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How Much Inaccuracy is Acceptable In Fantasy?

               My first book where a publisher requested the full manuscript was ultimately rejected. Among the many concerns of the book, was that “This author doesn’t know much about medieval culture”.

               To this day I still think this is a stupid comment, but to each their own. It was explicitly making fun of fantasy tropes as a whole as opposed to it being a primer about Ye Olde England in the thirteenth century, ultimately the novel was a love letter to the tropes I enjoy...

Magus Gambit out for Ebook, Instagramming

Magus Gambit has been released – books get pushed back all the time. I learned years ago there’s nothing I can do about certain things, so focus on what I can do. If you’re waiting for print, Champagne tends to wait six months to a year, as said before it’s something I don’t control and, even when I have ordered print, orders can sometimes be delayed.

I’m hoping that if Cooks Creek has a medieval festival, 1) They’ll let me sell 2) I’ll have copies of it and Fable in addition to the others, b...

Better Late than Never 2023 Round Up

Happy New Year! Normally I do a December wind up and talk about where I am and where I’d like to be, the short of it is the last four months have been really emotionally draining for personal reasons. I keep on keeping on, and even was able to use my stat time to take some time off end of November/early December, but my body decided it had enough so I’ve been fighting off something for almost two weeks now. I was feeling better last week but it’s not all coughs and sniffles.

I got my thinking...

Cover Reveal for A Fable of Wood and String and November Update

I know it’s pretty early for a cover reveal, but I noticed some of my favourite cover artists are booked a few months in advance and myinquiry became a booking. This is so pretty, now I need to edit the manuscript properly. It’s a spin off of The Mermaid and the Unicorns and will be handled by the same publisher, Black Unicorn Books. I am not committing to a time at this point, my honest guess would be
sometime around June 2024. NaNoWriMo didn’t happen but that’s okay.

The artist is Hannah St...

Publishing Delay, Editing Delay, Title Change

Magus’ Gambit has been pushed back to December – don’t ask. I sent in the pre-edits on Book 3, I am hoping to start a new project for Champagne after I finish the duology I am working on. On the current project, my aunt is the only one who has given me feedback and Ron is behind in his stuff, I can go ahead with some of the editing but Ron is usually good for telling me when my pacing sucks. I had it in my brain I could have the first book ready to go to an editor before the end of a year, but a...

Review for The Ranger’s Apprentice (Main Series)

               Magus’ Gambit new launch date is December 11 2023. Don’t ask me I have other projects on the burner and I’ve said it before: If the difference is a project is better because it takes a few months more I say take all the time they need; proofreaders and editors have lives and I have something to edit.

               I can probably get the second book of Master of Puppets done by end of year – probably by November if I tried but I’m in no real rush. I have the book at 3 beta ...

Mounts and Draft Animals / General Update

My life at the bottom.

I was doing research (or rather, refresher) on horses because historically, we didn’t really have breeds so much as horses and other animals were bred for a reason, and the breeds came later. Horses in the medieval era were typically very expensive, but they were designated by function. I know fantasy is more than the medieval era, but it makes zero sense for me in a random fantasy world to talk about my appaloosa, so two birds one stone.

Destriers, for instance, wer...

Magus Gambit Cover Reveal

Release news and more as we get closer to the release date, which is currently September. If you haven’t had a chance to read book 1, Witchslayer’s Scion is available at Champagne Books or your choice of online retailer. The third book, Titan’s Ascent, it under contract and I have started book 4 but, I am planning on doing another project for Champagne before I launch ahead with that and make it more than a trilogy.

I will talk covers and other things later. I have been working on a few ...

Thoughts on Julie Kagawa’s Iron Fey (1-4)

I met Kagawa at C4’s Lit Fest in 2014 and she’s generally awesome; we had a lot of fun on our panels together. She probably won’t remember me and when I say “I met Blah blah blah” assume unless I refer to them a lot they probably won’t remember me.

I try to read people I know, and had her work on my radar, but she’s more successful than most so reading her books was not a priority. Fast Forward to COVID and I can’t even really go to a bookstore so I start picking off my Goodreads To-Read Lis...

End of Round 1 of Vacation; Thoughts on Sound of Freedom

Not so much a review on the film, so much as the drama around it. It’s a solid film, terrible subject matter but I heard about it a few years ago and wanted to see it. Tried to see it a few days ago and the theatre was sold out; waltzed in last-minute post-swim and the theatre was almost sold out again at a 115 matinee on a Wednesday, so I guess lots of people are interested in seeing it at the one of two screens having showings in Winnipeg.

What I don’t understand are all the people decr...