Hi, I’m an indie author. It’s a labor of love. Most of the time, I feel like I’m writing for myself. Most of the time, I’m just scraping by with my day job. Making a living from writing fiction has been a pipe dream, but one I refuse to give up on. Way back in […]
I’m sitting at my desk this morning with Crone of Oria out in the wild with beta readers and Hacked by the Beast sliding into the inboxes of ARC readers—and you’d think I’d feel accomplished. Productive. Maybe even relaxed? Yeah. No. Instead, I’m staring down the what-next of it all, hopped up on caffeine and
This Thursday, Echoes of Oria releases into the world, and with it, the beginning of something I’ve been dreaming about for a long time. And working on for even longer. I think I wrote the first chapter more than ten years ago, then promptly forgot about it until September of last year. Oria is more
I’ve been asked a few times why I chose Basque families to settle the fictional town of Oria. Honestly? It started as a way to avoid the usual suspects. When I first began building the world behind Echoes of Oria, I knew I wanted the town to feel old—like really old. Not just in terms