OK, folks, I've got another exciting update for you today! The book is complete, my beta readers have gone through it a second time, the synopsis is done, and I am ready to send out the query letter (below) to agents and publishers! Firstly, what a privilege to read such a warm, smart book. It's... Continue Reading →
OK, Aenya fans, I have some great stuff for you today! First and foremost, I have completed the final edit for the first book in The Magiq of Aenya series: The Stargazers' Daughters. After painstakingly going through it for months, I managed to cut it down from 172k to 164,711 words. If you want to... Continue Reading →
The worst grade I ever got in graduate school wasn't an F or even a zero; it was "crucifixion." No, I wasn't strung up on a wooden scaffold to be slowly suffocated. But my professor did write on the back of my paper, "If you submitted this to any historical journal, YOU WOULD BE CRUCIFIED!"... Continue Reading →
Note: So I guess I made the mistake of posting this piece on Reddit (you know, the forum for informed and nuanced discourse) and pretty much got downvoted to oblivion. As expected, the discussion revolved around the contentious issue of Helen's historicity, entirely missing the point of this piece, namely that I will see the... Continue Reading →
THIS IS A SCAM ALERT!!! I was almost taken in by a scam the other day—something I never thought would happen to me, because I am fairly paranoid when it comes to online interactions. If you so much as DM "hello" to me, I am going to get suspicious. Over the years, I have had... Continue Reading →
Ironically, I used AI to help me condense this podcast (below), only to prove how it can never actually replace a genuine author who has mastered the art of storytelling. Even when the text is sourced directly from my own words, the condensed writing feels stilted and lifeless. Much of it was actually incomprehensible, in... Continue Reading →
In this podcast below, I give you not one, not two, but a whopping 25 book reviews! These are all books I read before starting this blog 15 years ago that I never got a chance to share. Reading (and reading a lot) is a crucial part of being an author. It's truly the only... Continue Reading →
You get to thinking of the Earth as an organism, a living thing. You get to worry about it, care for it, wish it well. National boundaries are as invisible as meridians of longitude, or the Tropics of Cancer and Capricorn. The boundaries are arbitrary. The planet is real. Carl Sagan Carl Sagan was a... Continue Reading →
Clear your calendars, folks, I have exciting news! I will be attending the 2nd annual Tarpon Springs Book Festival right here in beautiful Tarpon Springs, Florida! Last year's event was a total SMASH — My most successful signing event to date. This is a great opportunity to meet me in person, pick my brain about... Continue Reading →
AENYA is as diverse a world as Middle-earth; to call Ages of Aenya a book about nudism is like calling The Lord of the Rings a book about not wearing shoes. Sorry for YET another rant---I really didn't want to do this, I swear---but I recently stumbled upon an article in Planet Nude about 'nudist... Continue Reading →
The Art of Storytelling 
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