Tolkien in the age of political correctness

I was honored to be interviewed by the guys of Keystroke Medium, Josh Hayes and Scott Moon, for their weekly podcast. Here’s the link.

That writing contest I mentioned for A Warrior’s Path…right now I’m in second place! In NASCAR terms, that would mean I’m the first loser, but this ain’t NASCAR. I’ll take second. I’m about 80-90 votes behind first place, so if anyone hasn’t voted, please do so. Here’s the link: http://bookbzz.com/prize-writer-fantasy-fiction-vote/  

Five heavily edited drafts later, the first 1/3 of A Warrior’s Penance is off to the beta readers. Finally! For various reasons, this has been a remarkably difficult section for me to write, and at this point, I simply don’t have perspective anymore to figure out the flaws. Here’s a figurative toast to the beta…

Here’s a recent radio interview I did about my writing career. It sounds weird calling it a writing career, but I talk about The Castes and the OutCastes and my newest book, William Wilde and the Necrosed. It’s a YA fantasy that’s kind of a mix between Stranger Things and Percy Jackson. Anyway, here’s the interview.

It’s been awhile since I’ve read LotR, but every time I have, whenever I come to the part with Tom Bombadil, I just grind my teeth about how worthless he is. His stupid songs and his stupid skipping through the forest were a chore. I just never considered him in this light. It’s much more…

  I’m very happy to announce that the audiobook for A Warrior’s Knowledge, book 2 of The Castes of the OutCastes, is now available through Audible.com and Amazon.com. And once more, Nick Podehl did an outstanding job on the narration.