My short story, Letter from Lynchburg, has been published at Drabblecast. It’s also available there as a podcast or through their usual feed. Letter from Lynchburg is a missive story–it’s a letter that Charles Mercer wrote to his fianceé in 1865, about a decade before he became a major character in Sharpshooter as Captain Mercer. […]
In 2017, I stopped by the Cozens Ranch museum as part of my research for Sidekick. This weekend, we made it back up to Fraser, Colorado for a visit. My wife thought it’d be fun to have a picture of me, with the book, at the museum. I donated two signed copies to the museum […]
So… I have a dragon in Gunslinger. How fast can a dragon realistically fly? It’s a soaring animal, more than one that flaps its wings a lot. It’s also big. So what’s the comparable. A little internet research turns up that Condors can fly at 35 mph (that’s not a top speed, more of an […]
I’m proud to announce that my short story, Calamity, which features Gunslinger Beth, is available in the Swords, Sorcery, and Self-Rescuing Damsels anthology. The paperback version is out now–the ebook will be out April 16. You can find it through the universal link here. The rest of the stories are good too. 😉
Sharpshooter: The Tale of Billy the Kid and the Tennessee Raid Seven years after destroying the Confederacy and most of the Union, the Jotunheim giants threaten a defenseless New England. The Army of the West plans a bold attack on Louisville to divert them. Billy McCarty’s nightmares drove him to enlist as a sharpshooter. He […]
The good news is that I have almost everything I need to release Sharpshooter. The cover’s done. The interior maps are done. I have comments back from all but one of my beta readers. The bad news is that I caught a serious cold way back on January 8, and still have it as of […]
I’m a regular listener to J. Daniel Sawyer’s podcast, The Every Day Novelist. Recently another listener asked about how to “stress test” an idea for a story. I provided some feedback, which Dan pointed out in a feedback episode was more about stress testing a universe than an idea. He also pointed out that many […]
Well, the holidays have consumed my writing time. So I’m going to postpone the release of Sharpshooter to February 15.
I’m nearly done with Sharpshooter. Yeah! So I’m aiming to release it on February 1, 2019. Feel free to check back here for updates, or you can join my mailing list and you’ll get an email when it’s out. So close!
As I’ve been writing Sharpshooter, I’ve had to wrestle with a bunch of questions about how the Jotun giants run their society. Specifically, what resources do they have? Food and water are fairly straightforward. They basically eat the same stuff we humans do. So they just have to eat a lot more of it. So […]