Sorry about the mini-hiatus, I did want to post too much until a couple of opportunities came to fruition.  That said I have a big announcement, “Those Below” has been picked up by a publisher, Sue Harrington of Stories for…

As a complete newbie to the publishing scene, I thought it might be worth my time to reach out to a few of my favorite authors for advice.  To my eternal gratitude one author, David Drake, responded and he and…

One of the hardest things to do when writing is to build actual culture into your world.  When you are trying to tell a story and are limited by the number of pages that you can use (or that your…

First things first, I am incredibly excited as we are into the final countdown to publish Those Below, due to the efforts of my beautiful, helpful, patient, and tech-savvy wife. If you have stumbled upon this website prior to October…

  So, a major element of the story I present in Those Below is the concept of people mummified in bags and buried in the earth.  This is actually something that I pulled directly out of history.  The Peruvian and…