Recent content by ThinkerX

Well, at least you seem to miss out on most or all of the marketing stuff...

I am the guy who took multiple stabs at trying to solve the first six or eight steps of a modified version of the 'Drake Equation' using the best available data. Verdict: within 50 parsecs (roughly 165 light-years), there might be 4-6 Earth-like worlds and maybe triple that number of marginally...

Not just publishers and agents. ANYBODY who sends unsolicited offers is 99% likely to be a scammer. This includes 'best-selling authors' (I'm up to five of these so far this month), 'Book Club reps (ten or twelve this month), 'Masters of the Amazon algorithm' (plenty), and assorted 'placement...

From my writings, that would be 'Silam the Sorcerer' from my 'Empire' series. Silam and his 'brother,' Li-Pang, were avatars of Lovecraftian entities. But while Li-Pang was calm and rational, Silam was a monumentally arrogant, homicidal showman. He attempted to 'artistically' assassinate the...

Many of the reviews of my books cite their 'atmospheres,' pointing out how places like the Great Maze of Gawana or cities such as Corber Port or Ismara 'feel alive,' or are 'almost like characters' in their own right. Some of these comments extend to the overall settings. That said, some...

One of the 'art pieces' that I wanted to include in 'Exiles' but didn't was a necklace that was actually a map of the Strand.

In my worlds... The Solarian Empire sent out waves of explorers to map much of the known world... which amounts to about a 200-degree swath of the northern hemisphere from just below the Arctic Circle to 10-20 degrees below the equator. Past that... well, they know that some kingdoms extend...

600x800 is for Kindle use. My 600x800 maps did come out fine in the print version.

Thank you. The reason I asked is that one of the things I do at Mythic Scribes is to buy and review a book or two by our published authors. It might be a while before I get to yours.

You make writing a daily habit. Set aside a block of time for writing. In the old days, when I got stuck in the Muddy Middle, I'd take an old cooking timer, set it for an hour, nd do nothing but write until the bell rang, ignoring all plot, grammar, and character issues. You can fix a bad...

Hello! Are your books on Amazon? Titles? Links? That said, I write dark fantasy, with most of the books set in a tottering quasi-Roman Empire on another planet in the wake of the devastating Demon War. The characters struggle to forge new lives in a realm they no longer understand while...

Hello - The rule is to write at least a little every day, even when you don't feel like it, even when you think it is horrible. Often, resolutions and resolve will manifest after a few sentences.

'Qusi-Christians.' Monotheism without Christ. But they act a lot like the old Catholic Church. They have their own army, the poorly trained 'Livberators,' and issue their own currency. They do rule a few provinces outright, but take a back seat elsewhere. Their Grand Cathedral is built atop the...

The quasi-Roman Empire is monotheistic. However, there are a lot of Saints and Angels, some of whom wander in and out of the stories. Mostly, these are entirely spiritual beings who merge or occasionally possess voluntary hosts ('filled with the spirit'). The Church claims authority over all...

I used the old 2E AD&D 'Historical Earth' books as a base. Rome. Ancient Greece. Celts. Dark Ages. Vikings. Others. Mashed together to make a sort of warped (very) late-era Roman Empire. After a lot of back and forth, 'Magic' mostly became 'enhanced PSI,' genetically imbued into select humans...