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Book Review – The Thirteenth Hour by Trudie Skies

Amazing Worldbuilding and Beautifully Flawed Characters 5 Stars I’m going to try to keep this review spoilers free. Trudie builds a world as unique as they come in my recent memory. She constructs the City of Chime, a central realm connected to the 12 God ruled realms via a gate near its central clock tower. […]

Enter “The Collective” – Shared Universe writing

Some years ago, I read a book by a good friend of mine that was called a “shared universe”. Basically, several authors wrote stories within the same world. Sometimes they overlapped and sometimes not. It was an intriguing concept that swindled around in the back of my mind for awhile. Fast forward a little and […]

Daddy/Jackson Day 9/20/2021

Today did not go all according to plan.

Jackson wants to go “Bishing”

I’ll clarify this post at the beginning before anyone gets confused. “Bishing” means “Fishing”. This summer, my youngest has discovered the ages old past time of fishing. He’s absolutely mad for it. He even sounds like a cranky old fisherman sometimes. Where we spend our summers, he’s been using canned corn to fish from the […]

My Daughter, The Teacher

Super proud dad moment that I have to tell the world about. for some background, we are in our third year of raising monarch butterflies for release. By gathering the eggs and caterpillars we find in the wild, we can make sure they grow up predator free and released healthy into the wild as butterflies. […]

Week in Review- June 19th, 2021

This was a big week in the Ferrell Household. I managed to write two scenes for book 4 of my urban fantasy series, Family Heritage. A third scene is formulated but not fully written. I began a new short story for Meteor Falls. Oh yeah, and I turned 39. Last year of the 30s before […]

June 2021??????

How in all that is written is it June already? It feels like we just had the doubleheader of my wife’s birthday and then Valentine’s Day. Lots to talk about so I may ramble a bit. February I participated in a Pitch Party on Twitter (you can follow me here). I got a grand total […]

1 Month Down 2021 Edition

January was a good month for me on a lot of fronts, although I didn’t blog about them. I did put a bit more of my writing journey on Facebook on my author page though. January Writing News: 30558 words written. Most of it in my just over 27k MG/YA fantasy novel. “Sibling Rivalry: A […]

Teen Driver In the House

I wanted to write this post two weeks ago, but a combination of the holidays and no small amount of procrastination has delayed these thoughts. My oldest officially became a licensed driver the week before Christmas. I’m immensely proud of the young man he’s becoming. Sure there are still some things he does that annoy […]

Becoming a plotter?!?!

Let’s start the year off right with a new phase of my life for 2021 – The age old debate amongst writers. That eternal battle between Plotters and Pantsers. I’ve always considered myself a Pantser. Most of the time I have a character and a vague idea and away we go. Probably why I have […]