Just a quick update. You might not be aware, but 2020 kind of sucked. That said, I've got a bit of good news. I finished the outline for book 3 on January 1st, and now I'm stuck in and writing. I'm tempted to post chapters on Royal Road, but haven't made a decision about that as [...]
So, like all of the fashionable people I've got one of these now. As my friend, editor and awesome sci-fi author Brian Niemeier says, neo-patronage is going to be the new normal for us indie authors very soon. I'm trying to get ahead of that curve. I'm still pushing hard, trying to build enough of an [...]
Today I want to talk about something all of us love. Numbers. Well, maybe not numbers, per se. Let's call it Crunch. Stats. Progression. That magical ingredient that makes Gamelit and LitRPG so fascinating to me and—I assume since you are reading this—you. A few reviews have said my books aren't very crunchy. That's true, sort [...]
Hey, a quick update on a couple of things. First, I've just got the second book of The Last Enclave series back from my editor. It's called Redemption and after I hammer on it some more it'll move on to the next stage in the publishing pipeline. Hopefully that won't be that long. Jake and his [...]
Just a little earlier today I finished the last bits of my first draft of book 2, entitled "Redemption." It's currently weighing in at about 95k words, but it'll get a lot fatter as I need to go through and add all the screens, etc. Plus there'll be details added so it'll probably top 105-110k I'd [...]
Greetings from my plague bunker! So Inheritance has been out for just over a month and people like it. I'm currently at 54 reviews on Amazon, with ~4.5 stars on average. Thanks, you guys. I appreciate the love and the reviews. One thing that's been pretty consistent in the reviews is something like: "I can't wait [...]
Well, everything goes much slower than you'd like, but as of February 25th, I've got a new book out. It's Inheritance, book one of a new sci-fi LitRPG series called The Last Enclave. This is my first book with Shadow Alley Press, a great publisher that specializes in LitRPG/Gamelit books. They're great, and the books are [...]
I'm working on a new book right now, part of a new series I plan to publish in 2019. I haven't got a title or even a series name yet. I'm waiting for inspiration there. The pitch, in (very) brief: Our hero buys a house in a small town at a tax auction. In the process of demolition he [...]
It's that time of year where some of us set goals. Mine this year might be pretty obvious now that you've read the title. In 2018 I wrote (and published) 4 books. The Land of Dreams books. That series isn't done yet, but I'm pretty proud of it. In 2019 I want to stretch. I know [...]
Well, the next thing on the horizon is the audiobook for Blood Eye. It's in revision right now and I've hacked up a cover for it, so as soon as it comes back and it's all good it's going out. Before the end of the year I am going to get Book 4 outlined with the [...]