Category: writing

• Odd Rituals & Excuses for Self-Love

  

  Odd Rituals & Excuses for Self-Love I always found February to be a strange month. Lunar new year, the sports-bowl show, presidents day, and a weird little twenty-four hours where everything is literally some shade of pink, purple, or red. Proudly proclaiming, at least in the western part of the world, that love rules for…

• SEO & Book Titles

  

  SEO & Book Titles SEO → search engine optimization. Some days I wish I didn’t know anything about this, but as a self-pub it is something you have to be aware of, at least on a surface level. Last year was the year of figuring out how to do that. I’ve been fixing a lot…

• Copaganda & Spoilers

  

  If you know any Gen X folks, or you are one, you might know that we grew up in a time when the PR machine for police was at an all time high. If you don’t believe me, check out The Marshall Project. One of the best sources for digging into the history and machine…

• “GAY SEX” does not exist

  

  “GAY SEX” does not exist One bone I have to pick is the idea that there is “gay sex” when it’s all just SEX with people and various body parts either inserting or rubbing them on one another. Say it with me – IT’S SEX! It’s naturalIt’s chemical (let’s do it)It’s logicalHabitual (can we do…

• Identity Journey

  

  Identity Journey In an odd way, finding your readers and discovering what genre you write is a tiny bit like trying to figure out your sexual and/or gender identity. Some authors, if they are lucky enough to win the query-agent-publisher lottery, have a lot of help in this department. However, some of that luck is…

• Influences & Continuity

  

  Influences & Continuity Interesting things about influences, you never quite know where things come from until they show up. Some of my biggest influences to my writing came much later in life, when I read Ursula K Le Guin, and Octavia Butler. However, Jacqueline Carey had a massive influence on me as well. What they…

• Mythical Desires Universe Primer

  A Mythical Desires Universe Primer The MDU (get it – I’m a comic book geek what can I say?) is a multi-species fantasy universe where our myths and legends are real and thriving in the present day. Shifters of all kinds. Dragons. Vampires. Mages. Witches. Sentient familiars. They all exist in the open and magic…

• What My Books Are About

  

  What My Books Are About After five books in the Mythical Desires Universe, I’ve realize that I write a certain kind of book. My books aren’t going to be popular with everyone, and that’s okay. I’m only trying to please myself after all. I don’t have the pressure of being a traditionally published author that…

• The Jesus Phoenix Hypothesis

  

  The Jesus Phoenix Hypothesis In worldbuilding sometimes you use what you have around you to help with the heavy lifting borrowing from myths and legends and building on those. Maybe even twist them a bit to suit your purposes. For my Mythical Desires Universe, I not only borrow from secular myths and legends, I borrow…

• Monster Smells & Other Thoughts

  

  Monster Smells & Other Thoughts Ever think about how something or someone smells? Or how a monster takes in their environment? Well, if you’ve read The Saint George Chronicles smells are a HUGE thing for Xavior. He picks up on emotions and other information. For dragons in my universe, it’s one of the ways they…