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I had the opportunity to write a guest post for the Urban Fantasy/YA oriented literature blog, The Nocturnal Library. I choose to share the story of how and why I became a self-published author. You can check it out here:



I'm a regular reader of the site myself, and have discovered (and been forewarned to avoid) several interesting books there, and both the people who run the blog and the readers are both nice and passionate bibliophiles of the best kind. I recommend paying The Nocturnal Library a visit. Cheers!

Sorry for my long absence. I have a bunch of things to tell you about, and a bunch of books to review, but I will have to leave both of those things for another day.

You see, I've been writing. Rather productively, actually. I will have a number of new things for all of you before October, including a Central Series short story (free), a new and super-enhanced version of Paranoid Magical Thinking (free to those who already own it), better edits of The Academy and The Anathema, a brand new short story series, and finally, my latest 'Cthulhu Noir' light novel - The Night Market.

So, hopefully, you will forgive my long absence and relative silence, in return for lots of new stuff. That's a good deal, right?

More news to come shortly!

I'm not sure why - maybe I just like round numbers. Maybe it's the addition of the sixth digit. Who knows.

Anyway, that's the number of words in The Far Shores as of today. Which feels like some sort of accomplishment.

I've still got a ways to go, obviously - the Central Series novels tend to average in the 130,000-135,000 range, and I'm not sure where this one will fall, but I'm certainly in the end game.

For myself, the beginning of a novel isn't so bad. It's the middle that's an uphill battle, a slog where I might only nail down a few hundred words, or just stare blankly at the Word document, on a bad day. But the end - that always flies by, at the rate of thousands of words a day. I'm well on schedule to finish the writing stage before the end of the month.

At that point, I will do a read through and rewrite of my own, bringing the beginning in line with the end, altering things that I changed during the course of the book, and making revisions that occurred to me long after the text was completed and I had moved on. Since I don't go backwards or revise until I have finished the entire text, this is an inevitable necessity for all of my novels. Then it will move to my story editors, who will critique the plot and character development, and I will make the majority of the changes they suggest. Finally, it will head off to the proofer, who will fix up my grammar and polish the text.

And then, finally, into the reader's hands.

I can't wait until The Far Shores is complete. I have a short story collection and two Unknown Kadath-themed light novels (The Mysteries of Holly Diem and the tenatively-titled Yael and the Cats of Ulthar) that are partially complete that I am just dying to finish. Next year will see at least three releases, and maybe even four, if everything works to plan!

Back to work. Best to you all.

It's finally live! The third book in the Central Series, The Far Shores is now available on the Kindle Store for just 99 cents.



I hope y'all enjoy it!

Starting today, and running through Sunday, all of my books are on sale at Amazon.

The first two Central Series novels, The Academy and The Anathema are both free!

My light novels, The Night Market and Paranoid Magical Thinking are both only 99 cents.

Please take advantage while they are free/cheap. Cheers!