Trade paperback version of A Warrior’s Knowledge now available

I’ve leveled an entire city. I’ve destroyed a close-knit families, and I’ve even killed a character who I loved. She spoke to me once and said, “I don’t like him (Rukh).” She changed the entire trajectory of The Castes and the OutCastes and became a far more important character than I intended. But nothing has…

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.

I wrote that series for my sons. Both of them were in their early-to-mid teenage years when book one was published, and at that time, there weren’t many (still aren’t) new books that featured young men as the protagonist, and certainly even less that featured those who might be Asian Indians. That was the genesis…

What a gut kick to learn that she’s passed away. Her books were so influential in the entire fantasy landscape, and I wish more people knew about her books, especially the Paradys novels and the Tales from the Flat Earth. She could write creepy mood and evocative setting like no one else and incorporate horrific…

I wonder about that a lot myself. At some point, I stopped fighting the charisma and influence of Rukh and Jessira and just let them do what they want. Of course, one of things they decided was that they’d forgotten their truths and somehow resented one another to the point of near-hatred. I didn’t like…