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Hello all! The Copyright registration is complete, and the ISBNs have been ordered. We now have a release date of December 21st. Hey, just in time for Christmas! Hope everyone is as excited about the book as I am!! Drakin Synopsis: The nightmares never end for Radley Zall. After years of struggling for survival during the Red War, he finds himself deporting wayward dragons … Read More Drakin: The Orphans of Haven Update
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Hi Jim, I was wondering if you talk a little bit about how you create characters for your book. I’ve got an awesome idea for a story, but I’m having a hard time creating characters to go along with it. Do you have any advice? Thanks, Kris Hello Kris, In my personal opinion, you’re doing this backward. You’ve got a great story, but no … Read More Characters First, Stories Second.
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Hello all! So it’s been a couple of weeks now, it looks like sales are going well! Thanks BTW! So I know I haven’t been around in a while since I published Drakin and for that I do apologize. However I had some inspiration come my way… and actually managed to write out a full sequel in a matter of weeks. It’s really rough … Read More Drakin, where to buy, and what’s next?
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Drear Jim, I hope this finds you in good spirits! I was hoping you could help me out a little bit here. I’ve heard a lot of people talking about registering a work for copyright. There doesn’t seem to be a consensus as to whether or not you need to do it. Should I register my work or not? Thanks, Alex Hello Alex, Good … Read More To Register or Not to Register?
by Jim
Hello all! Just wanted to provide a few quick updates. The copyright info has been submitted. So we’re just letting the US Government do its thing now. We’re now just working on the registration and final publishing pieces. At this point, we’re looking at a soft release date of a January 2019. So not in time for Christmas… but I don’t think anyone’s ever … Read More Drakin: The Orphans of Haven Update
by Jim
Hello all! So it’s been a couple of weeks now, it looks like sales are going well! Thanks BTW! So I know I haven’t been around in a while since I published Drakin and for that I do apologize. However I had some inspiration come my way… and actually managed to write out a full sequel in a matter of weeks. It’s really rough … Read More Drakin, where to buy, and what’s next?
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I’m going to start off by saying that I’m aware that a lot of people are going to disagree with me on this one, but I find the idea of writing about time travel daunting. Why, you may ask? Because it’s a headache. Think about it, literally thousands of books addressing the problems of time travel in stories have been written. Some really good, … Read More Time Travel and Why You Shouldn’t Write About It!
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Hi Jim, As a fellow writer, I was wondering if you’ve ever reread your books and wished you could go back and change something. Like maybe the direction of a story or something like that. I’ve had a book published for a few years, and now that it’s done, I look back on it and have come up with a few different scenarios that … Read More The ‘What-if’ scenarios
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I think a lot of people are going to disagree with me on this one, and that’s fine. I don’t mind, in fact, I’d love to hear from you. However, in my view, fantasy romance stories are incredibly one-sided. What do I mean by that? Well simply that in romantic stories that involve a human and either supernatural elements or fantastic creatures (Elves, Dwarves, … Read More Opinion: Fantasy Romance is One-Sided.
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Hi Jim, How do you handle situations where you have two different ways a character can go? Right now, I’m sitting on a plot line where one of my characters is sitting at a crossroad. He can either choose to help the people he cares about or leave them to their own devices in order to save the bigger group. I’m not sure where … Read More Divergence In Storylines, Where to Go?
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Hi Jim, I wanted to ask you about one of your characters. I’m working on my own YA series and finished reading Magnifica a while ago. You mention in the book that Lia’na doesn’t age as fast as Toby. If they survive, she’ll roughly be the elven equivalent of a human’s late 40s when he dies. I really think that if you leave the … Read More Age Compatability in Characters (MAGNIFICA SPOILER WARNING!!)
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Hi Jim, I was hoping you could give me a little advice on how to write perspective. The main character in my story is going to be a bad guy. When I say bad, I mean the story is going to revolve around the villain. I’m just really not sure how I can write that effectively. I mean typically you try to get people … Read More Rooting for the Bad Guy
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