One of my lush historical fantasies, ‘Empress’, is rooted in Byzantium – which is something tightly woven with the whole vexed “write what you know” question because I grew up as…Continue readingWho is allowed to tell humanity’s stories?
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
Stories into worlds From small things do bigger things grow — cubs into lions, acorns into oaks, ideas into stories, then collections of stories and then worlds. Some time ago…Continue readingSuperheroes, Third Class, arise…
Classify me I’ve been published by traditional mainstream publishers like HarperCollins, small publishers like Crossroad Press, through collectives like Book View Café, and I have self-published. My books can be…Continue readingWhat kind of books do I write? Well …
In the publishing world, there’s a thing called an elevator pitch. It’s what you would say to someone to describe your book in terms of other things that might be…Continue readingThis summer … come into the light