Blog: Fair Winds
The Instruction of Disruption
I don’t like change. It grates and disrupts, like sand. Once I’ve established a good routine, I am happy to continue in it forever. It’s comfortable and predictable. What’s not to like? But I’ve been learning that perhaps comfort isn’t the highest end in life. Change...
The Gaze of the POV: Widening the View
When I first aspired to write a novel, I never questioned that it must be in the first-person POV. With the certainty of a 14-year-old, I plotted innumerable scenes where my unerring perspective brimmed with the depth and insight that all readers longed to experience....
Solidarity and Insight at Other People’s Reunion
Having gone to college in a town where the greatest attraction was a Mobil gas station, I learned not to limit my friends to those in my class. Thus, I recently attended the 35-year reunion for the class that was a year behind me. It exceeded my expectations, and I...
Book Review: Two Houses
I recently came across two books that restored my excitement in epic fantasy. They are about two houses that are similar yet quite different. Two Houses Unlike in Dignity Will Wight’s House of Blades is the first book of his Traveler’s Gate Trilogy. I bought that on...
Asian Wildlife Wonders
While researching for a bingo game at the Veil of Wisdom launch party, I delved into the wonders of Asian wildlife. Here are a few tidbits you may or may not know. Panda-monium: Which is the Most Adorable? Pandas are probably the first animals that come to mind when...
Bounty over the Sea
A short story set in Meiwen several decades before Veil of Wisdom, Far Stone Cycle Book 3. It was published in Havok magazine in April 2025. The sneeze quivered on Munya’s nose, and she opened her mouth. Mami clamped a hand over both, earning her a fistful of spit and...
