Aside: The Kickstarter for the 10th Anniversary Edition of my dark, epic fantasy series Saga of the God-Touched Mage is fully alive now. I’ll comment on it a bit below. If you’re interested, you can find it here: In Andy Weir’s bestselling SF book, The Martian, we follow an astronaut who is presented with a […]
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A Watched Cat Never Boils
So it goes. Every now and again, our cat Sophie will choose not to eat all of her food. We don’t know why, but at least one of us worries a lot about that—mostly about the act of throwing away food. There are, apparently, starving cats in Africa. It struck me some time back that […]
Read More ...SGTM & Me, Rethinking The Tropes
Young folks today. I tell ya. I am, slowly, being dragged into the modern age when it comes to talking about books, readers, and storylines. By this, I mean, yes, I’m trying to think about tropes. The publishing world today seems to revolve around these things, which, in my mind, until recently, were the classic […]
Read More ...Saga 2.0 – God Mage Finds Its Ending
The upcoming Kickstarter release of the 10th anniversary edition of my fantasy series, Saga of the God-Touched Mage. Has been sucking up soo much of my time this recent past, but it’s been a good … um … well … never mind. I’ll be talking about God Mage, which is book four, in a moment. […]
Read More ...SGTM: Creating a Kickstarter Project
If you follow me at all, it’s obvious that I’ve been putting a ton of work into a super-cool 10th Anniversary release of my Sage of the God-Touched Mage series. The expectation is that the initial release will be via a Kickstarter project starting on July 15th (see the preview here), with the full wide […]
Read More ...Saga 2.0 – Rogue Mage (wherein things get complicated)
I’m still all hopped up about the upcoming Kickstarter release of the 10th anniversary edition of my fantasy series, Saga of the God-Touched Mage. I’ll be yammering on a bit about Rogue Mage, which is book three, in a moment. But for now, you can check out the Kickstarter Preview here: Get Notified! As with […]
Read More ...Saga 2.0 – Champion Mage Comes Together
I’m going to ramble a little about Champion Mage in a sec, but if you’ve been around here for just the past two weeks, even, you know that I’m all hopped up about the upcoming Kickstarter release of the 10th anniversary edition of my fantasy series, Saga of the God-Touched Mage. You can check out […]
Read More ...Saga 2.0 – Putting Together Apprentice Mage
If you’ve been around here for just the past two weeks, even, you know that I’m all hopped up about the upcoming Kickstarter release of the 10th anniversary edition of my fantasy series, Saga of the God-Touched Mage. You can check out the Kickstarter Preview here: I’ve also put a video that displays the books […]
Read More ...The Saga Begins (Again)
The proofs are here! The proofs are here! I can’t begin to say how excited I am that proofs for all four volumes of the Special, 10th Anniversary Edition of Saga of the God-Touched Mage have now officially landed at the Collins Condo. Oh. My. God. I videoed my experience with getting a first look […]
Read More ...Ron Sees & Juliet
I’ve been working my butt off, thinking through a million things regarding the release of the 10th Anniversary Edition of Saga of the God-Touched Mage, which is a piece of work that holds a big place in my heart simply for the fact that it was my first major leap into this world of being […]
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