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It’s Official! North American eBook Launch!
Time to celebrate! My first novel, Thorfinn and the Witch’s Curse is officially launched in 24 hours on Amazon and Kindle Unlimited. If you have pre-ordered an eBook, it will be automatically downloaded to you tomorrow. Thank you for waiting. This big event culminates...
More Thanks for Helping Hands
Sometimes the stars align perfectly—that happened for me a few weeks before I released my first novel, when I purchased my copy of The Fantasy Writer’s Handbook by Richie Billing. Timely? Absolutely! Struggling with my final re-write after my editors’ reviews, I...
Unreliable Narrators
In the novel Thorfinn and the Witch’s Curse, many point-of-view characters hold ideas, notions and stories that are exaggerated, a bit confused, misinformed or simply wrong. A prime example, Yeru the old nurse recounts the family lore with major embellishments,...
A little help along the way…
All successful indie authors need assistance and I am going to dedicate a number of blogs to thank and cross-promote those who have aided and abetted my writing life. Today let’s celebrate the awesome Jake Caleb of JCalebdesign.com, a master at graphic design and book...
My Viking friends like The Witch’s Curse!
I am so pleased that my Swedish friend Lars-Ingemar Lundstrom finds my novel a tome true to history and an enjoyable read. He wrote... Have now read and reviewed my old friend Jay Batista's new novel, "Thorfinn and the witch's curse" about Vikings in the UK. An...
My start in Historical Fantasy
In the heyday of Advanced Dungeons & Dragons, the mid-1980’s, I wrote for TSR...back when they were financially viable and long before they sold to Wizards of the Coast, the makers of Magic: The Gathering trading cards. I was a free-lance author and TSR wanted to...
UK release reviews arrive…
New reviews of Thorfinn and the Witch's Curse have just arrived! Fantastic praise for the new book: "...a beautifully written adventurous viking story that brings mystical ancient history back to life." "Enjoyable page turning read!" "Straddling as it does the...
Just released in the UK!
In a fitting debut, the first book of the Forerunner Saga, 'Thorfinn and the Witch's Curse' has been released in the United Kingdom. This is most fitting because the story takes place in the year 888 in Jorvik, the medieval town we know today as York. This first story...
What’s a “Vardoger?”
The medieval peoples of the north believed that one's spirit inhabited one's body and the two could be separated. The body was referred to as a "lich" and the spirit was called a "hug." If a traumatic event occurred, an individual could be separated from their own...