Writing

“As The Shore To The Tides, So Blood Calls To Blood” Is Now Live

My story is now available to read at Beneath Ceaseless Skies. This is my longest works and one of my more complex ones, which I'm very proud to share with everyone. I tried to make this story about brothers, blood magic and bad blood resonate with familiar stories, but weird enough that it feels new. I'd be honored if you gave the story a read. ...

2020: Year of the Novel?

On the eve of going on vacation, I've been thinking about what I should do next in terms of my writing, and have decided I'm going to go ahead and work on a novel in 2020. When I went to Futurescapes in 2018, I had an idea for a YA novel. Its setting begins in a fantastical version of Mexico City and ends up in the Mayan land of the dead. The characters are still there, waiting for me to give them voice, and I resolve to push past my wariness to start working on the book. I'm resolving to start with no more than 250 words a day, starting when I return from Puerto Rico and want to try to write for at least 5 days a week. I've never tried to write a novel, always concentrating on writing shorter fiction, but I'm going to try. Maybe it'll stop short...