I’ve been dithering on how to make a start to this section, mostly because I’m a little fuzzy on the mechanics of doing this the way I want. For now, all the posts will go into one spot until I can figure out how to make the musings stay separated from the news. The important part is that I actually start!

Now… where to start. I suppose I could start with a shameless plug: Thank you to everyone who has read Spellweaver. If you’re just finding me now, go over to the Books section of the site and follow the links to your flavour of choice. If you’ve already bought the book, thank you again, and please write a review! Reviews help the algorithms that drive sales — so if you like it, tell the algorithms so that more people find my stuff.

But a sales-pitch doesn’t really count as musing, does it? So where do I really start? It has been a life-long dream of mine to have a book that people actually read, and hopefully like. So that’s where I guess I should start. I have been writing fiction of one sort or another pretty much since my early teens. Spellweaver is the first work I actually had the nerve to release into the world, but it certainly wasn’t the first thing to roll off my pen. Yes, I use a pen. If I hand-write the first draft, it makes it harder for me to get bogged down by constant self-editing. Better to save that for the second draft, which is where I type it out and fix things as I go along.

What I write has always been fantasy or sci-fi, but throughout all of my stories — from Fanfiction (yes, actually — somewhere on the web is my earliest stuff) to finished novel, I have always been drawn to the girl-meets-boy, happily-ever-after fairy-tale ending. There are some urban fantasy stories, some sci-fi, at least one steam-punk, and a Barsoom-esque adventure story which I’m labelling as science-fantasy because there’s more space-magic than science about it. As much as I called it something else, there has almost always been a romantic element in every story I’ve written. Except for the Barsoom-esque adventure story: that one is just pure adventure, with a bit of casual sex thrown in the mix, because if John Carter can do it, why couldn’t my female protagonist?

Have I piqued your interest? Fret not. There is a plan… well, less than 12% of a plan. Once I’ve finished writing the sequel to Spellweaver, I’m going to dust off some of those old manuscripts and see if I can make something of them as well. We’ll see how it goes, but at least a few of them must have some potential in there somewhere. There will no doubt be a lot of cringing as I reread what must’ve been the “coolest” thoughts to pass through my younger-self’s brain, but there you have it.

And voilà! I have made a start.