Sunday was a whirlwind. With focusing on finishing my shows at the Blue Ridge on a good note and getting all of my school stuff out of the way and ready for me to miss a week and a half, I hadn’t...
2023-12-25 18:00:05 +0000 UTC View Post
So I think how I'm going to do this is images of new/important characters and locations, I'll put into their own concept art postings (this is stuff that's important series wide, so it will only be...
2023-12-23 16:47:01 +0000 UTC View PostWilliam stood among the gathered nobility in the Great Hall of Starhaven, waiting for Serwyn’s coronation to begin. The cavernous hall had changed since William’s last visit, when he paid his f...
2023-12-23 16:46:01 +0000 UTC View Post
I finally got around to getting a map for Imperium, which hopefully will make it easier to know where some of the places are (it's mostly based on books 1-5, since I just started writing book 6, so...
2023-12-22 15:06:48 +0000 UTC View PostI’d spent a lot of time over the last week working on Willie’s last song, trying to nail down the sound of it. Even a week after his funeral, it was nice to have this little piece of connection...
2023-12-21 13:58:01 +0000 UTC View PostGalveston, Texas
Seven hours later, Taylor and Whitaker were escorted up to the top floors of the Houston field office. They’d managed to get a nap on the short plane ride ...
2023-12-20 19:14:00 +0000 UTC View Post
Here's the initial concept art for The Veilguard Saga. I'm doing this for most chapters of the two fantasy stories, so I can see in my head what stuff looks like when I start writing it. Is t...
2023-12-19 15:17:00 +0000 UTC View Post
This is for my new series, the The Veilguard Saga. It's a high magic fantasy, a throwback to the classic stuff from the 80s & early 90s like R.A. Salvator, Dragonlance, Pern, etc. Althoug...
2023-12-19 15:15:01 +0000 UTC View PostTaylor stepped over Matthews’ body, a dark stain still slowly spreading across the man’s shirt, and looked out the window. Ruiz and the military seemed to have things well in hand. The firefigh...
2023-12-19 01:25:09 +0000 UTC View Post
I didn't do this for Country Roads or Imperium, but the two fantasy series, I started with some concept art so I could get a better feel for things (I also have a map for both, the shattered lands ...
2023-12-17 23:19:35 +0000 UTC View PostMonday, things started to get back to normal. I was still sad about Willie’s passing, but I had things to do. The competition was coming up soon, and I needed to make sure I got all of my ducks i...
2023-12-17 14:22:01 +0000 UTC View PostTo his credit, Ruiz moved fast. It took him only two hours to have a Mexican army jet do a high-level flyover of the hills, locating a villa in a dip in the side of the large hills west of town, on...
2023-12-14 17:22:00 +0000 UTC View PostTaylor paced back and forth in the Ruiz’s cramped office, his agitation growing with each pass around the small room. His fingers twitched and flexed as he expelled the restless energy that cours...
2023-12-14 02:00:02 +0000 UTC View PostTaylor was dead asleep, sprawled across the lumpy hotel mattress with one arm dangling off the edge at the elbow. The drawn curtains did little to block the bright afternoon sunlight filtering into...
2023-12-12 15:00:03 +0000 UTC View PostThe morning was gray and overcast as I pulled into the church parking lot for Willie’s funeral service. I’d driven alone, letting Hanna and Kat, who had come back into town for the service, get...
2023-12-10 16:44:01 +0000 UTC View PostTaylor gave one last look at the body and pulled out his phone. Matthews might have escaped, but he’d made a mistake. Until now, Taylor had been focused on accomplishing the goal they’d been se...
2023-12-08 14:23:00 +0000 UTC View PostThough it had been several days since his father delivered the news, William was still unsettled by his uncle’s passing. Once again secluded in his rooms, he grappled with the loss, trying to mak...
2023-12-06 17:20:01 +0000 UTC View PostThe drive home after my audition was pure bliss. I had the windows down and the music cranked up, singing along at the top of my lungs. I still couldn’t believe how well it had gone, better than ...
2023-12-04 14:00:06 +0000 UTC View PostThe apartment complex was asleep when Taylor and Whitaker pulled into the lot. They made their way to Salamanca’s darkened apartment, which was just as quiet as everything else.
“Let me t...
2023-12-02 13:00:06 +0000 UTC View PostSo I've had a big update to the planned books page (I put the text of what I wrote below, so you don't have to go searching for it) I know I'm spreading myself thin, story wise, and I welcome...
2023-12-01 19:40:48 +0000 UTC View PostParking in Atlanta was a lot harder than I thought it would be. I ended up blocks away from the auditorium where the contest was being held, in an area that I wasn’t one hundred percent sure even...
2023-11-29 16:00:02 +0000 UTC View PostMonday, I was still preoccupied with everything that happened over the weekend. I was worried about Willie and what going into hospice meant for him. I was worried I wouldn’t get to see him again...
2023-11-26 15:00:03 +0000 UTC View PostMiracle of miracles, school did start turning around for me. It took an angry phone call from Kat on Wednesday because I was already falling behind her study schedule, but I did really well on my m...
2023-11-23 13:19:01 +0000 UTC View PostI got home that night, after stopping to check in with Warren and visit Willie, with a problem on my mind. After talking to Mr. Jensen, I went by to talk to some of my other teachers and get some k...
2023-11-20 17:08:00 +0000 UTC View PostMy first day of school went … surprisingly well. Even with Dr. Wallace’s assurances, I’d just assumed something was going to go terribly wrong, based on the last two years. Instead, I had nor...
2023-11-17 15:47:01 +0000 UTC View PostI got hit with the flu over the weekend and feel like I've been hit by a bus. I don't think it will last long (I hope), but there will be a few day delay in the next chapter. Sorry abou...
2023-11-13 13:10:34 +0000 UTC View Post“Thanks for listening to us tonight, folks. Y’all have a good night now,” I said into the microphone as we wrapped up our Sunday night gig at the Blue Ridge.
The scattered applause and ...
2023-11-11 23:05:01 +0000 UTC View PostHours later, Taylor and Whitaker made it back to El Paso, exhausted when they finally got to their hotel. Unfortunately for them, that didn’t mean an end to their evening.
They both wanted ...
2023-11-09 21:11:01 +0000 UTC View PostFinally, the day arrived for Kat to move to school. I’d been ignoring it, enjoying the month or so we’d had together before she moved away, but I couldn’t keep pretending it wasn’t happenin...
2023-11-07 15:26:00 +0000 UTC View Post