2017 was . . . an interesting year. Aside from the dumpster fire , I went from four years of reliable, steady work to juggling chainsaws. ...

Last month, as you'll recall, I lost my game design gig. For the past several weeks, I've followed every lead I have and pulled toge...

I don't know about you, but when I read these stories, I'm always more interested in how long and difficult the journey was (it enco...

As of this morning (last night for you in the Americas), the first draft of Post-Apocalyptic Dragon-Riding Ninjas (with Mechs!) is finished...

Matthew Rush asks: Would you rather be Jirayah (Pervy Sage) or Kabuto (the dork with the glasses)? I can't say I approve of Jiraiya...

I don't want to say much about this scene. Even though Cunning Folk is T-minus-infinity years away from being published, I don't w...

No, this isn't Aang (though she does live at a temple, and she is, for all intents and purposes, firebending). I've paused work on ...

Flashbacks are hard. Why? Because they're about the past and are, therefore, backstory infodump . On top of that, they're really eas...

L. T. Host asks: What the deuce IS a jelly baby? Like little, chewy babies, but you eat them ! I'm curious which PART of the CA co...

Last time , I tried to trick my inner editor by writing notes to myself, rather than the "real draft", in the hopes that he wouldn...

Suriya first meets Anna in a hotel room, after waking from a drug-induced sleep. Anna saved her from the bounty hunter who drugged her, or...

Sometimes when I'm drafting, I have to do a quick outline or write other notes to myself to figure out what happens next. I guess I coul...

You may have heard about the protests going on in Thailand right now. Basically one group (the "red shirts") wants the prime minis...

(Fair warning: Posts may be short or non-existent the next couple of weeks. Just saying.) If you think this means I won't be careful...

I started writing The Cunning for real on Monday (so my WIP sidebar will get updated more often for a while, FYI). These are the first new ...

Suriya lives with her aunt in the mountains of Northern Thailand. She was born with the ability to control fire. Every so often, the local v...

When I started writing Travelers , it was just to prove to myself that I could do it, I could finish a novel. Sometime during that process, ...

Although I love planning and starting new novels, it makes me a little crazy too. I mean, in addition to all the normal worries (e.g. am I ...

By popular demand (8 out of 15 votes), the new working title for my WIP is The Cunning . I want to thank everyone who voted and commented. Y...

For over a year, I've been using the working title Joey Stone for my next project. The name came from a short story I wrote about a pow...