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On the Evolution of God
I know, you’re asking yourself “Doesn’t he have that wrong? God is eternal. He doesn’t evolve.” I guess I could qualify it with the addition of “…in Hillebrecht’s Brain”, but I think the issue has wider ramifications than that. Religion keeps cropping up in my novels, and I was surprised to see a gradual change…
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Rejection
Rejection! Soul-crushing, image-destroying public humiliation, concentrated in the form of a standardized one-page piece of paper stating “does not currently fit our needs”! The dreaded rejection letter for a literary query. And it wasn’t even signed by a human being! Your newest and greatest offering, Cyrano Gets a Nose Job, has been spurned by the…
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The Joys of Trilogies and Book Series
If you’re a dedicated reader, you undoubtedly know the little rush of pleasure when you find a good book that you can’t put down and then discover it is part of a series, promising a succession of similar experiences awaiting you in the near future. It hit me first when I was 15 and came…
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A Book Without a Home
Yeah, well, we’ve all done it. Acted first, thought later. The impulse buy. Opening your mouth at the wrong time. The kiss that went too far. Act in haste, repent in leisure, a proverb as old as language itself. A lot can be understood – if not forgiven – in the heat of the moment,…
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Bad Endings
The nightmare in the bright, gleaming morning light. You’ve been slaving away for months at that new and exciting novel, The Unpainted Corner, thrilling at each successive chapter, glorying at the maturation and development of the characters, the stirring pace of the plot, the power of the prose beckoning the reader forward like a literary…
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Genre
I’ve sometimes had questions – OK, challenges – about the eclectic nature of my novels. I mean, most authors choose their genre and stick to it, grinding out multiple variations of their first success and sticking with what they know they can do well. Me? I’ve got a couple of high fantasy trilogies consisting of…