Educator, Fantasy and science fiction author, sketching hobbyist, and gaming enthusiast MUCH too big for his britches.
Originally posted on First Line Reader:
Today was the day a thousand dreams would die and a single dream would be born. First line in The Kiss of Deception by Mary E. Pearson I’m here with another wrap up because somehow September ended. It was a weird month for me blogging-wise. I haven’t had a…
Hey, my book has a free promotion going on! Go onto Amazon and grab a free copy! (Or a paperback. We have it in paperback now). Today’s the last day it’s running. I’d have told you earlier, but I have work I’m doing now and time is precious. I had a much longer idea I … More Writing and Revision (Plus the first chapter of Book 2!)
I wanted to post on why I wrote the book the way I did–with horribly crude language and confrontational dialogue on taboo issues. … More Why I wrote my book the way I did (Also, it’s out now.)
Updated draft of the cover! We’re making progress, slowly but surely. You can see it has the prison camp now and we got rid of the “Squire Chad” bit, so all it has now is the Solomon Code Series. Much better. I actually thought of “Solomon Code” before any of the individual books—just because it … More I hate Self-Promotion (plus a preview of The Nephilim Protocol)
They say that you should promote your books by posting about things your target audience is interested in. So, naturally I’m promoting my Paranormal YA book about half-angel teenagers by writing a blog post about the writing notes of JRR Tolkien. Not like I’ve written about that before or anything, or shared fanfiction I almost … More 6 Ideas Tolkien Abandoned for The Lord of the Rings.
Okay, so I’ve been meaning to do an update to that Camelot swords post for ever, because there’s a LOT of cool sword legends across the world and King Arthur doesn’t remotely have a monopoly on the things, but I’ve gotten distracted, so I haven’t had the chance. But now I’m caught up, and I’m … More Famous Swords Pt 2: The World
“I’m halfway to the nurse’s office when I hear the gunshots, and my first thought is: I just know I’m going to get blamed for this.” … More Nephilim Protocol publishing update and 1st Chapter
“No, bro, going viral is easy,” said my little brother. “Oh c’mon,” I scoffed. “If it were easy, companies would reliably go viral all the time.” “You just gotta post on controversial stuff,” said my brother. “There’s guys who just post both sides of a controversial and shrug, and their stuff is crazy popular.” Whatever. … More The Pipe Dream of Reopening In-Person Learning.
Everyone loves swords. Even America, with our obsession with gunfighters and revolvers, loves the image of two people facing off against each other with sharpened pieces of metal. It’s iconic. Star Wars may have blasters and planet-destroying rays, but let’s be real; the really cool thing about its space wizards is their laser swords. And … More Magical Swords, Pt. 1: Camelot
I mostly post unfinished stories on here, but this is a fun little drabble that I wrote as a bet of sorts with my students–they gave me a prompt and I wrote a story on it while they were working on their own short stories. None of them actually seemed very interested, but I enjoyed … More Story: The Last English Teacher
