A couple of months ago I was asked to do an interview on Magician, the first book in the Veiled Earth Series. I thought you might enjoy reading it too. Feel free to tell me your thoughts in the comments. The Book Magician is pretty special to you, can you tell us why? Magician was the first book I finished, and it represents a turning point in my life. Up to that point I’d only ever finished short stories and started novels only to abandon them later when it became too hard

An adverb is a word that modifies a verb, adjective, another adverb, determiner, noun phrase, clause, or sentence. Adverbs typically express manner, place, time, frequency, degree, level of certainty, etc., answering questions such as how?, in what way?, when?, where?, and to what extent?. Adverbs are evil. Adverbs should die. Adverbs are a rookie’s tool. Adverbs are linguistic Hitler. Okay, that last one might have gone too far. But you take my meaning, I hope. Adverbs are n

Sometimes you’ll hear people discussing a visual medium such as television, and the unintended effect of some visual clue or key. “That wasn’t what I meant at all,” the director might say. Or an actor. Or the cameraman. But in a static art such as painting or writing, you need to remember there are no accidents. You might not have considered (as I had not) that each brush stroke in a painting is intentional. That each detail has to be carefully added by the artist. There is