the small details

Posting some drawing samples here to use in queries I am preparing. First, a couple drawings for a picture book, Smiley Face Power ....

Wow. Clearly I had a burst of web energy back in 2023. I pushed and I set up this site and started adding content. The problem is, once I...

There is a moment, sometimes a recurring moment, in every unpublished author's life when it's time to stop revising and querying a...

(I'm not sure why they drew Bartimaeus looking like that on the cover when he never looks like that in the book.) I picked this book up...

At some point popularity merits attention. When the Twilight craze was nearing its peak I picked up the book to see what was powering...

Oppenheimer, summed up in four words: intense, complex, long, loud. Before I get to the story, I have to talk about those last two...

In The Phantom Spy, Phoenix has a serious issue with crowds: they terrify her. But to compete in her main hobby -- bot battling -- and to...

This one gets a 3.5 from me. It does a lot well, but a few parts knocked me out of the story. First the good. The writing and...

Still walking. Still writing. I've been here for a long time. I've seen shimmers of light that disappeared. Gotta adjust the backpack and...