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For Great Justice!
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Musings on writing, querying, and publishing from a wannabe fantasy/historical fiction author.
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What time is it?!

…Adventure Time! Except not really. I like to think it’s something equally as cool, though! By which I mean to say, it’s giveaway time! To help celebrate the release of my debut nov...

1 day ago

Dialogue: an appreciation

I reread two very different books this past week. The first was Cormac McCarthy’s No Country for Old Men, the bleak and gritty neo-Western that the Coen Brothers adapted quite faithfully into a...

5 days ago

Six Sentence Sunday #6

Cheating a little; this is actually seven sentences. I blame Angela Goff. Voices drifted over the garden wall from the colonnade on the other side, traveling well enough on the cool, crisp night air ...

13 may 12

A conversation with the dead

Two weeks ago I went with a friend to the release party for UWG’s literary magazine, Eclectic. It felt a little awkward to be the sole history major in a sea of hipsters English majors, but I h...

27 apr 12

Once Upon a Time contest entry

Here’s my entry for the “Once Upon a Time” flash fiction contest being hosted by Yearning for Wonderland and SJI Holliday. The challenge was to write an “unexpected” fai...

21 apr 12

Lucky number seven

Hemmie Martin was kind enough to tag me in the Lucky 7 meme a few days ago, and I’ve finally found the time to sit down and do it. I’ve also found, to my great chagrin, that pages 7 and 7...

13 apr 12

A reassurance

Yes. I am, in fact, still alive.

12 apr 12

Six Sentence Sunday #5

This past week was my spring break, and the first time in a long time that I’d had substantial time to devote to writing. I’ve been in a rut for a while, mostly due to the fact that IR...

25 mar 12

Review: Keturah and Lord Death

Of myself, Keturah Reeve, and the personage I meet, a story scarce credible to one who has never been lost in the woods…. I’d never heard of this book or author before two days ago. But s...

19 mar 12

Six Sentence Sunday #4

I haven’t been getting nearly enough done on my WIP lately; in fact, it’s pretty much sat untouched for two weeks now. But here are six more sentences just the same. Enjoy! There was noth...

12 mar 12

Review: Wolf Blood

Apologies, first, that it’s been all quiet on the blogging front lately. In my defense–hey guys apparently there’s a really big solar storm today! Next, Wolf Blood, by N. M. Browne....

08 mar 12

Tongue-tied

I’ve always hated talking about my writing. Pretty weird for someone who wants to make a living as a novelist–I know. But it’s not that I necessarily hate sharing my writing. I don&...

17 feb 12

Worldbuilding resources

Disclaimer: this post is geared primarily towards historical-fiction writers, specifically those writing about classical antiquity–apologies for the narrow scope! I’ve started putting tog...

06 feb 12

Six Sentence Sunday #3

I’ve been sorely neglecting this place lately; these Six-Sentence-Sunday excerpts have pretty much been my only updates. What can I say? Between school, work, and manuscript-revising, blogging ...

05 feb 12

Blog Hop contest entry

This is my entry for the flash-fiction contest being hosted by Angela Goff, Angie Richmond, Daniel Swensen, and Lillie McFerrin. The prompt was to write 300 words or less using this photograph as ins...

30 jan 12

Six Sentence Sunday #2

Here’s another six-sentence snippet from my current manuscript. Tore smiled a swift, ugly smile. “Does he mean so much to you? Moien’s son?” There was a cold steel edge to his...

30 jan 12

Six Sentence Sunday

Inspired by Angela over at Anonymous Legacy, I’ve decided to try my hand at Six Sentence Sunday–a brief weekly sampling of one’s work-in-progress. Which, for me, is the sequel to Hi...

23 jan 12

His Own Good Cover Art

Winter Goose released my cover art today! Check it out, you guys: And the official publisher’s blurb: Noble-born Tyren Risto, bound by tradition to serve in the Imperial Military, had resigned ...

18 jan 12

In honor of MLK Day

One of my favorite under-appreciated U2 songs.

16 jan 12

The Versatile Blogger Award

Many thanks to Angela, Lillie, Steven, and Jo-Anne for nominating me for the Versatile Blogger Award! Now it’s my turn to pass it on. The rules are as follows: In a post on your blog, nominate ...

16 jan 12

Star Wars and storytelling

So much of my education as a writer can be boiled down to “Look how good Star Wars IV-VI are. Look how bad I-III are.” Christopher Hastings, creator of one of my favorite webcomics, The A...

10 jan 12

Lessons from film

First post of the new year! How’s it going, guys? Today I’m going to talk about film. A disclaimer–it’s kind of a long post. That seems to be what happens when I get on the to...

05 jan 12

The announcement

And here it is, just in time for New Year’s: I’m excited to announce that I’ve signed a contract with Winter Goose Publishing for my debut fantasy novel, His Own Good Sword. The rel...

01 jan 12

Thoughts on the new year

2011 has been a year full of big, scary, and exciting stuff. I transferred schools at the very beginning of the year, leaving Geneva College to start attending the University of West Georgia, in my h...

30 dec 11

Writing and college

When I started drafting this post in my head, I was thinking I would come up with some Practical and Helpful Advice on how to balance writing and college, since I know I’m not the only young wr...

18 dec 11

Approaching “age-appropriaten ess”

There’s an intriguing contest going on right now over at Brenda Drake’s blog: how effectively do the first 250 words of your manuscript reveal the age of your main character? Are the voic...

09 dec 11

The aftermath

After a crazy-hectic November–classes, new job, new house, NaNoWriMo (won!), Thanksgiving, and some serious family health issues right in the middle of it–here’s hoping December pro...

05 dec 11

A good kind of crazy

Well, we’re now three days into NaNoWriMo, and if we’re keeping on schedule we should be somewhere in the vicinity of 5,000 words by midnight tonight. Whether you’re on track, a lit...

03 nov 11

Language and the Reformation

I got the opportunity this weekend to hear Dr. Carl Trueman, professor of Historical Theology and Church History at Westminster Seminary, give a series of lectures on the history of the English Refor...

31 oct 11

For your reading pleasure

Since yet another way to procrastinate on the interwebs is just what we all need (especially with NaNoWriMo just around the corner), I’m pleased to give you a brief sampling of webcomics you re...

27 oct 11

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