Month: January 2018

And so Nicolas arrives… the Gate of the Deep.

While a bit of this second book has, and will be, played out while I’m tucked safely in the warmth of our quiet home, sitting at a homemade desk in a small bedroom upstairs…I find my most of my muses huddled around a wood-burning stove out in the shadowed shop behind our house. A fitting place, I think, for Nicolas to come to grips with the Gate of the Deep. The City of Relic’s gatekeep that faces the dreaded fog-banks of the Cold Sea…

It was the tradition with A Place With Dragons that I read aloud each chapter to my family as each chapter was finished. I think the greatest test of good writing is the writing’s ability to be read aloud and understood and truly enjoyed by the audience…

This evening I read the first two chapters of A Murder of Crows to my wife and daughter. The chapters passed muster…

Barnes & Noble in Wichita, KS, on a Saturday afternoon, and look what’s on some of their display Nook readers!!

And finally, with more than a few belabored key strokes, Nicolas has arrived once again in Telluric Grand… War Crows await!

Been thinking a lot about Nicolas’ friend, Ranulf, Son of Renfry… Much of the second book, A Murder of Crows, will center around him and how his past has now crafted his present; to once again cross paths with War Crows from the east…

It’s peculiar to have to write about things you don’t care for in order to write about those things you do. I really like Ranulf. I think he has a deep sense of kindness and strength in him even though his life has been unkind and broken. He’s quiet about these things for the most part and about how deeply they’ve effected him; how they’ve ripped apart something inside of him, torn something that will now lead him to do things and say things he hates. … I’ve been thinking a lot about that, and I hope I understand it well enough to write this book with the kind of audacity Ranulf needs to come through it. To heal. To be who he has always wanted to be.