Conceits in literature
What is a conceit? I read that word ‘conceit’ while researching other worldbuilding books about worldbuilding for my upcoming new Worldbuilding Wizardry Workbook titled The Cosmic Kitchen: A Worldbuilding Wizardry Workbook […]
Author history & you
Author history & you (and me) I’m what we call a Native Texan. Texans are proud of the fact that they were born in Texas, live in Texas, and are […]
Researching vat material
As you know, my research go-to source is Claude.ai. Here’s what I asked him this morning… “I need the type of material that would make giant see-through vats where my […]
Gwendolyn, Goddess of love, women, & night
This is the Claude.ai rendition of the Goddess Gwendolyn. Not exactly how I’d picture it, but anything more complicated wigged old Claude out. Constellations and lore are very big components in The Winged […]
Sat Oct 4 Daily
Good Saturday morning! Did some good work yesterday, both with Claude, my AI buddy, using his analysis of some of my chapters and my wonky outline (in school, I was […]
Some history of the berbers
A lot of my desert-dwelling cultures in THE WINGED WARRIOR are based on our own Earth cultures as a base, most notably the Berbers. According to Wikipedia, Berbers, or the Berber […]
DFW Writers Conference
DFW Writers Conference Oct 4-5, 2025 Hurst Conference Center 1601 Campus Dr Hurst, Texas 76054 More than 300 attendees, 90+ classes, panels and workshops, 13 agents and editors, and a […]
Finding my story video
The great folks at Markee Books make me sound smart! LOL. They took snippets of a longer interview I did with them and set smaller sections to specific topics. This […]
Red’s Bar
Red’s Bar You’ve no doubt seen the section on my landing page to sign up to be a member of my “Street Team” where you can read the early copy […]
Congratulations Darlene Oakley!
Canadian author and good friend Darlene Oakley‘s first book in the Inner Sanctum series, Remnant, was awarded the Best in Science Fiction & Fantasy — Dystopian category in the 2025 […]
