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

It’s been over a decade since I began the urban fantasy trilogy The Veiled Earth. The final book is here! The world has been irrevocably changed by the rogue enclave of Magicians who tore away the Veil that hid the real world from view. Valentien Dunne is gone, and his friends Mike and Vanessa McKellen are left in a strange new world to cope with the aftermath of the greatest spell ever cast. Magic is thriving, and Magicians are as well… but Eden isn’t for everyone. Those hum

It’s finished. 121k words. The final book in The Veiled Earth Trilogy is in the can. The journey I began with Magician, and continued in Martyr, has ended in Savior, and it didn’t turn out ANYTHING like I envisioned. Villains became heroes, heroes became citizens, and the world was saved, sort of. It’s the way everything works, I suppose. Life, I mean. You can never tell what’s going to happen, and people will always surprise you. And it’s finished. I feel kinda… weird. I’ve

So… after replenishing the 30k words I sliced away from the carcass of my latest novel, I added them back… and then some. The Veiled Earth: Savior is currently at 105k, and counting. The first book was only 101k. The second was 99k. But I want to do it RIGHT, damn it. I’ve lived with these characters for over ten years. I thought I knew their depths, I thought I knew their motivations, and I certainly thought I knew how it would end. I am delighted to discover I’m wrong on ev

On January 26th of this year, While making a run at the final edit of the final book in my Veiled Earth Trilogy, I spotted a terrible digression and some plot flaws and had to excise a few words- thirty thousand, basically. That took the manuscript from complete at 88k to not even close at 58k. Today I hit 88k, having revised and shored up and extended and inserted and… god damn it. I fell in love with what should have been a one-sided, plot moving, opposite-of-the-hero type