Palimia is one of those characters who sneak into a book. You know the ones, they come to your house as the guest of a person you invited, and you end up liking them. The person you know just well enough to be able to say you know they exist. And then one day your car breaks down at a local store, and you need a jump. So you look around and there they are. Waving from their car. So you ask for a jump, or a lift, or to use their cell phone. And just like that they become part

I’m introducing a new category of blog posts in which I talk about some of the characters in the Triempery Revelations novels. These...

Readers encounter the Seven Houses , the Rill cartel based in Dazunor-Rannuli, in Sordaneon , early in the Triempery series. But who are...

It’s been an amazing journey, seeing how enthusiastically the first two books, Sordaneon and The Kheld King, of the Triempery Revelations...

SPOILER ALERT! Do NOT read this post if you want to read The Kheld King without foreknowledge of events. This blog post includes so many...

Now that readers are starting to dig into THE KHELD KING, here’s what will be coming to this website and blog. * In a month or two I...

Seven Springs in Agalor is the most famous poem of Issahan, Lahgael's national poet. This poem first appears in The Kheld King, when...

In 2/185, the city of Gignastha was founded on the shore of the poisoned lake Sar’Pryannis by the Highborn prince Deben Sordaneon, who...

Thaa knelt and gathered a handful of that pitiful flaked earth into one hand, let it dribble from cupped fingers into a little pile. Thaa...

When I wrote The Kheld King, I had a few goals. First, of course, was to create the bridge narrative between the events of Sordaneon and...

Just for yucks and giggles, I'm going to show how the process of editing looks and feels to the author. I will use an example from The...

Anyone familiar with me will know I love art. On my travels I seek out art museums and the shops of local artists. When I attend cons, I...

This artifact is the oldest of any in the Triempery Revelations and is the only one not to have originated with Leur or the Three. It is...

This item is mentioned for the first time in Sordaneon, where readers see it being worn by Marc Frederick. Unlike the other two Highborn...

This will be the last excerpt from The Kheld King I will put up before its release. Some sales sites will soon have first chapter or...

I just turned the manuscript for Book 3, The Second Stone, over to my publisher. This means I like the additions/deletions I made and...

I also added this map to the Maps tab on the site. I figure readers might want to pull it up for reference when reading the ebook, which...

I got the idea for doing this from reading this piece by Justin Currie. If you don’t know of Justin Currie, he’s the lead singer and...

I didn't talk about the Sordaneon cover because I didn't have a website at the time. Now that I do have a website, I will talk about this...

The Rill Stone and the Wall Stone appear frequently in conjunction with the Entity-bound Highborn princes. Though often called devices or...