“…the most beautiful dream and the most terrible nightmare all at once.”

All four of my novels published originally by Omnium Gatherum now have new editions published by me on Amazon.

I see lots of complaints from writers about getting reviews that say that their characters are not likable or the same said of characters in movies and TV shows and I wondered is that really a problem, and I’m increasingly thinking that the real problem is that the term “likable” isn’t very precise.

With the slow death of Twitter, I’ve been trying some of the new social media to see what might be a replacement.

I’ve written before about magic systems in stories, particularly in my most recent novel, Union Station. I’ve been thinking a lot recently about how writing is as close as I come to magic in reality.

When I approached writing my latest novel, Union Station, I wanted to make the magic an interesting part of the story. And so I thought for a long time about how magic works in stories, what other media included interesting systems of magic, and how I could utilize that in my writing.

My latest novel, Union Station, is set largely in the Los Angeles area and much of that is focussed in my hometown, Long Beach, California.