatest wizard of all I first wrote the Worldweavers series as a trilogy published by Harper Collins. It told the story of the girl who…Continue readingHelp me bring back a great series
Writing School In the beginning, the author created… When I first began writing historical fantasy, I was inspired by times and places rooted in our own familiar world – but…Continue readingHow to build a world, word by word