The Song of the Ash Tree

So close!

June 17, 2015

If you’re looking for my Kickstarter, go here! The campaign is at 92%. Thank you to all who have already pledged! And thanks in advance to those who wipe out the remaining 8%!

I finished. In the past hour, I wrapped up my manuscript for Book Three. It’s pretty surreal. I stopped typing and wondered if that was actually the end–even though I knew it was. The voice inside my head was literally saying, “Is that it? Is it? Is it, really? Really?” This is an awfully subdued … More So that happened.

My Own Private Midgard

May 1, 2015

For about 200,000 words, I thought I knew what I was doing. In regards to the landscape, that is. My books take place in Norway, or at least a mythic version of Norway. Perhaps in my books the sky is a little bigger, a little bluer, the mountains taller, the fjords deeper. The earth, or … More My Own Private Midgard

In Which I Do Not Tell You What My Main Character Looks Like

April 22, 2015

This is my series hero, Raef Skallagrim.

What’s that? You don’t see anything? … More In Which I Do Not Tell You What My Main Character Looks Like

The Greylockian List of Music for Writing

April 14, 2015

I didn’t used to write while listening to music. In fact, while writing the first draft of the first book of The Song of the Ash Tree, I was so terrified that I’d quit and the story would drift into the vast limbo of unfinished stories, that I was very strict about my writing routine and … More The Greylockian List of Music for Writing