Wyrmblood

  With mere hours to 2025, I quickly threw together my annual Year in Review. Featured in 25 anthological publications (one of which was a supplemental edition of my story 'The Harvest Wheel') and my first published novel 'A Man Called Boy'. It's been a another crazy and dramatic year and I spent most of it writing, redrafting, and re-reading earlier stories to craft their sequels. Flash fiction, short stories, novelettes, novellas, and novels. Fantasy, Science Fiction, Horror, Steampunk, overlapping into a couple other genres and each other. When the dust settles from some life changing events promising to kick off the next year, I hope to put out more. My novel 'The Sky is Made of Stone' should be out next year and work has already begun on a sequel to 'A Man Called Boy'. Thank you to the publications that accepted and published my work this year: Cloaked Press, Dragon Soul Press, Iron Faeries Publishing, World Stone Publishing, Parsec Magazine, St...

  Being a discovery writer (not a plotter) is such a weird thing, I don't think I'll ever get used to. It's also something that's almost impossible to give advice about.  There's an anthology I really want to be a part of so this morning I started writing a short story. The theme was Christmas horror. That's it. I couldn't think of anything. I was fairly confident I had nothing in the tank for this. But I decided to roll the dice and trust myself, so I opened a new document and started typing a name. Then just started casually talking about him as an opening paragraph, hoping that like push-starting an old car, the engine would just turn over and kick into gear and a story would magically happen, even though I had nothing. Nothing. Next thing I know, (long meal breaks not withstanding) I'm 3.5k words in and I'm so intrigued by this tale, that I kind of want to stop, go lie down and watch to see how this film ends. But the only way I'm going to fi...