Free Book Drive: The Terminarch Plot

I’m doing one of those free book drives.  I’ve signed up on several free book blast websites, been promoting on Twitter and hopefully I’ll get my book in the hands of some more potential fans of the series. So far, the reviews are pretty good: Took me longer than I’d prefer due to NaNoWriMo but

Character Death Should Be Premeditated

I’m a big fan of fiction and screenplays that kill off major characters mid-stream.  It happened in Breaking Bad.  It happens all the time in The Walking Dead.  The problem is that an amateur writer will kill off characters for the sake of killing them off or for shock value without thinking through the character death and

New Podcast Up: NaNoWriMo and Adaptations

On the latest podcast, Ryan and I discuss NaNoWriMo, our experience with it, some advice to those attempting it this year, and the things you need to know before starting on such a complicated endeavor.  We also discuss our favorite book adaptations and some that are not our favorites at all. Shame on you, Hollywood.

3 Tips for Writing a Good Action Scene

As the first book of This Broken Earth, The U.S. of After draws to a close, my heroes find themselves in the middle of a struggle to survive as a militia warlord bears down on them for one last attempt to wipe them off the face of the broken earth.  There are many factors at play in