

#SPFBO Author Interview with Catharine Glen
This week’s #SPFBO Author Interview is with Catharine Glen. Catharine is an independent fantasy author residing in New England. As a child, she loved creating stories about distant lands filled with adventure and mystery. She was probably one of the only students who actually liked writing academic reports, and as an adult discovered she had a knack for technical writing. Returning to her first passion—fiction—is like reliving a part of her childhood. What drew you to self-pu


Character by any other name: Subverting character archetypes
Over the last few months, I’ve been watching a lot of anime. And by a lot, I mean hours and hours as I pre-screen shows for my ten-year-old son. He’s at that awkward age where many of the Y-7 shows are too immature for him (boring and stupid according to him), but the Y-14 contain themes that he’s not quite ready for. There have been moments over the last few months where I roll my eyes at the similar plot lines and story tropes, the campy drama and teenage romance. But, ther


#SPFBO Author Interview with James Jakins
This week’s #SPFBO Author Interview is with James Jakins. James is a South African born writer with an American accent because children are cruel and laughed at the way he said orange. He was the last kid in his class to learn to read, so once that was remedied he quickly made up for lost time and read everything he could get his hands on. He now reads way better than all of them, except that one person who will always be smarter than him. They know who they are. Eventually,


Sneak Peek Week
It’s Sneak Peek Week! More from A Sea Like Glass set to release later this year. Demons are real, and they are hunting for Ris. A talented healer and one of the Lady’s descendants, Ris carries a secret that could lead to her losing more than her life. She could lose her soul. As the last of the Lady’s vessels, Ris goes on the run from demons sent by the forces of Darkness with a paladin whose past is shrouded in controversy and the former thief who had a hand in raising her.