Ember
I’ve been playing around with making avatars for my characters. Ember was a little tricky because she’s a warrior who doesn’t care much about her appearance, but at the same…
What is a chapter, anyway?
The official-ish definition is: a division of a book, usually with a name or number.How genetically unhelpful. 🙂 To me, a chapter is a scene told from the POV of…
Artwork
am not much of an artist. About the only thing I can draw by hand is a penguin wearing a beanie and scarf. I can draw that because once I…
Backfire
I am not a big social media person. I have accounts, but rarely feel an urge to post, much less post all the time. Someone suggested it might help if…
Fechin & Azar
Fechin & Azar are characters in Raven Chronicles. Their story has a Hades & Persephone theme. Fechin tries to do what he thinks is the right thing, but veers into a…
Krakens
I love to write underwater scenes, especially if I can throw a random Kraken into the mix. Scuba diving is one of my favorite things to do. Unfortunately I have…
Tangents & Connections
I love connecting events and characters from one story to another. Authors who introduce characters that are interesting or entertaining enough to create spinoffs are my favorite. I love series…
Dream & Lemminki
In Viktoria’s story and prequel I introduced Dream. She is one of those pesky Maidens of Pohjola who was only meant to be a briefly mentioned side character but became…
Snorkeling Elephants
Africa is huge and one of my favorite places to travel. The continent offers a variety of landscapes from jungles to vast, open plains, to beaches and coral reefs, to…
Viktoria & Jael
Viktoria and Jael are the couple in my second story — Viktoria’s Shadow: Jael. In the first book, Ember is someone who knows nothing about magic or anything supernatural, so…