Given the current emergency, I considered writing on past diseases that made a great impact upon a society. I may still do that, but the growing reports of people buying up a single, most essential item has led me to write this post. Toilet paper,...
Alone On The Mountain
It’s early summer, but this high up it was still bitterly cold even though the sun hung high in the cloudless sky. What little snow had survived up until now crunched underneath the traveler’s bearskin soles. At least his feet stayed warm. His hand hurt,...
The Lighthouse Keeper
I play tabletop RPGs as a hobby, and I also GM campaigns. One of those campaigns I ran was for Dungeons & Dragons 5th edition, shortened to DnD 5e or just 5e by many. It was set in an archipelago called the Thousand Isles, where...
Battle of the Sexes
Today’s post is inspired by two news stories I’ve come across these last few days. One was a podcaster called Andrew Klavan claiming that women would always lose a swordfight against a man, if that man knew what he was doing. The other, a Kansas...
What’s in a cover
With the reveal of the cover of The Living Sword 2 – The Road Ahead, I thought it the perfect time to look back and talk a bit about covers in general. Because covers are important, both for the reader and the writer. The cover...
My New Website
So this is my new website. It is part of my relaunch as an author and I hope it will work. I’m still figuring out how to do things and I hope you’ll bear with me as I work out the kinks. But I believe...