The Lost Gods: Because I Have a Story I Want to Tell
Winter of 2000, I was playing outside in the snow. As I played, I made up a game in my mind. This game turned into 5 books and 20 years....
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J.M Robison,
Fantasy where heroes don't follow the rules
The Only Species Known to Destroy Itself is Humanity
Brave for me, J.M. Robison, an otherwise obscure fantasy author, to say that, huh? I went camping 3 months ago. I went camping for a...
A Journaling of Why I'm no Longer with my Publisher
***My point with this journal entry is not to complain about my publisher, but to explain why I am no longer a published author on 14...
Accessibility Statement for J.M. Robison
This is an accessibility statement from J.M. Robison. Conformance status The Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) defines...
The Dangers (and Courtesies) of "Feedback" for Incomplete Manuscripts.
This post is specific to the dangers and courtesies of asking for feedback on a manuscript that is not complete. (I address the dangers...
We Were Not Born Broken
This post written 100% by human. (My Anti-AI promise here.) A POEM CALLED "WHAT HURTS?" Foot. Back. Hip and knee. Ankle, shoulder--no...
My Anti-AI Promise
RULES: Humans only ChatGPT and all other AI will never, never, never touch anything of mine. Everything, from my newsletters, to my blog,...
Paragon Forgotten Chapter 1
Diviners claim the universe created both Paragons, male and female, from the cataclysm of two crashing stars. - Creation of Mortal Earth...
The "Heartbeat" Behind Paragon Forgotten
16-year-old Cohthel, a human, should have visited Father’s grave sooner because now it’s missing. Paragon Forgotten is the first book in...
Why Writers Should not Allow AI to Write for Them
Learn more about AI here. It's not even the legal controversy that's got me rankled. This is a real-life Walle. In the cartoon, humans...
How to Write a Realistic Prison Guard Character (Hollywood gets this wrong)
I worked as a Deputy Sheriff for 7 years over three different counties. If you would like to write a character who is a prison guard or...
Authors, The Reviews Are Not For You
What IS the point of reviewing books? From nasty to helpful, why do reviewers feel compelled to say anything at all? If you review, what...
Don't Write for Money. Write Because You Have a Story to Tell.
I see an upsetting attitude toward writing, and that attitude is "Don't write the 2nd book in the series until the publisher accepts the...
Why You’re in a Reading Slump and How to Break From it.
How did you get to this point? You LOVE books… don’t you? Maybe you’re afraid you don’t love books anymore because the last three that...
Proud to be a woman!
Gotta be a woman, even on a military deployment to U.A.E.
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