I blogged in May: “On What Authority?” was I offering advice on the craft of writing? Since that blog I got the unexpected news that I am one of eight finalists in PNWA’s 2016 Contest in the science fiction/fantasy/paranormal category. This is a competitive contest for which PNWA overall (in all genres) received over a thousand entries. I mentioned before that
A majority of Siana’s War is in first person narrative. When you spend over a decade of your life and thousands of words writing about a character, especially in first person narrative, that character lives in your head all the time. Things that happened to her in your book feel like memories, not scenes out of a
When I was 11 or 12 I wrote a brief story about a girl named Eolia. I gave my short story the ponderous Latin name of Advent Ignaritatis. Eolia went in search of marvelous beauties and instead found a lethal kingdom of terrors. As a middle schooler I had a plethora of novel ideas, and