Book Blog
A place for story notes, worldbuilding discoveries, writing updates, and glimpses behind the curtain of my fantasy worlds—along with the occasional reader quiz or bit of fun.
Who’s who in the world of Myrrah
Work on the first book of Games of Fire is going well. It, like the Rise of the Fifth Order trilogy, is set in the fantasy world of Myrrah. Games of Fire will be the fourth series I've written, though only the third published. I try to forget my first attempt at...
Hurricane Lempert: The Drowning of Miami in 2042
Perception holds that change is slow. Sea levels creep upwards, nibbling at protective dunes and the footings of beachside houses. We will witness climate change unfolding as a slow motion disaster, best seen in reverse and through time lapse. Perceptions are wrong....
The World of Myrrah: The Northern Shore of the Sea of Sarketh
It is a place where stucco buildings perch along cliffs as red as the tiled roofs. The towns and cities along the northern coast of the Sea of Sarketh are some of the oldest in Myrrah, second only to those along the Archipelago of Bellaia in age and standing. The sea...
Harvey’s Flu: how we survived the Pandemic of 2039
The oversights that allowed veterinarian Harvey Reynolds to head research on BECD, bovine enteric coronavirus disease, while ill with multi-specie infecting H7N7 and the lack of follow up for the epsilon mutation in bovine herds were the last mistakes of the pandemic...
Harvey’s Flu: the Unfolding of the Pandemic of 2039
First Meeting, the beginning of my dystopian compilation of Friends of my Enemy: Stories from the War hints at events that unfolded in the beginning decades of the twenty-first century. Events that changed the world. Harvey's Flu is the first... The official...
The Making of a Trilogy – Post 2
As I mentioned in my last post, I hadn’t plotted out what came after Born of Water, book 1 in my epic fantasy trilogy. That wasn’t a horrible thing, but I do think I missed a few opportunities to really weave the overall arc of my trilogy together. That is a mistake I...
The Making of a Trilogy
Planning a trilogy is not the same as writing a novel. Especially when, like so many new authors, I wrote the first book without much of a concept on what would happen next - or even if there would be a next. I was happy to have written a book at that point! There are...
The details of my fantasy world building
Sometimes my fantasy world building spills over into the real world. You see, my husband and I are building a house. We aren’t expert carpenters or plumbers. Even more challenging is it is in a remote spot and off-grid. Lots of hurdles to tackle there. I feel like...
The Language of the Elements: Kay Selfah
It seems crazy to me now, but yeah, when I wrote Born of Water I created a language to go with it. What can I say? I wrote and edited the novel over three years. Plenty of time to screw around with such lofty goals such as creating worlds and languages! Looking back...