A quick post. There’s an interview with me on the subject of writing the Kormak series over at the Dark Heroic Fantasy Blogspot. I’d like to thank Peter Welmerink for giving me the chance to ramble. If you’re interested in finding out when my next book will be released as well as in getting discounts and free short stories, please sign up for my mailing list.
Sword of Wrath, the 8th Kormak novel, has just been released. Here’s the blurb: SWORD OF WRATH En route to the distant colonies of Terra Nova on a secret mission for the King-Emperor, Kormak and his companions find themselves stranded on a remote island. They must solve the terrible mystery of what happened to the missing population before a monstrous scourge overwhelms them too. And, all the while, a treacherous, sorcerous assassin lurks in the background waiting for his chance to kill. The ebook is priced at $2.99 or the local store equivalent. You can find the book on: Amazon.com Read more…
So, after all the preparation, I set merrily to work. I wrote the first draft in Scrivener with the outline broken down into scenes in its index card window. Any additional information I needed was in the research folder. I kept all the artwork I had been given by Blizzard in that Scrivener file too along with all the screenshots I had taken during my research trips. Read more…
Just a quick head’s up for all the Warcraft readers with Apple Devices. Read more…
I had worked out what I wanted to say about the characters. Or at least I had a starting point for it. More always gets revealed as you write. Now I needed to start building a framework for the story. Most of this was already there in the Blizzard briefing document, and in what I knew about Illidan’s life from Warcraft 3 and Burning Crusade. Most WoW players know what happens at the end of the Black Temple raid and most of us know the events that lead up to it. We know that Akama betrays Illidan and Maiev is Read more…
I’ve started using my Kindle to revise the ninth Kormak novel Masque of Death, and now I am wondering why I never thought of doing it before. Read more…