The Cursed Princes Sampler
The following are opening chapters of the first five Cursed Princes books. Find out more about the series here. Content warnings here. Jump to: The Rose Ball Rebels • As…
How hot do you like it?
'Spice' in literature As you know, I write (and read) a range of ‘spice’ levels (for the innocent, ‘spice’ generally refers to sex, particularly in romantasy). Personally, it depends on…
Darkhaven – Sample
Chapter 1: A Chocolate Overdose Kind of Problem I had imagined, age five, that an adult was something you suddenly became, probably around the same time you grew that monumental…
Chocolate for Editing
An oldie! I made this when I first started out as a novelist, somewhere in the ten-thousandth revision of Darkhaven. Probably.
September Poetry Challenge #1
1 Secrets and oaths He never held back on the hug.That was why she kept comingAnd he kept comingAnd she swallowed, over and over and over,The lie.It could have been…
Fox’s Map of the Creative Journey
I have many thoughts on the creative process. On social pressure. On the 'tortured artist'. Not all of them can be condensed into a page of silly scribbles, but some…
Story Burn
That feeling of a story all coming together in my head and that I need to write it all down all at once right now, and until I do I can't think…
Authorial origins of the Lightless Prophecy
How did the Lightless Prophecy (the series, not the actual prophecy) come to be? The Lightless Prophecy saga began with the premise 'what if we should have magic on Earth'.…
Plans sprouting wings and flying away
(That heading will make no sense if you're not receiving my newsletter!) Plans get away from me when I stumble and begin to doubt my ability. But it's so rarely…
Memory Weave: Book 3 Cover Reveal!
It's green! It's spacey! It's mystical! I love this one because it has a magical intergalactic feel to it, which is exactly what the Lightless Prophecy series is all about.…