This article is bonus content for The Seventh Sons. It is meant to be read after you’ve enjoyed the book, and may contain spoilers. Sanctuary is a small Arizona town located 20 miles west of Flagstaff. Although fictional, I wanted all the locations to feel authentic. I actually found a small settlement and mapped out […]
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Every writer knows the ultimate secret to being prolific is Butt-in-Chair time. Workshops, how-to books, marketing- there’s a place for many things but they can never be a replacement for good old fashioned putting-words-to-a-page. As I’ve been carefully eyeing the release of Shade City, it occurred to me that I needed to keep moving forward. […]
Some fellow authors are writing blog posts that relate to their books and vacation. I thought that was interesting because I just started adding Seventh Sons bonus content about Flagstaff, Arizona. Read my entry here. As far as the rest of the authors, please take time to check out their posts. GSRG Blog Tour Stops […]
As a kid, I remember watching An American Werewolf in London for the first time. The movie features an amazing transformation scene. It is a comedy yet is still horrifying, especially in 1981. That same year, The Howling and Wolfen were also released. Somewhere along the journey from then to now, werewolves became pigeonholed. Instead […]
It was a short week. I only got 8000 words in for the Seventh Sons sequel. There’s a bit of laziness involved that I need to nip in the bud. On the other hand, I’ve been doing my best not to pay too much attention to the launch of Shade City (The full novel is […]
This article is bonus content for Shade City: The Dead Side Blues. It is meant to be read after you’ve enjoyed the book, and may contain spoilers. Music plays a crucial role in movies and television. It is said to drive the emotion. In books, however, the mention of a song is much less impactful. […]
Shade City is officially live. The Dead Side Blues is book one of my new urban fantasy series. Dante Butcher is a twenty-four-year-old programmer living alone in Los Angeles. At least, that’s the part of him people see. He doesn’t tell them he dreams of the Dead Side: a skewed land of past and present […]
This article is bonus content for The Seventh Sons. It is meant to be read after you’ve enjoyed the book, and may contain spoilers. Arizona is the type of state that many people have an incorrect impression of. The south side of the Grand Canyon, for example, is much more forested than people imagine. All […]
It’s well-known advice for self-publishers to write books in a series. The reasoning is simple. If one book of a trilogy sells, they all will. Running an ad and taking a loss on one can still be profitable on sequels. And of course, book one can be permafree. However, the familiarity of sequels runs deeper […]
I fear my social media presence this week has been dismal. But you know what? I don’t care. In fact, I’m downright pleased with myself. Because I started writing the Seventh Sons sequel on Tuesday. My word count goal is 2500 a day, and I hit that all four days. That’s over 10k words in […]
