In another senseless conquest by Father Time, today marks the 15th anniversary of The Obsidian Key, Book Two of The Legend of Asahiel. To commemorate the occasion, we’ll be giving away 15 signed copies of the original, first edition hardcover via random drawing at the end of the month. To enter the drawing for a …
In its August 2020 edition, Publishers Weekly posted the following review of The Ukinhan Wilds: Thompson (The Sundered Isle) kicks off his Warder series with this adrenaline-charged fantasy adventure. While searching for a passage at sea, rogue swordsman Kylac Kronus chances upon a promising quest when he rescues sailor Sallun from a traitorous band of …
As some may recall, way back in the spring of 2013, my brother Neil shot his first full-length feature film, The Thin Line. After four years of exhaustive post-production, and two years on the independent festival circuit, I’m pleased to announce that The Thin Line is finally available for viewing on Amazon Prime Video. Prime …
One benefit of having a filmmaker for a brother and an award-winning film editor as a friend is their ability to take a handful of still images and turn them into something, well, a bit more cinematic. So my thanks go out to Neil Thompson and Eric Powell for cobbling together the following book trailer …
And just like that, it’s been ten years since the Legend of Asahiel was published. Not the beginning, mind you, but the conclusion. Ask me how old I’m feeling today…
Merry Christmas! And what better way to celebrate Frosty, Rudolph, jolly ol’ Saint Nicholas, and the birth of baby Jesus… than with a story about a brash but well-intentioned teenage rogue who has an unfortunate tendency of cutting down anyone in his path? Misaligned as it may be with this magical season of charity and …
On the heels of The Ukinhan Wilds, the second book in the Warder trilogy is now officially available. Anyone interested in the further adventures of Kylac Kronus can read the prologue, order online, or request autographed copies here.
Another artist to whom I owe a significant debt of thanks is the talented Paul Carpenter. Paul is perhaps best known as the proprietor of PompousPets.com, where he is commissioned to illustrate real pets in fantastical portraits. However, he took time out from these and other artistic endeavors to provide the cover art for the …
While the art needs of most authors begin and end with the cover image, fantasy authors know that the next thing readers expect is a map of their fictional world. Tolkien had maps, and so every one of us writing in the post-Tolkien era is expected to have them as well. This may not scare …
Because readers can and do judge a book by its cover, every author knows how important it is to find the right artist for any given project. I believe this to be particularly true for fantasy fiction projects, where the artist must seek to evoke lands, characters, creatures, and talismans not to be found in …
