The early days of fantasy: Some time in my preteens, I came across fantasy books. Terry Brooks, J. R. R. Tolkien, C. S. Lewis, Ursula K. Le Guin, Edgar Rice Burroughs, Peter S. Beagle, and Anne McCaffrey. My world took on an entirely new look. “What if?” became my favorite question. But that doesn’t explain…
I am about to embark on writing the fifth book of the Standing Stones series. My daughter reminds me regularly this is the series that writes itself. It is an apt reminder. It started with a friend wanting me to write a guest post for her blog. She gave me a set of possible topics,…
I thought an update was do. I’ve been writing, editing, redrafting, planning, and preparing paperbacks. This won’t be a long post, more of a list of what is in the works. The fourth book in the Solstice Dragon World, To Harbor a Dragon, is now up as a pre-order set to upload at the end…
Do you spend a lot of time on social media? Hmm. Not like I used to. In the past I gave a lot of time to Twitter and Google+ (made a lovely friend and joined a wonderful group). I have an account with Pinterest and Goodreads as well, but I visit rarely. I’ve since narrowed…
My favorite character? When I starting thinking about my answer to this question, I knew immediately who I would name and had a pretty good idea why I was choosing him. But the more I thought about it, I realized there was a secondary character that was a strong favorite of mine, so I have…
If your next book was not science fiction or fantasy what genre would it be? I’m a bit split on which it would be. I write quite a bit of poetry. I have the beginnings of a series of selections all based on pieces of heirloom china I have received from various family over the…
When is the next Standing Stone Book coming out and what is it about? Book 2 in the Standing Stone series is in redraft right now and will be ready for the editing process very soon. I expect to have it uploaded to Amazon and my wide distributor Smashwords by the first of June. Jahl…
Inspiration comes in many ways. I think it has been at least two years since my writer friend Marcy Peska offered to let me guest post on her blog. She gave me a set of possible topics which I perused but didn’t feel any rise to write anything. But a few days later, I decided…
