history

Stories Underfoot…

I enjoy the part where I take a rough draft and shine it up… The finishing. The top coat. Tease out the story from all the ideas. Part exploration, part investigation, it’s a reminder how stories are everywhere if you just look hard enough…

Grappling with the Past to Move into the Future

When I set out to write Ace Grant, I wanted to create a wholly American mythology. It needed to reflect our history, not simply write another Western European transplant of faye courts and vikings. Magic existed here long before those cultures arrived. Our story then is one of a fusion of cultures amid a migration full of triumph and tragedy.

Complex, sure. But I knew one thing. The protagonists? They didn’t look like me…