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I had toyed with the idea of doing some side-character interviews during the debut month of THE PURIST, and I still might. But today’s offering is an old, mad, bit of fanfiction that spawned out of my on-and-off-fanfiction obsessions from 1991 to present. As I say in the disclaimer, through what I’ve seen from far…

Read More Meta fiction! Character studies! Cheesy writing!

Thank you to all the people who have purchased THE PURIST directly from NineStar Press, or from Kobo, Smashwords, and all the other non-Amazon platforms. Yeah, sure, you can buy it on Amazon, too. But if you do want to read this book, please consider buying directly. It helps my publisher and helps me! I…

Read More The Purist mini blurb

For the (very few) readers who haven’t run screaming from this page already, here’s a link to a new glossary of people, places, and things from my Lonhra Sequence books and short stories. I don’t include much pronunciation for these entries (maybe later). You can, if you squint hard enough, see a couple of overlaps…

Read More A Lonhraverse Glossary

When I finally settle on another online store, this reworked piece is probably going up for sale. ‘Enamel Flame Pendant’ is a 17.75″ tiger-eye and green aventurine necklace with an elaborately cast .925 sterling silver hook clasp, .925 Balinese sterling silver accent beads, and an original .925 sterling silver jointed pendant by yours truly, circa…

Read More Enamel Flame Pendant (reboot)

It’s Thursday 2 August 2018, and that means we’re getting closer to The Purist being available for general purchase from www.ninestarpress.com and other vendors. To celebrate (and calm my nerves a bit), I’m setting up a giveaway on this blog. What is this book? Learn more here. Rules are simple: From today until 3 September…

Read More The Purist Launch Party and Giveaway

(Because usually I have the opposite problem, clocking in SFF tomes of 130K to 160K, which must all be pruned.) Anyway, I’m glad the reader liked the book. I was a little puzzled at first, when they mentioned, “The book is too short” And I fired off a generalized funny tweet about it. Dear reader,…

Read More Dear reader, I’m sorry my book was too short