Embrace Your Flaws   Life is a bunch of little steps. It’s an adventure. We never know what’s around the next bend, but that’s what makes it great.   This is how I feel about my artistic journey. I learned so much last year, completing To Secure a Scion and putting together the audio for An Occasion to Mourn. (Coming soon!)   Back in 2017, when I started seriously writing, I finished the first draft of To Secure a Scion, the first segment of Vale’s adventures. Its prologue was a short clip about this guy named Darith. But Vale was the one I instantly adored, especially after my daughter was born. Then I realized Vale’s story and Darith’s story need to have their own lights....

The Work Goes On February 2022   Has it really been over a year? I admit it. I’m a terrible blogger. 🥺 No, I’m not dead. Yes, I’ve had COVID. Twice even. Maybe three times. I wanted to be sure I had my share of it. Yes, I completely, 100% self-isolated every day except for emergency frozen pizza and popcorn resupply runs and going to my day job. JK. I believe very strongly in self-isolation. It’s one of the axioms I live by. If you read my last post, then you know I’m way behind schedule. Like a year behind, but who’s counting? Anyway, I figured I’m overdue for another report. Progress comes a little at a time and a little every day. Yes, I am writing every day. The first book in...

And so it begins... January 2021 I captured this photograph near my home while out for a morning bike ride.   With the advent of An Occasion to Mourn, A Chronicles of Candlelight Prequel (Book 0), I wanted to introduce my general writing plan and provide a brief history of my efforts. Four years ago, when the opportunity to begin Darith’s dark tale was thrust upon me, I sat in front of my computer and started to write in earnest. I saw Darith at his post, swarmed by dark, menacing creatures. I saw him dragged into the belly of despair. I saw his black beginning and his glorious end, but I knew that his was only half of the story. He held the meat and the bones, so to speak, but not...

Hello! Welcome to my blog. This one will be quick, but I wanted to share a little about myself and what motivates me. I was raised on a farm in the Pacific Northwest where the summers are short and the nights are long. I remember looking into the night sky, mouth agape as I pondered stars beyond number. I knew, even as a child, there had to be other worlds out there. Space is infinite, and within the breadth of eternity rests fields of limitless possibility. Those thoughts have followed me into adulthood. My mother taught me to read, which opened doors to these worlds I had imagined. Books are my treasures. My house is packed with them. Then, after I completed years of formal training and...