[Writing] is harder than you think. You'll be rejected often. If you do it for money, you'll quit. Love it or don't do it.

With young kids (I have four including the newborn) times passes weirdly for me.

My goal is to write stories that are connected, but not sequels in any meaningful sense. Like Howard's Conan tales or Leiber's Fahrrd & the Great Mauser stories.

I like to keep the world, to some degree, an implied setting.

Original work has no floor and no ceiling. You can reach essentially zero readers or millions.

Fantasy allows for less rigorous worldbuilding and more vigorous exploration of moral questions. Sci-fi is opp.

My favorite new character isn't new, but more fleshed out - Gadd, the alekeep at the Tunnel. He's got him some teeth and tats. His history is hinted at in Discourse, and I plan to explore it more in later books.