• Wednesday Wanderings

    Wednesday Wanderings

    Happy Boxing Day, (belated) Merry Christmas, Happy Holidays, Wonderful Winter Solstice … whatever you choose to celebrate or ignore, I wish it all to you with a homemade candied cherry on top.  I’ve been almost radio silence on this blog for mos…

  • Silk Betrayal character: Jasfer

    Silk Betrayal character: Jasfer

    The third principal character I’d like to introduce is Prince Jasfer Talai, one of the Thirty Princes who rule the valley. That makes him one of the thirty most powerful people in the entire known world…but that responsibility rests light on him—for …

  • Not a Prologue

    Not a Prologue

    When I began writing seriously, I was a prologue skeptic. Too many fantasy novels I’d read or browsed in the bookstore/library had unnecessary prologues, often prologues with a poorly written poem-cum-prophecy or with a dump of worldbuilding informatio…

  • Blockchain without Bitcoin? No.

    Blockchain without Bitcoin? No.

    I’ve lost count of the number of headlines and interviews in the last year which lay out the case that Bitcoin may well be a bust, but “blockchain technology” will still transform the world. Here is a representative Forbes headline (but I am certain you’ve seen plenty yourself if you read financial headlines or…

  • Silk Betrayal: cover art

    Silk Betrayal: cover art

    Another break from my long-windedness today to simply admire the cover art of the novel. We went through a variety of suggestions for the cover. Usually I’m a fan of a more landscape-focused cover, and we went through a few possibilities in that vein, …

  • The Silk Betrayal: Marankiya’s epic

    The Silk Betrayal: Marankiya’s epic

    Tolkien once gave a now-famous talk about how his impulse to create languages had always been a sort of secret vice for him—and he suspected for a small but passionate number of others. I’ve always admired Tolkien’s language creation, but I am also wel…

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