Sep 20, 2014 | My Publications, Writing
I was reading the other day a fascinating post, Killing the Mary-Sue, by Chiyome. As I am currently debating killing a character or two in my WIP, the fourth book of my epic fantasy series Pearseus, her musings made me wonder about the role death plays in our works....
Sep 14, 2014 | Entertainment, Random Musings
As you know, I just came back from holidays and had over 1,000 emails to sort through. We had booked a nice place by the sea, which advertised free wi fi on all premises. As you have gathered from this blog post –and from the impressive amount of emails that piled...
Sep 9, 2014 | Entertainment
Today was not a good day for writing. I woke up early, as usual, to do some writing, but a myriad of things required my attention, breaking my concentration. Before I knew it, the day had begun and an unprecedented number of clients called up, interrupting me every...
Sep 2, 2014 | My Publications
People ran around her, shouting and screaming. Sol could not move under the weight of the guard and raised her head to seek her brother. As she did, a second arrow passed so close to her eye that its feathers scratched her eyebrow. Blood flowed from the wound,...
Aug 20, 2014 | My Publications
In case you’ve missed the huge sale banner on my blog (and it’s okay if you have, I, too, filter out banners and such most of the time), here’s the deal: Between the 20th and 27th, all of my books will be only 99c! As I’ve kept the book prices...
Aug 17, 2014 | Marketing, Publishing
A month ago, I published Mad Water, the third book in my epic fantasy series Pearseus. I had announced the imminent publication on social media and to my friends. A lot of them asked me if they could pre-order the book. “I’m afraid Amazon doesn’t...
Aug 14, 2014 | Entertainment
I hope you’ll excuse me for disappearing for the past few days. My holidays have started, and until the 25th I will not be spending all my waking hours in front of two monitors. Instead, I’ll go to the beach, visit friends, throw BBQs and enjoy life...
Aug 9, 2014 | Random Musings
Have you noticed how we never get bored any more? We always multitask, rarely doing just the one thing. Last week I came across a number of articles about boredom and how useful – and highly unusual, nowadays – it is. I guess that is because of the summer. People...
Jul 19, 2014 | My Publications
Now that Mad Water, book 3 in my epic fantasy series Pearseus has been released, I thought I’d offer the first three books in the series as a bundle. It took me all day to design the cover and prepare the files, but here it is: The Pearseus bundle (books 1-3) is...