All right, everyone, this is it! I’ve launched the long-threatened Patreon, complete with free books and expanded tiers. At the free level — which you can just look at on this website, really — are weekly batches of chapters from the entire Children of the Desert series (which is out of print). At the $1/month…
Revisiting Secrets of the Sands, Ch 5-9
Previous annotated chapters (1-4) UPGRADE TO THE NEXT TIER Next annotated chapters (11-15) (Will post 10/24) Did you want the plain chapters instead? They’re over here! (By the way, if you want to know what “content editing” means and how I, in particular, edit for clients, this is a pretty good example. I’d be more…
Characters Who Love Plants
Fair warning: this post leans more into understanding plants, in order to write about them, than into the specifics of writing itself. So you’ve got a ranger. Or some other character that just loves to wander around the woods. Maybe someone who’s getting a horticultural degree (ahem). What sort of thing do they see? That’s…
Random Research: Chalkboards
What are blackboards, even? And what are they made of? And so on.
Fall at Last!
Of too many cherry tomatoes, writing projects, and upcoming events.