I’m currently working on the ending (which with me can mean I still have hundreds of pages to write) of The Navigator’s Children, book three of the current Osten Ard story. I’m always trying to balance what I know readers want—resolution, and at least some version of a happy ending—with the desire to keep things realistic, which means balancing the good with the bad. Continue reading
I’m at a really interesting place in Last King of Osten Ard right now, in the middle-ish parts of Book 2 (Empire of Grass), because from here until the second half of the Book 3 (The Navigator’s Children) I don’t really know what’s going to happen. Continue reading
In interviews and at readings, I have often talked about how weird and interesting it is to write really long stories. This time may be the weirdest and most interesting yet. Continue reading
Tad´s latest newsletter on writing Hard Fantasy and research. Plus an Osten Ard update on The Heart of What Was Lost and more. Continue reading
Greetings from Casa De Constant Crisis, home of me, Deb, and the two Younger Things, as well as several overstimulated dogs and (in their tiny minds, anyway) underappreciated cats. Continue reading