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  • Mar 2025 Book Recommendation: Realm Breaker by Victoria Aveyard

    Mar 2025 Book Recommendation: Realm Breaker by Victoria Aveyard

    Intro Although most people who have heard of Victoria Aveyard probably know her as the author of Red Queen (which is a great book, but not the one we’re talking about today), her latest series, Realm Breaker, has become one of the more well known YA fantasy series, especially among fans of epic, Lord of…

    March 19, 2025
  • How I Outline My Books

    How I Outline My Books

    Intro When it comes to writing, I rarely ever go in without a plan. For shorter things, like flash fiction and short stories, that plan might just be a basic idea in my head of how events are going to play out but, for longer projects like novels, I usually need more than a basic…

    March 5, 2025
  • Feb 2025 Book Recommendation: World of Warcraft: Arthas: Rise of the Lich King

    Feb 2025 Book Recommendation: World of Warcraft: Arthas: Rise of the Lich King

    Intro So, for those of you who might not know, this is a video game book, set in the universe of the World of Warcraft MMORPG. (We’re not serious readers here, if you haven’t noticed.) It’s the origin story of one of the game’s most iconic villains, the infamous Lich King, lord of the undead…

    February 19, 2025
  • The Emerald Dragon: Out Now!

    The Emerald Dragon: Out Now!

    The second book in the Rise of the Oathsworn series, the Emerald Dragon: a Fantasy Novelette, is available now on Amazon and Kindle Unlimited!  This 15,000 word fantasy story continues the adventures of Xieraine and his mentor Amara, picking up shortly after the events of the Sea Devil. (To learn more about the Sea Devil,…

    February 8, 2025
  • How I Write Teenage Characters

    How I Write Teenage Characters

    Intro As someone who has written mostly in the young adult genre, I have to write a lot of characters that are in their teens. The teenage years are, as we all know, an…interesting period of life. It’s a transitioning phase, full of both physical and mental change, which can be confusing and frustrating—all of…

    February 5, 2025
  • The Sea Devil: Out Now!

    The Sea Devil: Out Now!

    The Sea Devil: A Fantasy Novelette is available now on Amazon! Experience the first adventure of a young paladin seeking to live up to his full potential in this new 9,000 word fantasy story, the first addition of the Rise of the Oathsworn series. The Sea Devil Description It isn’t easy living up to prophecies.…

    January 22, 2025
  • Jan 2025 Book Recommendation: Skyward by Brandon Sanderson

    Jan 2025 Book Recommendation: Skyward by Brandon Sanderson

    Intro It’s time for the first reading recommendation of 2025! I’ve got a lot of great books that I’m looking forward to sharing with you this year, so deciding which one to do first took some thought. But, in the end, I figured that you can’t go wrong with a good old Sanderson novel. Skyward…

    January 15, 2025
  • What to Expect From the Blog in 2025

    What to Expect From the Blog in 2025

    Intro With the new year upon us, I thought it wouldn’t be a bad idea to lay out the road ahead. While there won’t be many changes to the sorts of posts I’ll be doing this year, there will be some things that are going to be a little different from last year that I’ll…

    January 1, 2025
  • Dec 2024 Book Recommendation: Black Widow: Forever Red by Margaret Stohl

    Dec 2024 Book Recommendation: Black Widow: Forever Red by Margaret Stohl

    Intro For our last book recommendation of the year, I thought we’d do a fun, geeky read. As a long-time Marvel fan—and especially a Black Widow fan—I was very excited when I learned that there was a novel about her.  But, whether or not you’re already a Black Widow fan, there are lots of reasons…

    December 18, 2024
  • How I Design My Characters

    How I Design My Characters

    Intro As I’ve mentioned before, I’m an artist along with a writer, and being able to do my own artwork has proven to be a very useful—and fun—skill to have, especially when paired with my writing. I’m fortunate enough to have an advantage that a lot of writers don’t have, as I don’t necessarily have…

    December 4, 2024
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