Life in the Middle Ages

 As I have discussed earlier on this blog, self-publishing ("indie" publishing) is a complicated process.  The author has to not o...

 There's an old saying, "You can't judge a book from its cover."  It means that glancing at something's exterior won...

 A lot of readers like series.  They get to know and like the characters, they enjoy the world in which the characters function, and they ar...

Okay, historians generally put the close of the Middle Ages at the end of the fifteenth century, somewhere in the decades surrounding the ye...

The second book in a series never gets the love or attention of the first book.  So today I want to talk a little about The Wood Nymph and t...

I've got a new paperback! It's an omnibus edition of the fourth and fifth books in the Yurt series, The Witch and the Cathedral...

I've been writing stories since I was five years old.  Being a published author is a more recent development, however.  It's been ju...

As I discussed in an earlier post , one of the big challenges of publishing as an independent (rather than through one of the Big Six New Yo...

Modern fantasy and science fiction are now considered more-or-less the same genre.  Although they are shelved together in bookstores, they a...

Authors have enormous power.  We can create whole new worlds without the muss and fuss of hiring Industrial Light & Magic or Weta Worksh...

I've always enjoyed fantasy as well as real medieval history.  So when the characters for what became my first published novel, "A ...