Welcome

Welcome to my humble, digital abode. Thank you for taking the time to peruse my website. I'm happy to answer any questions, and I appreciate any comments you wish to share. I enjoy meeting readers and fellow writers, so don't hesitate to contact me via email or connect with me through Twitter, Facebook, or Google+. Enjoy your stay!

News

May: I know I haven’t updated the site in a while, but that’s mostly due to the fact I haven’t had any spectacular news to share. But now I do. I decided on a better title for the second Chroniker City book: The Guild Conspiracy. Now, I had originally planned to have the first draft of this book finished by now, but with life and things, I’ve yet to accomplish that. This book has been a lot more difficult to write than The Clockwork Giant, and I probably shouldn’t have expected a miraculous four month first draft a second time. That was unrealistic of me. The reality is that I’m about one-third done with the first draft. After realizing I had some plotting issues to sort out, I’m having to start over… again. But I’m keeping ninety percent of what I’ve already written. So there’s that. I would very much like for the release date for The Guild Conspiracy to be sometime this December, but because of life and having such a hard time with it, I don’t know if that’ll happen. It’s very likely that it won’t be released until early 2013. However, I plan to have a definite date for you by the end of the summer, so don’t fret too much.

In other news, you are likely to see some changes around here in the next few months. You’ll find that I’ve already updated my bio, and I plan to update my “official” author photo soon as well. Warning: it’ll be a touch goofy. I’m playing with the idea of rewriting the back cover copy of The Clockwork Giant to make it more interesting or hooky or less plain or whatever. I might just tweak it and leave it pretty much the same. I have also redesigned the cover for The Clockwork Giant, which, if you go searching through my blog posts, you’ll find it. I’ll post it here on the site once I’ve updated the actual ebook and paperbook cover. The updated book will include a more definite release date for the second book as well as an excerpt. I also plan on making a new book trailer for The Clockwork Giant to coincide with the update of the actual book. And there is one more place you can find me on the web. I’ve made a Pinterest board for the Chroniker City series, where I’ll post quotes and pictures from the book.

If you want to keep up with things as they develop, either with The Clockwork Giant specifically, or the series as a whole, just follow me on my blog, which I now update every Monday and Thursday. While I do a lot of posts about the writing craft, I do throw in some personal posts every now and then.