TL;DR for the impatient: Vocal Media launched a $10k fantasy prologue challenge last month. I’ve entered. You’ll find my submission, “The Adamantime Heist,” on their website. What’s Vocal? Here’s the backstory Based in New Jersey, Vocal is a competitor to Wattpad in the digital publishing space. Both companies share a similar goal: to build a […]
The final trailer for Chaos Calling: Book 1 of The Xenthian Cycle is ready. It’s posted on my YouTube channel. If you missed the first trailer, you can find that here. The ebook edition of my first novel launches one week from today. I started this project in September 2014. I remember standing in my […]
I’m taking you behind the post for my essay about how I stopped believing I would ever finish a book. It was originally published on Medium, and it’s been in my head ever since I finished the first draft of Chaos Calling. Time does funny things to your worst days. From where I sit now […]
Ten years ago, I stopped believing I would finish writing a novel. And I have never been so wrong. Editor’s note about “Don’t Stop Believing”: I originally published this essay on Medium. But their analytics are getting increasingly weird, so I’m giving it a permanent home here. * * * It was raining that night. […]
I originally wrote this post on Medium in 2015. I remember being excited that some ‘important’ Twitter accounts engaged with it. I’ve left the references to the manuscript that would eventually become Chaos Calling as-is. Once upon a time, I wrote a post assessing the pros and cons of the Wattpad platform for aspiring writers on my […]