• It’s About Weaponized Trauma and Found Family

    One of the things I thought was interesting about Witch King was the magic systems and how they echo the underlying themes of the novel. Some of the themes addressed are trauma, PTSD, and the situations that created the trauma and PTSD. (A horrifying genocidal war that wiped out most of the population of the…

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  • Lord of the Black Mountain Chapter Ten

    Caris could hear whispering going on in the stacks of Lord Nemar’s library. He sighs and sets down his brush, frowning in the direction of the voices. The children were either spying on him or planning another prank. Possibly both. “I’m allowed to be in here,” he says. “I’m not so sure small children are…

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  • Revisions Revisions Revisions (Decisions)

    Okay so, not a lot of writing got done this week. At least, not new writing. It turns out that chapters two and three of Lord of the Black Mountain were not saying the things I needed them to say. That is, I did the thing where I thought I had explained something and left…

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  • Book Review: The Archive Undying by Emma Mieko Candon

    The Archive Undying is a complicated, complex book with unexpected moments of humor and a certain denseness to its prose. (In the sense that you have to work your way slowly through the narrative so you don’t miss anything important. And also in the sense that there’s richness and poetry in the prose, even when…

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  • Lord of the Black Mountain Chapter Nine

    Lasen Temeri arrived at their first scheduled study session in the library looking extremely rattled. “I feel like I’ve been wrung out to dry,” she says, giving Caris an accusing look that was very nearly a glare. She thumps her books down on the table and sits. “Your Highness, know that your husband is very…

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