The Red Citadel — A Review

At first, this book excited me. It features an old wizard, Finster, with a tongue trying to survive in a world of violence, betrayal and grimdark. Watching Finster whip out quip after quip entertaining at first. And then the book just got... meh. Finster, an aging wizard skilled in inanimate animation and bearing one too …

Weekly Writing Progress 7/8/19 – Sin Magic

This past week, I spent most of my time outlining my novel. I realize now that there is a lot that goes into a novel, especially a fantasy novel. You have to build a world from scratch, which isn't so easy to do. But more importantly, you need to tell a compelling story with awesome …

Weekly Writing Progress 7/1/19

This past week, I managed about 5k words spread over over two short stories. With the completion of these two stories, my Witch House stories are finally complete. I plan on writing more stories set in this universe soon, but my initial vision for a series of horror stories set in a world similar to …

The Worms of Heaven — A Review

If there's one thing Misha Burnett can pull off extremely well, it's the beginnings of his novels. Every novel in his Book of Lost Doors series so far dives right into the action. No boring exposition or "previously on". Perhaps that, more than anything else, kept me reading. It's been about a year since the …

Legionnaire (Galaxy’s Edge 1) — A Review

Legionnaire is the first book in Jason Anspach & Nick Cole's sci-fi smash hit series. This series was billed as "Star Wars but not Star Wars".  Now while they may have taken their cue from Star Wars, this is something different. At least the first book is. This is straight up military sci-fi. And a …