I’ve had a hard time writing lately. I’ve been busy, of course, but that’s not the reason. I still haven’t gotten a feeling for the main character in the Wolves of Ossery so I’m changing gears. Over the past month I’ve kicked the tires of a few ideas and settled on something I didn’t see coming. Last weekend I was at Stellerfest with my buddy Bob McGough, author of The Jubal County Saga. Long story short we talked the whole weekend about his world and the prospect of me writi

Back in the early 2000s Cartoon Network ran Samurai Jack on Adult Swim. It was one of the shows I watched at night but this was before Tevo so I caught the episodes sporadically. I spotted all five seasons on HBO Max a couple weeks ago and decided to finally watch the whole series. The animation is in the same style as Power Puff Girls. The story is an evil demonic type entity called Ahku takes over the world. Jack's family has a magical sword that can defeat him but when th

Richard and AJ recommended this book to me on the drive back from Dragonsteel in Utah. I listened to it like most of my reading, and it came in at 22:36 so a pretty stout book. One thing that was really rare about it is that there’s nothing in it that bugged me. Its well written, everything makes sense, and there weren’t any inconsistencies. Nice! The story follows Locke Lamora, an orphan that’s basically taken in by organized crime syndicate. He learns the lessons of a rouge

I just got back from my last event for the year. Dragonsteel Nexus 2025. What a trip! It was the second most profitable event of the year. The challenge with this trip is that it happened in Salt Lake City, Utah. I live in North Georgia. It’s about 2,000 miles away. I shared a booth with two other author friends, Richard Fierce and Alfred Muller(AJ). We had to take all of our inventory and ourselves across the country. If it were for two people, I’d say throw everything in th