It’s my pleasure to announce the second book in the Bane War Series: Called to Serve. Inspired by Avengers, Ukraine, and the Witcher, you’ll follow Ishethra’s and Tariq’s courtship, their daughter Saffa Nightwind (she’s on the cover) and her Institute …
When I first started the Bane War series, I knew Alonka and Dragan had to have their own story. With the help of Allison, my editor, along with Hannah and Natalia, my beta readers, the book is ready for prime …
Silver lining? Now I can write exquisite prose about the sensation of injury in real-time because I’m pretty sure my shoulder ligaments are hanging by threads, all cartilage long gone. Jeff sat at his computer, hesitant to take a selfie …
With Trickster Trysting, Bane War Vol. II in beta reading stage, I wanted to share updates. First, Fury Feeding got great feedback from a Netgalley promotion I did a few months ago. Readers liked the concept overall, but shared three …
Have you ever gone through, chapter by chapter, and painstakingly added drop caps to your novel? Well, that ends today. I’m originally a software engineer by trade, turned dark fantasy writer, so here’s a little script I made to create …
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On February, 24th, 2022, russia invaded Ukraine without provocation. But too often people forget, russia annexed Crimea in February-March of 2014. Russia’s war against Ukraine has lasted ten years, with no signs of ending. Daily, they murder civilians and kidnap …
Amazon charges a whopping 0.15 USD per megabyte delivered (converted from British pounds in Amazon’s example). When I first read this, I thought it meant gigabyte, but no … it’s megabyte. Imagine having to pay 15 cents everytime you downloaded …
I spent an entire day fiddling with images, positioning them pixel perfect and finally got fed up, so I made a tool to do it. With this tool, you can take your cover’s back, spine, and front image and put …
I’ve put together a bunch of VBA macros for Microsoft Word that work around numerous longstanding bugs in Scrivener, or other common scenarios, like removing two or more spaces between sentences, trimming paragraphs, that sort of thing. I hope it …
Kate Vishnyakova has crafted a beautiful masterpiece, lifting my writing with her creative skill.