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Howdy, everyone. As promised, I am back to tell you all about the tournament!

The short answer is, it was a blast and I did pretty damn good for a first timer.

The London HEMA Open was a two-day affair and included events like rapier and dagger, saber, and longsword. The Longsword categories (which is my weapon) were both on the auspicious Star Wars day. (May the fourth be with you.)

I sent my dad these posters to celebrate.

I woke up at the butt crack of dawn because the venu...

Howdy, everyone. As promised, I am back to tell you all about the tournament!

The short answer is, it was a blast and I did pretty damn good for a first timer.

The London HEMA Open was a two-day affair and included events like rapier and dagger, saber, and longsword. The Longsword categories (which is my weapon) were both on the auspicious Star Wars day. (May the fourth be with you.)

I sent my dad these posters to celebrate.

I woke up at the butt crack of dawn because the venu...

While you were reading The Unbroken, I was studying the blade.

With my first tournament coming up this week, I wanted to share a little bit about my sword fighting journey since so many of you have expressed an interest in it on the internet and in person.

How it Started

Like any good fantasy nerd, I’ve been a little bit obsessed with swords from the beginning. I’m sure The Sword in the Stone didn’t have anything to do with that at all. I could (and probably will one day) write an enti...

Hello, everyone!

I did not expect to be back in your inbox so soon. This is just a brief moment to drop you a time-sensitive notice.

From today April 23 – April 25, Barnes & Noble is doing their usual 25% off sale! So if you preorder a physical book or ebook, you get a whopping 1/4 off the price. And not just mine! A couple I might suggest are The Everlasting by Alix Harrow and The Mercy Makers by Tessa Gratton.

Just use the code:

PREORDER25Buy Fate’s BaneBuy The Sovereign ...

Judith Butler, the Definition of “Woman,” and That Oxford Panel

Howdy, everyone. Here with a newsletter that was always on the docket but is a little too timely for my taste. This is going to be a long one, so I’m going to get the events/announcements done early:

In Every Era: Lesbian Histories of Care @ Common Press Books, Thursday 24 April @ 19:00 – This event is for Lesbian Visibility Week and we’ll be celebrating lesbian chosen families, like resistance groups and mentorships.In C...

I got a new keyboard this week. It’s an ergonomic split keyboard with an ortholinear (or columnar it you want to get really granular) setup and is tiltable and programmable and who knows what else. Oh, and fun. And currently, because I am also taking the switch up opportunity to learn a new keyboard layout, very very slow.

I’m doing all this because, not for the first time, I found myself racking up high word volume days and walking away with achey wrists. It was especially bad during the cou...

You asked for Touraine and Luca BOTH on the cover and…well, you can never say I don’t deliver.

I mean, would you look at that? Just look at it!

Give it up for Tommy Arnold and Lauren Panepinto, everybody.

The last book in a trilogy with covers as stunning as The Unbroken and The Faithless needed to go out with a bang. And as hard as it will be to follow the absolute foaming madness you guys went into when you saw Luca’s manspread (tweets here and here), I think we managed to end on ...

Mostly about creative process and Warmongers. Plus updates.

Howdy, all!

Somehow, it’s already March in this year that feels so massive. And yet, it’s still not September. I’m too old now to try and rush time (or at least, I tell myself this in the hopes of learning patience). But writing and athletic pursuits have inured me to the slow passage, to incremental growth. A mile happens on step at a time. A novel, one word after another.

I’ve been telling myself this a lot lately, as I try to break deep...

Quickly, An Opportunity for a Bad Romance on Feb 13

Howdy, folks!

Freshly back from my time in Kansas eating all the BBQ and homemade chocolate chip cookies I could stand (which, trust me, was a lot).

While I had a lovely time visiting my old campus and there is a video of the talk I gave, a full recap will have to wait. I have come primarily to apprise you of one thing:

Tomorrow, I’ll be doing a livestream with the Story Engine folks on building complicated, conflicted relationships (romances and m...

I am content…are you?

Hello hello, my tough and tender folks and welcome to a new year! Not even a month in and it already proves to be one of change and upheaval, and no one can truly predict what’s coming. But, like any busy person with things I want to accomplish, I sat down at the beginning of the year to reflect upon the last and try to predict the future! Or rather, to make some brave attempt to plan for it. Or more foolhardy, to control it. Bold, indeed.

But we cannot control anything but w...