It's here. After a couple of decades of writing this book, it's finally going to ship. And it now has a beautiful cover to grace its pages. Cindy Wentzell is an artist I worked with on many, many projects back at Legend Entertainment. You can see her work scattered throughout this site on games like... Continue Reading →

One of the things I did to promote my upcoming book was to send it out to a few authors in the field of fantasy. One of them was Piers Anthony. Piers is a fantasy legend. His books introduced me to the genre when I was in high school. I devoured every series, like Xanth,... Continue Reading →

Even though I've been working on this title for a while, I haven't said anything here about it. Well, that has to change. Meet the Game of War, the prequel YA fantasy novel to the Child of Chaos! According to many of my early readers, one of the most interesting supporting characters in Child of... Continue Reading →

I was honored to be asked on Joe Compton’s Young Adult panel on Go Indie Now! It was a little intimidating, given that this was my first podcast as an author and I was in the company of some very accomplished writers in the genre (although I argue that YA isn’t exactly a genre). I... Continue Reading →

Changes are what editing is all about! Today, I completed my editorial edit of my YA manuscript, the Child of Chaos. It addressed a bunch of issues identified by my eagle-eyed beta readers. Let me be clear: while I'm very proud of this work of fiction, it would not be nearly the story it is... Continue Reading →

Can you believe that it has been 20 years since Legend Entertainment Company released the original Wheel of Time computer game? It’s true, and a walk through the wayback machine confirms it. To get this out of the way, if you’re a fan of the game and you find yourself here, then you have no... Continue Reading →

From out of nowhere, my child has offered up another piece of fan art for my upcoming novel, the Child of Chaos. This one depicts Myra, the protagonist's twin sister, and Syosset, the High Priestess of Charity. While Syosset looks a little younger and more innocent than I imagined, I love this take on two... Continue Reading →

Perhaps inspired by my recent behind-the-scenes write-up of Death Gate, CrankyTemplar (aka James Baram) recently posted a video including all of the possible ways to lose/die in the game. It's an impressive piece of investigative reporting, achieved by someone with a literal death wish. While I rarely dedicated graphics or animation to silly deaths, I... Continue Reading →

I've added a new section to the blog: the story behind Death Gate, an old school graphic adventure game based on the classic book series by Margaret Weis and Tracy Hickman. For a split second, Good Old Games released Death Gate on their site until they realized that they didn't have the book license--but for... Continue Reading →

For Father's Day, my youngest child created the first Child of Chaos fan art for my upcoming novel, and it's wonderful. It depicts the scene from the prologue (which you can read in the novels section) of Lorre frozen in front of the statue of War, with the dice artifacts at her feet. You can... Continue Reading →