I had a busy year. I’d like to think it was also successful. Considering all the insanity of real life, I didn’t get as much done as I’d hoped, but that’s fine. I published four new books: A More Efficient Fantasy 9: […]
Life has been very busy lately. I’m near the end of the semester, which is always crazy, but now life has added additional items. I was in a car accident a few weeks ago. Someone drove through a red light and crashed […]
I don’t normally talk about my daily life, but that’s in part because my life is usually very boring. However, I had a lot of excitement over the last week — rather too much excitement. I got a hole in the hose […]
Hot take alert: fantasy worlds that are basically Earth but with magic suck. I don’t read fantasy to spend yet more time in Medieval England. If you like complicated worlds, then here are tons of cool ones to check out: https://books.bookfunnel.com/newworldssff/34cppfbvpz In […]
To those who think technology now always works and everything is wonderful: I laugh in your general direction. Computers can still be every bit as shit as they were in the mid-noughties when I spent most of grad school cursing them. So […]
I had a chance to do my first blog interview with the amazing Sue Rovens. If you want to know my insane reason for not writing hard scifi, I am currently at the top of the page at https://suerovens.com/meet-greet-author-q-as/ You should also […]
So 2024 has been a busy year for me. Successful or productive, I don’t know, but definitely busy. My mom’s been having lots of health issues, so I moved both my parents in with me to help out. Between the two of […]
I’ve had yet another trip to the ER and hospital this year. I think we’re up to 6 by now? My dad fractured his neck and will be in a brace for at least 2 months. He also drove with a fractured […]
That Moment When You Realize You Forgot a Major Plot Point: This is what I get for overly complicated worlds, characters, and plots. I am currently going through revisions of books 5 – 7 of Thousand Eye Universe — looking at […]
Something you often say as an educator: “Surely my students can’t possibly get any stupider.” To which your students reply: “Oh yes, we can!” Case in point: I’ve never seen a student fail to understand how to do multiple-choice questions. The student […]