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Thoughts on craft, storytelling, the publishing journey, and everything in between.
This is my first-ever blog post. It's fair to say I don't yet have the slightest clue what I'm doing. I'm building this website myself, so it's not only a work in progress, but a near-constant educational headache as I try to figure things out. Bear with me. I hope to keep posting here about writing, games, film, and whatever else crosses my mind.
Read More →Fantasy lets you strip away the noise of the real world and get at something true. When you put a goblin latrine slave in charge of saving a kingdom, you're really asking: what does it take for the least powerful person in the room to matter? That question drives everything I write.
Read More →Jester started as a throwaway joke — a goblin who cleans toilets for a living. Then I asked myself: what if that goblin had to save the world? Five drafts, two complete rewrites, and one very patient editor later, here we are. Here's how the book came to be.
Read More →Comic fantasy is a tightrope walk. Lean too far into the jokes and you lose the stakes. Lean too far into the drama and the comedy falls flat. Terry Pratchett made it look effortless. It isn't. Here's what I've learned about making readers laugh while still making them care.
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