Let’s get the bad news over with first: I now expect to release Fane of Air and Darkness in late August or early September. I know, I know—I promised June 2017. I have excuses, of course: life happens. But the truth is that what I might have released this month was not the novel you […]
When I sent The Bully Trap to my beta reader, some of her questions told me that I needed to be clearer in my own mind about the layout of Fraser and Spencer’s rooms. So I did some research about mid-Victorian London homes, and found complete plans for a row house, drawn in 1865. The […]
My readers who meet me in person often ask me, “Where do you get your characters?” It varies. Sometimes a character is loosely based on a person or two I know. Sometimes he started life as a literary character—though he’s unrecognizable by the time I get through with him. Sometimes I’m sitting at a blank […]
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Once again, RL Sather has designed my beautiful cover art. Fane, n. Temple. An elf, a fairy.—Oxford English Dictionary, Online The first draft is roughly half-finished. With any good fortune, I should complete it by February at the latest, which will put it into beta reading. After my beta readers send their feedback, I’ll be […]
It’s preseason for ECHL minor league hockey! Here, the Ontario Reign lead the Las Vegas Wranglers 3-1.
Never thought of associating hockey with California. Guess all those Beach Boy songs made me think of only warm weather sports.
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I will admit it is very strange to walk from 80F weather into an arena kept cold enough that the ice won’t melt… I carry a big bag of jackets, sweaters, and blankets in with me. It’s not such a shock in January when temps are in the 40s and 50s, but now — if I dress for the game, I have to run the car’s air conditioning full blast all the way despite the fact that it’s getting cooler here at last…
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