Posts that highlight rising star authors or well established authors and their most recent book projects.
Rising Star Authors in 2019 I’m starting 2019 with a new approach to my blog. I’ll be featuring other authors once or twice a month and then offering a package giveaway of their paperbacks the week or two following the...
UpJourney just posted an article featuring me, myself, and I as one of 20 expert storytellers explaining the secrets of their craft. Check it out and let me know in the comments below which advice seemed most helpful to...
The brass at Wattpad.com invited me to approach their editors to have Moon 514 considered as one of their featured science fiction novels. Soon afterwards, they informed me that they had read Moon 514 and that they were excited to have...
Once again, acclaimed author Jaime Buckley redesigned the always entertaining WantedHero.com … you should check it out. Really. This isn’t a legitimate blog post. It’s a shout out. That’s it. Get movin’! Click on the picture to learn more...
I just finished reading the first volume of Game of Thrones. I know – I’m really behind the times here – but to be fair, most Game of Thrones fans haven’t read the books either … and it isn’t too...
At long last, 5 Blades: Riveting Realms of Adventure is about ready for publication launch – and here is our sweet cover! I’ll be featured alongside veteran sci-fi fantasy authors Jaime Buckley, David West, Jason King, and Lewis...
Drew hangs out with all-time bestselling authors on a YA recommended reading list. Okay, it’s not a Hugo Award and it didn’t land me on Oprah but sometimes a relevant People’s Choice Award is even better. After recently being voted a Top...
Charles Schulz has to rank among the very few comic strip authors who are both humorous and philosophical, pragmatic and ridiculous. As a kid, I related to Charlie Brown much like many other kids my age: he was struggling to...
I’ll keep it short and sweet: today, SciFi Fantasy Freak recognized me as one of their top 5 authors. Check out their tweet below and then check out some of my story excerpts to tell me if you agree! ...
Gollum may well be the most interesting non-protagonist character ever developed but I have to wonder who is more to blame for that fact in light of the recent LOTR franchise? There is a strong argument that Peter Jackson may...
I confess: until today, I’d never read anything by H.P. Lovecraft. Frankly, the “horror” label combined with its awful, original illustrations have kept me at bay for many years. However, at FantasyCon 2014, his name popped up so many times...
Today’s inspiration comes from Goethe and deservedly ranks as one of the best inspirational quotes of all time. It is so well stated that I have little to add to it today: Until one is committed, there is hesitancy, the chance to...
Every once in a while, a great storyteller comes up with a fresh approach to a character. As I think back to some of the most refreshing and unique characters I’ve read about or watched onscreen, one character really...
I woke up grumpy today so today’s authorial inspiration comes from H.P. Lovecraft, one of the great masters of scary fiction: The oldest and strongest emotion of mankind is fear, and the oldest and strongest kind of fear is fear...
I perform nearly every year at the Timpanogos Storytelling Festival in Orem, Utah. While everyone has their favorite teller for various reasons (comedic, historical, lovable, liar-able, etc.), I have yet to find a young child who didn’t love Willy Claflin...
Another piece of prose from Orson Scott Card’s Seventh Son: Although the Seventh Son did not rank among one of my favorite books of all time, there were several places in the book where his really down to earth, organic,...
In modern film, we usually find very bland, direct slams and insults. Occasionally, a marginally subtle and humorous attack is aimed towards a dense character who fails to understand the biting remark but rare are the times when ad hominem...
Years ago, I began a lifelong juggling addiction (although I’m too stubborn to join any 12 step program to help me stop). In 2000 or perhaps a little earlier, I began to tell stories while juggling. To my knowledge, I’m...
I’ve heard my fair share of lawyer jokes in my life. Most of the time, I don’t think they are very funny because they either demonstrate a failure to understand the legal system or more likely … they demonstrate a...
“You talk so sweet I bet you have to suck on salt for half and hour to get the taste of sugar out of your mouth.” In “Seventh Son,” there are several places where dialogue typical of the eighteenth/nineteenth century...
Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered weak and weary, Over many a quaint and curious volume of forgotten lore, While I nodded, nearly napping, suddenly there came a tapping, As of some one gently rapping, rapping at my...
“When you make one basket, it can never be more than one basket. But when you say words. They can be repeated over and over, and fill men’s hearts a thousand miles from where you first spoke them. Words can...