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.…
The Editing Doom Tunnel
What happens when I suddenly realise I have an editing deadline. Yes, yes, I do schedule the deadlines myself. Somehow, they still sneak up on me. No, contrary to popular…
The Scorpio Races
Sometimes, I come across a story so evocative, I feel compelled to draw it. Any scene from Maggie Stiefvater's The Scorpio Races deserves hours spent with acrylic or watercolours, but…