People always say, celebrate the small victories so today I am sharing one. My draft has finally reached 15,000 words! I know that sounds pathetic considering it will likely be 60,000 words in the end, but it has been such a struggle just to get to this point. May 1 2022, some friends and I took over managing a horse farm, or so we thought. It was in fact, taking over us! Much of the last month has been spent getting the farm organized and functional so BUA had to take a bac

This is far from finished but I am excited to show the initial draft of The Besieged Unicorn Army of Ryk's cover. I am working with Kerstina from 99Designs https://99designs.ca/profiles/kerstina She created the original Dragonsown cover and I couldn't wait to reach out and continue this design journey. At first it was hard to convey that these are not your stereotypical, beautiful, fairy tale unicorns that befriend virgins and grant wishes. They are kickass warriors who aren'

This is a small piece of the first chapter of The Besieged Unicorn Army of Ryk. I am hoping to have the book completed by year end :) If you like it, please let me know if you would like to be an ARC reader. Note- this is not edited! Dragon scat. Ember’s delicate nostrils flattened with disgust. While it wasn’t in view, the smell of it carried for long distances. Ember snorted and angrily tossed his mighty head; this meant the boundary was not being respected. The dragons had

Back in March I read a really insightful book, The Plot Thickens by Noah Lukeman. Unfortunately after finishing and doing all the plot strengthening and character building exercises, I decided I wanted to make some changes to Dragonsown. 4 months and 4500 more words later, the overhaul has finally been finished. Some of the changes I worked on were implementing the "Show, Don't Tell" concept- placing more emphasis on the reader coming to their own conclusions of how the chara

Today I submitted my second query to a publisher. It seems like this is going to be a different experience every time. For this one I needed to include a synopsis which was new for me because even though I've technically written a book, I've never written a synopsis. Many YouTube videos later, I think I came up with a decent effort and I thought of even posting it here but since it includes a ton of spoiler alerts, I am just going with the query blurb itself. This gives a bit

I think I was in love with historical buildings and sites before becoming interested in the paranormal. It seemed like a natural progression. I could check two boxes at once, my appreciation for history and for ghost stories. When I travel, I always try to book a haunted tour or historical pub crawl or both! Some locations I've toured: New Orleans, Seattle Underground, Chicago, Fredericton, Gettysburg, Salem, San Francisco, Ottawa, even Hobart, Tasmania. Pictured here is Casc

After writing 7000 words of the Dragonsown sequel, I became obsessed with the idea of a unicorn army. So much so, that every time I tried to brainstorm for the sequel, all that would pop into my head would be 'unicorn army.' So fine, I've shelved part 2 for now and I am 1000 words into what will be the Dragonsown prequel, The Besieged Unicorn Army of Ryk. And go figure, now I am stuck. What I've found has really helped me is doing a mind map, basically write down one idea in