I’m only a few chapters into the first draft of my 2019 series, which means the characters, the plot, and even the world are entirely in flux. This is the dreamtime of a novel, when I submerge myself in ideas without requiring any of them to stick. Here’s what I know: My heroine is a modern-day…
I can’t actually remember what was going through my head a year ago when decided that my next protagonist was going to be a kitsune — a Japanese fox shifter. I think I was perusing lists of traditional shifter types and stumbled across this unfamiliar being with so many fascinating traits. Despite that gap in…
My first novel-length story erupted out of me during late elementary school. I remember spending hours scribbling down Violet’s adventures, but the plot is completely lost to the mists of time…or so I thought until last week. Imagine my surprise when my mother dug up the drawing and typed scene above, proving that Violet was…
Sebastien is a bit of a dark horse through much of the Wolf Legacy series. He has interesting tics and traits that speak to a shadowed past…and he’s not very willing to share those intimate details with the general public. I tried to interview him earlier to give my loyal readers insight into into his…
In fall 2017, I launched a new series that returns to a character from the Wolf Rampant series…twenty-four years later than when you saw her last. Ember is now all grown up and facing new challenges. But before you learn more about those trials and tribulations, I thought you might enjoy a story from the…
Those of you who’ve read Verdant Magic will be familiar with the heroine for the book I’m currently working on. Sabrina Fairweather is the captain of an airship…and in Cerulean Magic it was time to give the captain a crew. But how many employees would Sabrina need and what would each one do? I started…
As you might expect, overland travel is difficult in a post-apocalyptic world in which plants like nothing more than eating pesky people alive. Dragons have no problem winging where they will. But the common Joe had to find another solution. Some turned to river travel while others built…airships! In the first novel in the series,…
My 2017 series is veering off into uncharted territory — dragon shifters, enchanted jewelry, elemental mages, airships, and much more. Which means my notebooks are full of maps, charts, and odds and ends that at least a few of you may enjoy. Let’s start with maps! The Dragon Mage Chronicles revolve around a set of…
Pretty soon, I’ll be posting the first chapter of Wolf Landing to get those digestive juices flowing. But, for now, I thought you might enjoy seeing shots of a few of the settings from the upcoming book. There are no spoilers for Wolf Landing in this post, but I’m assuming you’ve read the previous books…
One of my readers ended up scratching his head over werewolf dominance in my Alpha Underground series. And while I don’t want to add an infodump within the book (since, let’s face it, 95% of readers don’t care why Hunter is so dominant as long as he is), I figured I’d share my answer here for…