The Five Endure, but Summer wanes
Hello from Earth, Spider Lilies flank the sidewalks of our neighborhood in their showy drifts of reds and yellows. Squirrels worry away at fresh red berries on our Dogwood tree. Nighttime temperatures have cooled enough [...]
THE GREATEST SMALL AMOUNT or How I Cured Writer’s Block
This is a bit of a different post and probably of more interest to my fellow writers, though it applies just as well to non-writing activities. I was struggling to make progress in The Kingdoms [...]
A World You Won’t Want to Return From
We're home from our visit to Florida, and settling back into the rhythm of life in Virginia. Our short stay down south was an intense combination of writing, editing, and house maintenance (the southern [...]
The Kingdoms of the Core May Update–Titles and Trilogies
With the launch of The Five Emerge almost two months behind us, I thought it would be a good time to offer a quick peek behind the curtain of this mad writing laboratory. The editor [...]
Harry Potter, The Mandalorian, and Galindel
Questions for you at the bottom... The Situation:So, sometimes I can be prone to distraction by shiny new ideas. Recently, I've had one stuck in my brain, and I have the above three listed pieces [...]
Map of Taeurn (The Five Awaken)
Map of Taeurn Just a quick blog to highlight the work of the ultra-talented Joemel Requeza (visit his portfolio, here). I've been working with Joemel on Upwork.com for the last several months, and [...]
Live-reading of The Five Intro, and Rum Old Fashioned Recipe
Storytime with Shawn Hi, Everyone! I know there are several people that follow the blog, but don't follow along on Facebook, so I wanted to give a quick heads up, that I hosted [...]
Kickstarter for The Five Awaken
First off, The Kickstarter campaign for The Five Awaken, is live. Link below The Five Awaken Kickstarter If you haven't browsed over to it yet, please stop reading this post and go check it out. [...]
Too much magic?
I write fantasy novels, and as such I also read a lot of fantasy novels. So it should come as no surprise that I have encountered many different magic systems, and have even invented a [...]
Dragons!
So I'm working through a section of the book right now where one of the central characters has their first encounter with a Dragon. Like most fantasy readers, I love dragons. To me they are [...]
Happy Thanksgiving!
I sit at my computer this morning working at the craft that I love, living in a home with the woman who loves me, thinking about the family and friends that I miss greatly, living [...]
Goodbye, comfort zone. Hello, world.
Have you ever wondered what would happen if you stopped doing what you are doing, and started doing what you would want to do if you could do anything? Well, I'm about to find out. [...]