New cover art for The Castes and the OutCastes

A couple of weeks ago, a kind reader sent me a picture of their rescue cat. They named her Aia, and I did a happy dance. Here she is in all her ferocious adorableness:

I’ve discussed writing and music with many other authors, including Jacob Cooper and Jonathan Renshaw, both of whom have a background in music. All of us have our own approaches to external stimuli when writing, but for me, I have to have music when I write. It’s like it fires up my mind and gets my imagination…

Here is the rough draft beginning to my next series. It’s a story I’ve written four times before, and each draft was a complete rewrite and a complete failure. This time I have a stronger sense of what works and doesn’t and a much more interesting supporting cast and setting. Winter 1986 Manifold Fulsom tasted…

I’ve got a firmish release date for A Warrior’s Penance, book 3 of The Castes and the OutCastes, so I have it available for pre-order on Amazon. Here’s the link. I’m also doing a omnibus ebook edition. I can’t do a print omnibus, though, since the entire series is over 1600 pages long.