The Literary Mercenary

One of the most frustrating things about being a professional author is trying to explain to people just how difficult it is to wring blood ...

If you've ever watched a fight scene in a movie, or even read one in a comic book, you have an intrinsic understanding of the idea behin...

As most folks know, I tend to have a lot of irons in the fire at any given time. And while my latest novel Painted Cats just dropped, the n...

If you've read most modern fantasy, you're familiar with the Masquerade. It is, in short, the idea that the vampires, werewolves, fe...

Last year my novel Marked Territory  dropped to a little bit of fanfare among my regular readers. The book followed my protagonist, a Maine ...

We've all seen this story before. It's the young idealist versus the Evil Empire in their snappy uniforms and insidious weapons of m...

Being an author is a lot like playing the lottery. I've said that before, and generally it means I'm referring to what happens with ...