Naming conventions in fantasy take lots of forms. My goal in the Triempery series as I wrote it was to create a cohesive framework for...

The Hen Kyon people of the Kragh (Aryata hen kyon, ‘doglike’) are among the most ancient of the races of the Second Creation. They...

Khelds first appear early in the Triempery series, in Sordaneon. In that book they are seen primarily through Dorilian's rather hostile...

I can’t believe I haven’t done a lore post yet on the Rill Stone. It is only the first artifact to appear in the series and it appears in...

CONTENT WARNING: Blood and gore; violence. Sensitive readers might find parts of this story disturbing. Note to Triempery series readers:...

SPOILER WARNING: Reading this excerpt will mildly spoil the opening chapters of The God Spear. It will not spoil main plot points. But it...

This post might contain some spoilers for earlier books in the series, so consider yourself warned. The main goal of cover art is to draw...

Yes, I have been away from this website for a while. Sometimes life gets cluttered. Other times, however, it gets painful. I lost my...

Have you ever fallen hard for one (or more) of the less main characters in a book or series? You know the ones. Take Lord of the Rings:...

It started with this. One of the ideas tossed about for cover art for The Second Stone was this one of Dorilian and Hans in a standoff....

Some of the lore and artifacts of the Triempery have yet to be visited. Their time simply hasn’t come just yet. One of these is the...

Now that The Second Stone is being published next month, and three books in this six-book series will be out, readers might reasonably...

As my readers should know by now, I love talking about book covers--especially my own. Look at this one! Is that not a gorgeous cover? I...

Here is the first (well, actually second) excerpt I will be sharing from The Second Stone, Book 3 of the Triempery Revelations. The book...

I'm keeping this image large so you can all see more of it. If you're reading The Kheld King, this map would be useful in conjunction...

Sordan figures prominently in THE SECOND STONE. Much of the book is set there and readers are introduced to many facets of the City. Not...

Five Cities did the Leur folk raise, One of Sun and One of Moon… Readers of the Triempery series have seen the Five Cities brought up...

Dorilian Sordaneon’s paternal grandmother is not even named in Sordaneon. In The Kheld King, however, The Gracious Hierarchessa...

I said I would talk about scenes in The Kheld King that either gave me fits or were a hoot to write. Well, that time has come. This is...

This is the tip of an iceberg: a 190,00 word/540 page published novel that covers the lives of scores of characters for a period of 14...