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A Night of Frivolity
What I’m Writing Next
Blood Talk Blog
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Blood Talk Blog

Where I get my thoughts out and update the world!

The New Year & A New Focus On My Vampires

January 1, 2023

I’m choosing, with this round of storytelling, to dive into ‘harder topics,’ and things I want to write about. I want to give my worlds more nuance, my characters more stakes, and hopefully more heart. I write for everyone but I cannot deny my experiences–Black experiences–are what have shaped me and should shape my writing. I’m adamant about this because of the erasure of my Black characters in THE DARK WORLD series by white readers.

‘THE TALES OF SINNER SHARPE: DARK WATERS’ Excerpt: Bats

May 6, 2022

This helped shape the nature of the story: Sinner is an outcast from this island. He has no magical ability, same as all from Othril, and when on the mainland, this lack of magical ability is apparent—he is ostracized not only because of his physical dark features, but his inability.

DRACULA is (finally) out in E-Book Format!

February 25, 2022

If you haven’t opened your email by now (and why aren’t you subscribed to the newsletter, yet?) then you don’t know that DRACULA: Book 6, the final book in The Dark World series has been released!

New Site, New Look, Same Ol’ S.C.!

December 31, 2021

Just a quick update from you to me!

Excerpt from Current Vampire-Pirate Work in Progress, SINNER SHARPE

July 3, 2021

A taste of the new fantasy world I’m conjuring! Some explanation before we jump into it: I started writing this series several years ago, after getting inspired by Glen Cook’s THE BLACK COMPANY series. I wanted to write about a swashbuckling mercenary who has the job of a lifetime, I just couldn’t get the stakes right. If you were a patron of mine, then you know all about Sinner Sharpe and how it went from strictly a pirate fantasy adventure to a vampire-infested pirate…horror adventure. You see, I was stuck on it for years — unable to get past Chapter 1. Literally the other…

New Fantasy Series. Pirates and Vampires?

June 26, 2021

So I’ve been struggling with JUDGMENT if you haven’t been paying attention to my most recent writing-related tweets, and after talking with fellow author Elana Mudgan about our books and fantasy in general, I’m really eager to get started on the fantasy series that I started to write during finishing up THE DARK WORLD series.THE TALES OF SINNER SHARPE.If you’ve followed me for a while, you know I’ve been writing a mercenary/pirate story for a long time. Well now, I’ve decided to put JUDGMENT on the side and focus my time on Sinner Sharpe.A lot of changes are taking place.For…