I just got back from El Dorado Hills where I met the folks at Marble Valley School. I was invited over for an author’s conference and talked about the process of writing, publishing, and success at writing. If any of the kids from there wander by my website – just

I think I’m down to the home stretch on Muirwood – another 5-6 chapters and it should be finished. As I was writing a chapter this weekend, the convergence of the scene really prompted me to accelerate to the ending. It felt like the pacing, the build-up, was finally coming

Had to write the Epilogue for Deep Magic yesterday. We managed to raise close to $1000 in less than 10 days, but it just wasn’t enough. I looked at our downloads and we had nearly 500 in the first week. That is very good, so it’s not that the message

It’s the first of June and I feel like it’s the end of an era. We announced that we will probably shut down Deep Magic in our June issue. This e-zine has been a labor of love for over 4 years now. I have learned so much about the publishing

I have been kicking around for the better part of a year the thought of writing a fantasy novel targeted for the YA market. Maybe it was seeing Chris Paolini’s success with Eragon or also my love of the Harry Potter novels. My own first brush with the genre started

Caspar David Friedrich was a Germany romantic painter from the 19th century. In high school, I had a paperback copy of Bram Stoker’s Dracula and it featured one of Friedrich’s famous paintings on the cover (Man and Woman Contemplating the Moon). I’ve always loved that book, and the painting has

How does one start a blog? I don’t know the answer to that, so I’ll just start here, at the beginning. I’m testing out this blog software (WordPress) and just created my first page, the ‘About’ page to talk about IDUMEA and what it means. I don’t know how often