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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...

Let’s KICK OFF SUMMER!

Hopefully I’ll get to kayak this season, my current vehicle lacks a roof rack so I’m depending on other people and, that seldom ends well. I’m sort of in financial limbo as the union could call a strike any day, so I’m not eager to run out and spent $$$ on a big ticket item. I have money in savings, I have back ups, I’m fine; I have to be smart.

I heard back from Champagne that Magus’ Gambit, the second book in the Rogue Healer series is delayed until September 18. I learned years ago not...

Too many Characters? What I wish I would Have Known

So my beta reader and my niece are critiquing the current project and it’s hilarious how much they disagree. This isn’t new because I used to do writers circles and critique groups until I realized that most people aren’t going to be particularly helpful. People who like emotional gut wrenchers want different things than someone more technically inclined, for instance.

On a side note, sometimes they totally do agree (they both want more Tiffany – I get it guys), I know one of my weaknesse...

Spring is Finally Here (What Happened? No seriously, what happened??) and Philosophical Meandering with World Building

It doesn’t feel like April on account that we had the usual birthday blizzard, but this round with no False Spring in which for a week in March, we’re all breaking out the shorts and deluded winter’s done. I have been stupid busy with work that it doesn’t feel like mid April; I guess I find out if the strike vote goes forward soonish; we’ll be mandated to work and I’m not against that. One of the few mandates I agree with, actually.

Oh, and Ballad bloated right up and is now a 160k monste...

Review for The Windfeather Saga – Books and TV Series (First Season)

               I first came across the animation for the show when I was on The Babylon Bee, so while waiting for the animated premier I checked out the first book, and quickly got another copy of the first book for my niece for Christmas. It’s a little on the advanced side for her at nine (she likes chapter books, but I’m a terrible judge because of my own reading at that age) but the tv show recently put a disclaimer that the show is meant for ages seven and up, mostly due to the violence ...

A Ballad of Wood and Strings: Concepts, Follow Through, Revision

    I don’t normally like writing about my ideas because they’ll change but, this is as good a time as any to talk about my concepts, and what all changes. There’s plenty of happy accidents, things I didn’t consider, and really the first draft is me taking concepts and scenes and telling myself the story. Revision and editing is where I go, “And I meant to do that”.

               I wrote The Mermaid and the Unicorns for my niece when she was just starting to read chapter books, knowing it wo...