I always hesitate to call my writing fantasy, because I know that gives people the wrong impression. I’m more often tempted to call it historical fiction, because that seems easier to explain and defend. There is no magic in my imaginary world. There are no fantastical creatures. There’s nothing, in fact, that would be implausible […]
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4 Feb 14
Top 10 Tuesday: Books to make you cry
I feel like I should rename this as “Books that will make you cry if you, in fact, cry for books.” I don’t, typically. The following books particularly moved me—if I did cry for books these would be the ones that did it—but I think I only truly cried at the first. Some spoilers follow, […]
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21 Jan 14
Top 10 Tuesday: Reading wishlist
I’m totally stealing the idea for this post from Maureen at By Singing Light, but Top Ten Tuesday is a weekly meme hosted by The Broke and the Bookish. The topic for this week is “Top Ten Things On My Reading Wishlist.” Or, to clarify: “if you could make authors write about these things you […]
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17 Jun 13
Aquae excerpt #4
If there’s an upside to my blogging hardly at all in the past month, it’s that all most of my blogging time has been devoted to my WIP (the rest to summer classes and the Stanley Cup playoffs). The second draft of Aquae is now over 30,000 words long. Here’s another excerpt for your enjoyment—at […]
25 May 13
All the old familiar places
As much as I dislike the old adage “write what you know” for the constrictions it places upon writers’ imaginations, in one sense it’s not bad advice at all. As a writer of historical fiction, it’s vital that I have a solid grasp of the context in which I’m writing. A lot of my research […]
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Introduction
I'm an amateur military historian, a drinker of coffee and dry red wine, a cinephile, a hockey fan, a cat lady, and an all-around nerd. I like to travel. I also like books, philosophy, and political theory. I write historical fiction and fantasy, most of which deals with combat and conflict in the individual experience. My debut YA historical fantasy novel His Own Good Sword was released on 7 May 2013.
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