Author Archives: KJT
Well, I’ve outdone myself at last. Today, in an even longer than usual eight and a half hour writing session, I wrote a ridiculous 34 pages and finished book 13. It took me one month and five days – a new record! It came in at 202 typed pages, 115,325 words and 25 chapters. I… {read more}
Kids don’t have amazing imaginations. Having worked in an after school care program for about six years, I of course learned quite a bit about children – and not just how to supervise them (it’s almost impossible). A common myth about kids is that they’re imaginative. Yep, when you’re a kid it’s all magical fairies… {read more}
Today, during a marathon 7-hour session at my undisclosed writing spot, I hit page 145 in The Burning Death. I estimate that two or three more sessions like that should be enough to finish the book. I am on fire, baby! Perhaps one day in the quite literal sense if I keep bragging like this.… {read more}
Today I adopted a second rat to be Puzzle’s cagemate. He’s also a male, of course, and where Puzzle is a teenager by rat standards, the new guy is just a baby. The size difference between them is pretty striking, which is why I’ve been referring to them as “the Fach and the Fawr”, which… {read more}
While I was at the Supanova in Melbourne I recorded a video interview with Dark Matter fanzine, which I very much enjoyed doing. Now, after some editing, that interview is available for you to see for yourself. There’s also an accompanying article, which has been impressively well-researched (I knew people would be put off by… {read more}
I have now started book thirteen and am getting through it at an alarming rate. In the meantime, the publisher is currently looking at trilogy number three so there should be some news on that front within the next month or so. Here is a picture of me aged five, playing with a snake. I… {read more}
Today I adopted a new rat, who I have named Puzzle. Here is a picture of him looking nervous in his new cage. On a related note, this is my current backdrop. Most people would probably find this picture horrifying, but to me it’s the equivalent of a basket of fuzzy kittens. There’s no accounting… {read more}
Today I finished book twelve, The Serpent’s Bite, which is the final installment of the Eastern Horizon trilogy, aka trilogy number four. I finished it in about two and a half months, which is pretty good by my standards. It clocked in at 120, 618 words and 208 pages, though of course that might change… {read more}
So April is over, and the cons are done with, and I can finally rest – and do some writing again, which is just as well, because the substantive edit for The Shadow’s Heart is due back this month. Three cons. Two Supanovas, and a Conflux/Natcon to follow. How do I sum it all up?… {read more}
