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First novel contest: a chance to win beautiful illustrations from my first novel

Contest Alert! Get your friends to sign up for my Readers' Group, and get free stuff from me! If you get 5 people …

Recently I came across a fantastic work of art that fits beautifully into the aesthetic of the world of my novels. It’s called …

Friends! Mark your calendars. I'm publishing my first novel. The Song of the Sirin will be available for purchase online on July …

A major theme in my first novel, A Lamentation of Sirin, is the difficult relationship between Church and state. It seems clear to …

One of the more fascinating articles I've read recently is one about "untranslatable emotions" in different languages. I was …

A reader of my first attempt at writing a novel noticed that I seemed to be obsessed with the idea of American …

If you're anything like me, you usually don't bother making New Years' resolutions, because you never keep them. But for me, this …

Last Monday, the Russian Orthodox Church celebrated the day of Archangel Michael. It was doubly interesting that the day fell on a …

As I’ve begun to delve deeply into my second novel, I’m considering using the time of the year as a contrast to the characters’ …