Dwarves in fantasy may be dour, beer-swilling, gold-digging troglodytes, but there’s no doubt about their importance in myth and folklore. In the Prose Edda, four dwarves (Norori, Suori, Austri, and Vestri) hold up the sky, and there’s even some scholarly speculation that the little folk may have had a hand in the creation of the…
The Codex of Her Scars is finished and out with publishers. Hopefully it will be released this year. Here’s the blurb: Suffering is the door through which demons enter… On the Isle of Branikdür rival clans make perpetual war, manipulated by a cabal of sorcerers whose only real power is deception and sleight of hand. Tey…
After reviewing the audio files for the audiobook version of Carnifex, I was so impressed with the narration that I invited Paul Woodson to talk about his background in theater, his approach to narration, and any advice he could give to narrators just starting out. The resultant Q&A is below: Tell us a bit about…
PLOT: Some writers like to plan out plot in great detail and the make the characters perform the actions required by the plot. When I first started writing novels I did this and the result was two-dimensional characters whose sole purpose was to get the story from A to B. These days I know how…
