Draxton’s Destiny is one week closer to release, and I’m terrified excited to see what everyone thinks of the wounded sergeant and his Minshaari. Last week, I presented an interlude from the Ravyn’s point of view which was cut from the final novel as extraneous information. This week is no different. Read on for a deleted scene featuring my original space boys, Petri and Grokhaar.
The photo which inspired this flash piece is one I took at Lake Wenatchee in Washington State. The piece of driftwood, snarled and smoothed by time and water, looked (to me) like a dryad emerging from a protective shell of roots. The story took off from there. Enjoy!
Draxton’s Destiny is approaching its release date, so I thought I’d share a few thoughts on the book, a peek at the early reviews, and a deleted scene that I loved but didn’t fit.
Tuesdays are for Teasing! Today I’m returning to the Edgeworld Chronicles as I gear up to the release of Draxton’s Destiny, the second in that series. Draxton’s actions in Subject 5691: Petri lead to his arrest and imprisonment for two long years as the Alliance seeks to recapture their escaped experiment. Frustrated by Draxton’s iron will, his commander places him on the slave market where he’s bought by Losha Brixys, a mysterious offworlder. Like a…
In going through an old notebook, I found this piece I wrote several years ago. I dusted it off, made some changes, and offer it up as a bit of flash fiction for your enjoyment. It’s a shorter piece, just under 800 words, but one I’d held onto to see if it became anything more.
I’ve completed the first draft of Izabel, third in the Wolves of Sorrow series of short novels, and will let it simmer for a few weeks before returning for a second pass to iron out any noticeable kinks. Would love to get one or two more reliable beta readers on board, so if you’re interested, drop me a line in the comments below, contact me on Facebook or Twitter, or shoot me an email. The…
I’ve been rather lax about my flash pieces here, pouring my time and effort into getting the various projects finished I wanted to publish this year. With Brienne released, Draxton up for preorder, and Izabel ready for the beta readers, I decided to return to a bit of short fiction. Caught was the working title of Wolves of Sorrow: Shoba, so I thought it’d be a nice title for a slice of life piece featuring the growly wolf and her Rifaniir mate.…
Tuesdays are for Teasing! Today I’m returning to the Edgeworld Chronicles and the second in that series. We first met Draxton when he helped Petri escape the space station which created, imprisoned, and tortured him. He reappears on Kinstral when he again aided the young man and his Den’Lastrian. The last we saw of him was at a slave market, again helping the Alliance’s experiment by refusing the man’s aid. Now, he’s on Seshinaar in…
Brienne goes live in SIX DAYS! Preorder is available HERE if you feel so inclined. I’m currently working on Izabel and hope to have it ready to go no later than the end of the year. After that, it’s a toss-up between a novella with Fieryl in the Edgeworld Chronicles series, starting the Ravyn’s book, or working on Jalayan, fourth in the Wolves of Sorrow series. This has been an insanely productive year for me,…
The story that sparked an entire universe, Subject 5691: Petri evolved from a prompt-based serial to a fun, steamy space opera romance between a lab-created soldier and an edgeworlder smuggler. Not sure if it’s for you? Check out the snippet below!