Loud as a Whisper
One of the freeing – and terrifying – things about writing a novel is when the characters take over. In The Darkness Before Them one character in particular made it very, very clear that...
Let the Characters Take the Wheel
Every now and then (eerily it’s often around the time of a book launch) I’m asked a question that boils down to “What Comes First, Plot or Character?” The answer – at least for...
Three Things I Wish I’d Known
November marks an occasion both amazing and terrifying: my Orbit debut, Legacy of Ash, is unleashed upon the world. While I’ve been writing for decades now, accumulating a small library of self-published works, a...