This is a series I wrote and released on this day seven years ago. As it turns out, I was prophetic. Just about everything I spoke about in this series is more or less the state of the industry right now…or heading there. For that reason, I’m bringing it forward again, so it doesn’t get […]
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It is sheer coincidence, but this week I seem to be talking about character inspiration all over the place. I was talking about the character inspiration for Neven in the Kiss Across Worlds book on my newsletter. I’m also currently plotting book 9.0 of the Scandalous Scions series (which currently has no name), and thick in
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Way back when mapmakers were first starting to document the shape of the world, when they reached an area on the map that wasn’t known, they frequently put comments like “here be dragons.” As most of the books in the Once and Future Hearts series deal with members of the Pendragon family, the dragons are
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As I mentioned on Tuesday, this week is Tolkien week. Today, being the twenty-second, is Frodo and Bilbo Baggins’ birthdays. Theirs is not the only household to have two birthdays on the same date. In my house, Mark and I have the same birthday, which also happens to be on the twenty-second. February, but still the
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It is Tolkien week, this week. September 22nd is Frodo and Bilbo Baggins’ shared birthdays. I’ve always been personally pleased that the 22nd is marked in this way, because Mark and I both have our birthdays on the twenty-second, too. February 22nd, but the date does tend to jump out at me. I don’t usually
Spooks and the intelligence community they work within is one of the hardest subjects to research. Because of the secretive nature of their work, which lingers long after they’ve retired, and for the sake of the security of their country, most spooks not only don’t talk about their work, but often even their families don’t
You may not be aware that, in another life, I run a productivity blog for writers, the Productive Indie Fiction Writer. I have been interested in productivity for a long time, and the blog is a natural outlet for that interest. When I was researching a blog post for the site the other day, I
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Today is International Chocolate Day. You should absolute celebrate that! Preferably with a good book, and a really good cup of tea or coffee (chocolate goes brilliantly with both). Did you know that chocolate –especially dark chocolate with high cacoa content and little or no diary–has health benefits? It’s good for your heart, among other
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I don’t think we’ll ever forget. Not this generation…
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This is another long post that ran in conjunction with the release of Bannockburn Binding (the individual book, not the series boxed set that was released a few weeks ago!). The blog where it appeared has long gone. (Yet I’m still here. There’s a sobering thought.) I’m preserving the post here, instead. — t. I’ve been
Time travel as tourism…where would you go? Read More »