A couple of weeks ago I penned the last sentence in the True Born Trilogy. Now that I’ve finished a draft of the third novel (whose title I’m not sure I’m at liberty to tell you yet – but book two, True North, is slated for release in April 2017) I feel like I’ve really … Continue reading
TONIGHT! 7:30 PM EST – ANYTHING CAN HAPPEN WHEN YOU CAN ASK ME ANYTHING! What can nanotechnology do in the human body? How many hours did it take for me to write True Born? Can Canadians get away with writing genre fiction? What’s my favourite yoga pose? Is it just me or does William Shatner run the world? … Continue reading
I’m the kind of writer who leaves a lot to chance. When I sit down to write a novel I think I have it all worked out from beginning to end – typically in the boldest strokes possible. If it helps, imagine a big thick highway divider. On the other side of that divider? A … Continue reading
The incredible Wattpad fans of True Born have been asking: When is the rest of this book coming out? When do we get to read more? I’ve replied that True Born is now under consideration by various presses. Hopefully I’ll have some news soon. I admit, though, I’m not sure these avid readers know what … Continue reading
Writing time can be as complex as a faerie riddle. I wrote a novel about fairies. The heroine Gigi is a sixteen year-old with a little faerie problem. Make that a big faerie problem. The other problem she faces is time. Time is a constant struggle in writing. Time changes everything: the fluidity of your … Continue reading
Truth be told, narrators pretty much determine the success of any novel. Good narrators will leave you spellbound to the worlds they weave. Poorly realized narrators, on the other hand, are like bad dates…regret, regret, regret. First person narrators have become the style of choice in the past twenty years or so. That’s because the … Continue reading
Describing what it felt like to stand on the lip of the ocean at sunset. Easy, right? You could probably go on for pages and pages. But what if you’re wrestling with a werewolf detective before the local vampire clan attacks? What if the assassin hired by Zob is about to level your building with … Continue reading
You dream of mermaids in a world of gilt jellyfish, girls who drop flowers and gemstones when they speak, men who battle monsters to rescue girls they have only seen in paintings. The world of your imagination is so beautiful, so luminous, it defies description. So why is it so hard to make it real … Continue reading
The most compelling part of any story – even more so than a good plot – is character. While plot can be imagined as the track by which a story moves from a to z, character is the engine of a story that takes the reader over every dip and bend and turn of the … Continue reading
