Even if you’re a fairy tale enthusiast like me, you still need to make a little time in your life for poetry. If you’re feeling like savoring some verses where every word is weighed, consider checking out Ms. Singh’s work.…

Have you heard? D. Wallace Peach has released a new fantasy series, and news like that is worth our attention. Soul Swallowers is D. Wallace Peach’s best book to date, and that’s saying something. From her prior books I’ve come…

The Golden Key is set at the end of World War I, and as such, required a fair amount of research to write. It was an absolutely brutal war, ironically because this conflict favored defenders, which sounds like a good…

By 1918, Europe had spent over four years embroiled in the Great War. This terrible war to end all wars had consumed an endless stream of men—all shot, gassed, or obliterated by artillery in the trenches. Dieter, a German farmer,…

In addition to being May Day and National Chocolate Parfait Day, May 1st is also Mother Goose Day. Huzzah! I loved Mother Goose rhymes as a child, and I used them a lot when I taught kindergarten and first grade.…

GDPR (the UK’s General Data Protection Regulation) has created some new requirements for bloggers and authors with mailing lists. I’m doing my best to comply, and publicly posting my privacy policy is part of that. So, here goes. I’ll give…

Now this is a holiday I can get into–it ranks right up there with Tell a Fairy Tale Day in my book. It was chosen because it was on this very day, March 25th, that Frodo dropped the ring into…

Back in the late seventies and throughout the eighties, fantasy was dominated by stories written in the tradition of J.R.R. Tolkien. Some darker stories were certainly published, but what I loved most about the genre were the endless permutations of…