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The Business of Writing Only Begins with Writing
In the business of writing, writing — in many respects — is surprisingly the easiest part.
As a child, I discovered that writing fiction — sci-fi and fantasy — brought me joy. I’ve always had an active (overactive, maybe) imagination. Channeling my imagination from playing pretend — imagining my swing set as a starfighter, creating Star Wars adventures with my action figures, building LEGO spaceships, and otherwise — into writing provided for a productive creative outlet.
As I got older, writing here, a little writing there, I continued to create new worlds and adventures. Over time, that opened an opportunity to get a couple of short stories published in a pair of anthologies. That opportunity would lead me to self-publishing.
I would go on to self-publish the first two YA fantasy novels of my Source Chronicles series, and the first novel of my Vapor Rogues Steampunk series (adding to the aforementioned short story published in the pirates and magic anthology Spells and Swashbucklers) in 2014.
In September 2015, I began what would evolve into my Void Incursion sci-fi series. This began as my process always did at that point — by the seat of my pants. I started to build characters and situations, which in turn evolved into a…
