Jake's Blog

Over the next few months I will be doing a ten part series on characters in writing. Today’s post, part one, will deal with the v...

Writing a novel is a marathon—it’s not something you can bang out in an afternoon or a long weekend. It takes persistence and foc...

I don’t like to lie to people. I also generally don’t like to make people uncomfortable, unless it is productive in some way. I a...

In 2003 I finished my first full length novel. It was an epic fantasy--the first in a trilogy--and it was 167, 000 words. I then ...