The Shining Continent

Hooking The Audience

Hooking The Audience

The most important page of any book is the first. Those first few paragraphs and that first sentence can make or break the book. How many times have you picked up a novel, read the first page, and put it back down?  I had the good fortune to take a seminar with best-selling author Jody…

Four Fonts, Four Nations, Four Magicks (Excerpt from “The Third Secret”)

Four Fonts, Four Nations, Four Magicks (Excerpt from “The Third Secret”)

Excerpted from notes for an unpublished treatise by the zoologist Nanuridin Carosley. The work was recorded in neutered signmark, the Orsino stamped alphabet, without intent of ever publishing due to its controversial approach of treating the people of the Four Nations as if comparable to animals. Anthris and the Western Font Physickery: a deep connection…

Sins of the Poet (Excerpt)

Sins of the Poet (Excerpt)

Sixteen minutes before the mark was scheduled to arrive. Why had she agreed to take on this ill-conceived fiasco of a job? The money: a thousand silver drachms divided three ways. She needed the money. She always needed the money. “Deyva, what are you doing?” Sami dropped her fabricator’s wands and grabbed Deyva’s fingers to…