Now on Patreon
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Now on Patreon

When Novel #2 and Tales From Tyrconnell #3 are ready, I’ll be posting chapters early for my members.

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First map of Tyrconnell
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First map of Tyrconnell

As I mentioned in another post, I’m a bit of a geography… “enthusiast.” I’ve got plans to create a map for Book 2 when it’s closer to release, so I’ve been practicing by building a map based off of locations in The Blighted Treasure, Reforging a Blacksmith and Wolf Hunt.

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Release schedule
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Release schedule

I’m writing Book #2! And another Tale From Tyrconnell. When will they be released?

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My unlikely journey toward ‘Scions’
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My unlikely journey toward ‘Scions’

Six months ago this seemed too far-fetched for a bucket list. On the final day of September I finished an 88,000-word first draft of a story that has rolled around my head for five years, first as a video game and later a concept album.

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Mapping out a plot
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Mapping out a plot

There have been few internet-based problems I couldn’t solve with Google Sheets and/or Google Earth (Pro). And in the cases where they didn’t solve the problem, they still helped find the solution.

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Will I owe native Irish readers an apology?
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Will I owe native Irish readers an apology?

The “Oirish” or “Oireland” trope is something I had been wary of while developing ideas for the game and the music, but there were guardrails along the way. In the end, a video game is a video game. Music is music.

A novel, however, is tens of thousands of words.

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