When I first started this website, I just wanted a place to share information about my writing and have a few links to my books. I didn’t really like the idea of blogging. I didn’t read any blogs and considered them a vast wasteland of frivolous musings. If I wanted to read something “real” I’d …
Time travel is one of those elusive treasures that is hard to get right in fiction, but when it works it can be amazing. But every book you have ever read is really a time travel book if you think about it. Because you are reading what someone thought in the past. Sometimes that person …
Off on another adventure, in other words, a new writing project! Exploring worlds, meeting new characters. Just another day in the life of a writer.
Today is the 62nd anniversary of the publishing of The Lord of the Rings, J.R.R. Tolkien’s fantasy classic. The first installment of this trilogy, The Fellowship of the Ring, was published on July 29th, 1954. To celebrate this occasion, as well as to culminate the end of the 2016 Silmarillion Awards, myself, along with the hosts of the …
No one hears the brush of bare feet as a diminutive figure shuffles in from stage right. His eyes are two sunny side eggs on a skillet face as he takes in the menagerie of heroes and villains, lords and ladies assembled amidst the great Gondorian amphitheater. The vast auditorium itself, draped with banners and …
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Well, I may not have made it to Realm Makers this year, or any other writing conference for that matter, but for the second year in a row, the Edwardson family made the trek to Orlando, Florida for Dicetower Con. And what a delight it was! If you haven’t been before the best way I …
The bags hit the floor. A deep sigh. A plop into the comfy chair. These are sure signs that I am back from a long vacation. And this one was longer than any in recent memory. I was on the road for nearly three weeks. It was a time to rest. A time to reflect. And …
The time to vote for the 2016 Silmarillion Awards is finally here! The nominations are in and five finalists have been chosen for each category. On my site, I’ve been hosting the Most Faith Friend award so I am proud to announce the 2016 finalists. The 2016 nominees for the Most Faithful Friend are: Inigo …
