get the chapter Keelia and Nara Flynn are in the battle together again, until political forces at the capitol make Keelia a pawn in someone else’s game. Your Feedback matters – we love to hear from readers This is an added chapter to Spiriti Sight Volume 1 for our newsletter readers. This is the first book in […]
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get part II of the story Kessa, a new member of the rebel group Oss’stera, finds herself out of her depth when a mission to meet with the resistance in Brennan goes horribly wrong. But she has a job to do, even if she has to risk her life to do it. Enter the world of
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Get the chapter “Rebels strike at the heart of an evil oligarchy” – a story for our times. As the leader of the rebel group Oss’stera, Alar’s burning desire to topple the oppressive empire drives him to join the resistance. But with one failure after another, he begins to question if their fight makes any
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Download the chapters “The authors offer a huge array of elements that contribute to a fully textured world that feels immersive and alive. We are brought into a complex society shaped by history, politics, art, and complete disparity of wealth and power, with no greater example than at a wedding where the economic prowess of
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Writing sparkling dialog isn’t easy, but it’s an essential writing technique to master. Good dialog sounds natural, but paradoxically, it isn’t the way real people talk. Real dialog meanders, it’s repetitive, it stops and starts. It’s boring. There is a lot to say about dialog, but in this blog, I want to talk about subtext.
I’ve been writing for a little over four years, now. And they have been productive years. I’m about to turn in my fifth book to my publisher. I hope I still have a lot of room to improve, but I’ve spent enough time to develop my own thoughts on the process and the techniques of
I wouldn’t contend that my books are art, but writing is an artistic endeavor. It requires you to open your heart, plumb your emotional depths, and invite criticism of something you love. Offering your story to the world is to invite someone to stomp your heart. I know a few writers who appear unfazed by
My favorite author, fantasy or otherwise, is Patrick Rothfuss. I would put The Name of the Wind up as the greatest fantasy novel ever written. Just my opinion. Not looking for a fight. There might be what some would consider spoilers below, and these are my personal interpretations, so be advised. As a writer, I
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Resist the Urge to Explain or RUE. It’s a rule every aspiring writer (and a few well-established authors) should learn. To illustrate what this rule means and why it works, I’ll use a scene from The Thousand Names, the first book in The Shadow Campaigns series by Django Wexler. I reread it recently and was
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“More valuable than gold, its secrets known to very few, and no one outside the Ishian River valley.” The above line, from Argren Blue, describes the blue pigment of the title. It seems farfetched that a pigment could be more valuable than gold. But, in fact, ultramarine, the blue pigment for hundreds of years was,
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