Over the weekend, I wrote the culmination of the first big crisis in my book (Golden City). I killed off one of my characters, and I had to blink away tears as I wrote. I guess that’s what happens when a character has been floating around in your head for 15 years–bound to get a… Continue reading I made myself cry…

I’ve started writing the first draft of the Golden City (third book in the Realm Trilogy) in earnest. Today I passed ten thousand words. Both the other books were around fifty thousand words, so that means I’m a fifth of the way there. Another way of looking at it is that I’ve written the first… Continue reading Golden City – a fifth of the way there…

My book titles Medar and Tyrelia are both anagrams. I know, sneaky, right? I’ll leave them up to you to figure out. My third book, however, is going to simply be Golden City. “But it should be an anagram!” My sister Rachel insisted. “Well, you make that into an anagram, and maybe I’ll use it,”… Continue reading Secret Anagrams

It’s been three months since I started advertising on Amazon. I recently passed one million impressions and I’ve sold 24 books. So that’s roughly one sale for every 40,000 impressions. Still costing me ten times more than I’m making. Actually, I’m not making anything, as Amazon won’t pay me out until I make $100 in… Continue reading A million impressions

Hi everyone. The next best thing you can do after reading my book is to post a review about it. If you can post one on Amazon, that would be the best (because that’s where I’m advertising), but Amazon does have some pretty clever algorithms that will exclude reviews from people that it decides have… Continue reading Reviews please!