CHAPTER 1 Her song found me on the road and pulled at me like something out of a dream like when you know you have to find the end to a tunnel. So you look, but you’re not sure what it is you’re looking for. I knew what I had to find, the moment […]
Regarding the Dvergar
No subject proved more diverse in the research than that I did for the Dvergar. The wide amount of speculation spanning a millennium, allowed for a considerable amount of liberal translation than any other subject used for my story. Prior to the Christianization of Scandinavia (995 C.E.–1,000 C.E.) the stories and legends around the four […]
Deleted Chapter 51 – Author Edition
Here it is. My first deleted chapter. This is a chapter I wrote to explain the history behind my story. When you factor in the amount of research I did, I would guess I spent nearly six months writing this chapter. But alas, nearly five months out from publishing, I have decided to cut it. […]
Building Story
Now and then another writers comes to me with advice on writing. Below is a letter I wrote to one author in response to a plethora of questions she had on how a writer builds story. Dear Writer: Your question was: Oh! Also. I was wondering how much it really bugged you not […]
Excerpt “Where is your brother?”
Excerpt from Dolor and Shadow “Where is he?” Geirolf waited for Bergen to speak. Instead, the Dark One simply grinned from behind the flask, catching a bit of light with the scar on his right brow. Geirolf brought his voice down with a bit more severity than before. “Rune is nowhere to be found. […]
Excerpt “I’m not going!”
Excerpt from Dolor and Shadow With a bold grin, Rune hoisted the armload of brush onto his shoulder and swaggered back to Astrid, taking care to slam his shoulder hard into Kallan’s as he past. With a shuffled thud, he dumped the brush onto the saddle and his hands went to work, tying off […]
Excerpt “Ludicrous Lies”
Excerpt from Dolor and Shadow A void encompassed Kallan. Distant voices faded in the dark. What pain there was, she didn’t feel. Not yet anyway. The darkness devours everything. Light does what it can to fight it off, producing endless energy to do so. Endless energy. Endless Seidr. Light has to try so hard. […]
Excerpt: “The last of my life is leaving me.”
Excerpt From Dolor and Shadow Kallan inhaled again, painfully numb to the stagnant nothingness as she stared into the black waters of the Kattegat. The waves washed into the rock, beating at Lorlenalin’s base like the void that pushed against her, wearing her down little by little, carving out the rock one wave at […]
Excerpt: “Why did you save me?”
Excerpt from Dolor and Shadow Empty and forgotten, the third flask lay among their bags as Kallan stared up at the moon’s crescent. With every image that plagued her imagination, her sanity slipped further from rational. Huffing, she flipped to her side. From across the fire, light spread up and over Rune, spilling over […]
Building Bergen
This page is part of the tour. Bergen. “I love Bergen,” I say with a grin. I really don’t know how Bergen managed his way into my book. Knowing him, he probably slipped in through the back when I wasn’t looking. As I broke and shaped my story, I worked and warped it around […]