I am so happy to show off the new cover artwork for my next novel Waterbearer! It is an absolutely gorgeous piece, and the cover design laid atop the artwork is equally amazing. The work above comes from both my amazing cover artist Martina Fichera, and crack graphic designer Erica Evans.
You can learn more here, including seeing the full size unvarnished artwork straight from my cover artist!
Waterbearer will be out October 31st, 2024!
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While I finished writing “Waterbearer” several months ago, I was pretty certain it would be easier to handle than my novels in the past. I learned a ton from the release of First Word, and so I was right. It was amazingly easier to get my shit together, and make the release come together too.
That was until it threw a brick at my head (I dodged), because I just HAD to try to make the novel more authentic. Putting in some minor Spanish translation work added a tremendous amount of f...
Finally, after years of being a huge nerd, writing books, and swearing one day I was going to sell my delusional thoughts, I have now stood up my own webstore to offer, at this point, personalized hardcover copies of my novels. Soon I hope to add paperbacks, and signed custom prints of artwork that i have worked with artists to produce in relation to my novels.
So, if anyone wants a really nicely customized copy of one of my novels, they are now available!
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...Putting together the finished product for “Waterbearer” is killing me. I’m not sorry that I had the spanish translations added, but the amount of work I am having to do to actually implement in page translations across all of the printed copies is some of the most mind numbing monotony that I have ever encountered in my life.
I feel like watching mold grow would be a serious step up from this mess! Still everything is slowly grinding closer to completion. Cover is in progr...
A couple of months ago I finished writing the first novel in a new series called Here, There Be Monsters. The book is titled “Waterbearer” and at this point it is near to being ready for publishing.
My editor has tactically nuked all of my awful grammar.
My cover artist is getting the nod to go to work on the cover this week.
A translator has gone through it to add some bits and pieces to give one of the main characters a far more authentic feel.
Once I...
So, about a month ago I started working on a top secret project. I frankly have no idea if it is ever going to come to fruition which is why it’s going to remain top secret until I reach a certain level of confidence about it.
I will say I am working with an artist on it, and I won’t say more than that, yet. Still it is slowly progressing forward, and I hope that I can drop more about the project soon because frankly I’m outrageously excited about it. Since I’m working wi...