Chapter Eight: “A Name” So, I feel like I’m becoming a bit of a Sanderson expert. I’ve read all of his published work except for his thesis and that new media tie-in piece he did, and I am acquainted with him from conventions, and I correspond with his assistant Peter from time to time. So, [...]

First off: Page 2 of The Legends of Tijervyn. Wee. I recently read the Alcatraz Smedry books by Brandon Sanderson, and I’ll go ahead and say yes, they are good. You should find them and read them. But this isn’t a review. Instead, I’m keying in on something that was brought up in the second [...]

Chapter Twenty One: Striking Back Penultimate, they call this chapter. I’ve always found that a funny word. It makes me think of a super hero that has a sidekick called PencilOrdinary. Just saying. So, although I write steampunk, more or less, one might notice there is sort of a bit of magic in this world. [...]

Chapter Fifteen: “From the Rubble” Small admin note: I’ll be toastmastering JordanCon this weekend, and I’ll also be running the Tor.com Wheel of Time community on twitter and facebook during it, as the normal wonderful lady that does is the convention chair and will be even more busy than me. Anyway. So, I promised a [...]

Chapter Fourteen: A Soldier’s Deal So, next week I’m going to put up a review of Peter Orullian’s “The Unremembered”. That is why this week gets to be what was going to be next week’s news-ish post thinger. See, this time next week, I’m going to be waking up in Atlanta and preparing for JordanCon [...]