Welcome back to the series on villains. We're going through the list of villain motifs. These are ones that I have observed, and I would like to take the time to explore them, define them, and give examples of the craft. This episode is on Pure Evil villains, as well as Tragic villains. I'm doing th…
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Villains and Antagonists: Defining a Villain
In this series, we're going to be discussing villains and antagonists (as the title says). I wasn't going to do this, I wasn't planning it. I was going to wait a bit and start on 10 Fun Facts as they pertained to upcoming Free Time, maybe do a few about Time to Kill since audiobook production is a…
Shaking Things Up
A new year, a new way of doing things. As an expansion of my advertising and marketing, I am turning my blog posts into videos. Nothing will change here, but if you head over to BitChute, you can find silly animations and such to go with them. I'm not doing any back-animation, just the ones going…
Writing Historical Fiction: Mistakes (Redo)
There is little worse in the world for an author than to spend months or years laboring over a work of art, going line-by-line, removing every fleck of metaphorical dust, giving everything the white glove inspection, only for some douchebag on some no-account forum somewhere to point out a mistake i…
Writing Historical Fiction: What (Redo)
Again I apologize for my terrible, distracted writing from before, so here is the redo for WHF: What. Seeing how it is New Year's Eve, I decided that this would be an excellent launching point for the (new) piece.
The "what" of your historical fiction piece refers to what your character or cha…
Writing Historical Fiction: Mistakes
Now we get to the part of the WHF series no one likes to admit: mistakes. No matter how thorough you research, no matter how many times you go back and assure yourself that all the dates, all the names, all the details are right, sometimes you get the final product and discover a glaring error. Yo…
More New Things
Minor announcement that there is a new blog on the Timekeeper website.
The difference between the author blog and the TC blog is that the TC is for fun stuff. For example, the first series going up is going to be on the Borelian language starting most likely after the new year. Fun stuff, and n…
Announcement of Impending Changes
I don't get on Facebook normally. I don't get on my personal account, and I pretty much only get on my Author page when I have something to announce. So I totally understand when people don't know what's going on with me, and I understand that I probably miss a lot of things going on with other pe…
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The Backstory
So, if you've been to
Writing Historical Fiction: What
In this installment, we're going to discuss the what of historical fiction.
By this time, you have decided who your main character or characters are, their sphere of influence and other people they are likely to encounter. You have decided the when and where, and you should have done some rese…
New Addition to the Family!
The family of publishing and book formats, that is.
If you were paying attention to the Facebook page, then you may have seen the poll asking for your opinion on sound effects in audiobooks. In a stunning landslide, 5:2, you voted for sound effects. To be fair, seven is hardly a fair sample num…
Writing Historical Fiction: Who
In this installment of WHF, we're going to discuss people, characters and historical figures.
Your first instinct might be to include as many famous historical figures as possible. Civil War? Not without Honest Abe. World War II? Need me some Churchill and Eisenhower, right? Not necessarily.…
Writing Historical Fiction: When and Where
In this first developmental installment of WHF, I'm going to cover the when and where aspect of writing historical fiction. In elementary school, you probably learned that this was the "setting" of the story. In the real world, there is so much more to it.
When considering historical fiction,…
Why Star Trek's No Drama Policy Wasn't As Bad As You Think
So the other day, Adam and I were watching Star Trek on TV (Deep Space Nine and Voyager) and I remembered something about the earlier Star Trek shows that few are probably consciously aware of.
From the beginning, Gene Roddenberry decreed that ST was not allowed to have conflict between cha…
Cloth Books Retiring
Before you get all bent out of shape, know that it's not as bad as it sounds (except for purists, maybe, but I have no control over this).
So I got an email from my printer today saying that blue and gray cloth is being retired and replaced with digital prints. What does this mean? Well, if you…
Famous Coups, Part 4: England
The last (or second to last, possibly) coup that we're going to cover, is the infamous Gunpowder Plot. Not familiar with it? Well, is this familiar to you?
Remember, remember, the 5th of November
The Gunpowder Treason and Plot;
I know of no reason why Gunpowder Treason
Should ever be forgo…
Pre-Orders and Announcements
Good news, all, pre-orders for Stopwatch are now available! Yay! You can order them from Amazon or Barnes and Noble.
And for those of you who have been paying some semblance of attention, you may have guessed that there may be more awesome things coming down the pipe. More than just books …
Famous Coups, Part 3: Ancient Israel
Time to go back, way, waaaaay back, to what may be the oldest verifiable coup in history, from the Israelites.
The account is briefly recorded in 1 Kings, Chapter 16.
Elah Reigns in Israel
8 In the twenty-sixth year of Asa king of Judah, Elah the son of Baasha began to reign over Israel in…
Famous Coups, Part 2: Serbia
Continuing the series on famous coups in history, let's look at one which may have actually contributed to the start of World War I.
Serbia gained its independence from the Ottoman Empire in the Serbian Revolution, beginning in 1804 with bloody clashes that would last more than a decade until a c…
Ellis Island When?
SPOILERS AHEAD: PROCEED WITH CAUTION
So, in reading Windup, if you are any kind of history buff or just a Google guru, you will know that Ellis Island did not open until 1892. Walter arrived in America decades before, yet he still tells Tommen that he came through Ellis Island.
Some might poin…
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