The main character of my novel is… Well, that’s a actually a hard statement to finish. There are two main characters in my novel. The…
(Gosh, it’s amazing how quickly you can get behind on this challenge when you have a busy week, isn’t it? Here’s me rolling up my…
Earlier this week, I touched on the central touchstone for the tone of my books: life is routine. I think most everyone knows what I…
When it comes to writing, I think we all have things that we think we’re pretty good at and enjoy doing. Our comfort zone, where…
Today I’m just going to talk a bit about my own work. My first book, The Deathsniffer’s Assistant, offers a lot of things that I…
One of my favourite authors is Scott Lynch, writer of The Lies of Locke Lamora and its sequels. Lynch is often considered more pulp than…
I was about three quarters of the way through my first draft of The Deathsniffer’s Assistant when my best friend linked me a song. “I…
There’s been a lot of talk in the publishing community lately about a new app called “Clean Reader.” Clean Reader can be installed onto tablets…
At the end of last week’s blog in this series, Querying, I said it was the second hardest step of the whole process. This week,…
Now we’re getting into the professional stuff. By the time you start submitting, I’d say you’re mostly out of the Labyrinth. But it’s still looming…