There has been a great response to the Muirwood trilogy so far. I enjoy hearing from readers, so please do let me know what you think of it. My wife finished it and I have a few edits to make based on her feedback, but we’re substantially done. I have

Over the last month I have been reading the entire trilogy and finished Scourge on Wednesday night. I made some final edits and have now posted it to the website here: Scourge of Muirwood I have had some great feedback so far (thank you Emily, Mel, Jenna, and Rachelle) and

While looking on Google Images for a picture of Wells cathedral on a misty morning, I came across Stephen Spraggon’s website and blog. He is a photographer in Somerset, England, and has a marvelous eye for capturing color and light. He lives in the place where the Muirwood series has

I finished the final touches on The Scourge of Muirwood this week, wrapping up a trilogy that has been several years in the making. There is still much to do still – like re-reading the entire trilogy to see how it flows and blends, but having finished the series is

“The thing that hath been, it is that which shall be; and that which is done is that which shall be done: and there is no new thing under the sun.” (Eccl 1:9) I’ve heard the cliche before (no new thing under the sun), but I experienced it recently working on

I’m impressed with Brandon Sanderson. I first learned about him back in the days of Deep Magic, the e-zine that some friends and I published many years ago. He had just come out with his first novel (Elantris) and I managed to interview him for the ‘zine and also enjoyed

I am about 200 pages into SCOURGE right now and things are heating to a boil. I wish I had more time to write, but at least I have been able to keep pace with a chapter a week. Lately I have been mulling the technological transformation that is currently

It was interesting (or ironic) that I was going to write a blog posting today and happened across an article in the LA Times. Gotta love Google News feeds. http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/news/arts/la-ca-endurability7-2010feb07,0,4119789.story What struck me about the article is how broken the publishing system is today. It has not transformed fully yet

During the holidays in December, I was able to start on the third installment of the Muirwood series. I have completed the first 80 pages so far and hope to finish the project by September 2010. There are a lot of words to write between here and there, but I

It was a treat in mid-November to visit H. Clarke Powers school in Loomis, CA. I was invited to be the guest author to a group of kids who had read all the required reading in their classes. There were about forty to fifty kids there and I read them