Well, it's that time of the year again where I look at what's been announced for 2026 and clap my hands in glee. I spend wayyy too much money on books (no such thing, I know, but I have to keep up pretenses that I'm fiscally responsible while in a book store) but when you … Continue reading Books I’m Excited About — 2026 Edition
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TO TREAD OBSIDIAN SHORES — Snippet 2
Coming January 2026 The chair was comfortable, far more so than anything Diego was used to. For the first time his eyes darted around the room, taking it all in and understanding very little of it. It wasn’t decorated like any room he’d been in before. There were three flags hanging on poles behind the … Continue reading TO TREAD OBSIDIAN SHORES — Snippet 2
Authors You Should Be Reading – Part 1: R.R. Virdi
Courtesy of the author's website "Who the fuck is R.R. Virdi?" you might be asking yourself, having stumbled upon this website at 2:00AM while doom-scrolling social media (it's cool, we've all been there). I'm glad you are here asking that very question. Because if you're not asking, well, it's probably that you've already read his … Continue reading Authors You Should Be Reading – Part 1: R.R. Virdi
Books I’m Looking Forward To In 2025
Yeah, every writer is still a reader (at least, usually), and we're fans of other people's writings. 2025 promises to be a good year for readers, and here are the top 4 books I'm really looking forward to reading in 2025. SHADOWS UPON TIME by Christopher Ruocchio (DAW Books, Book 7 of the Suneater series) … Continue reading Books I’m Looking Forward To In 2025
The State of the Solo Debut Mainstream Novel
The heading isn't misleading. I just wanted to talk about my first solo foray (we're not counting collaborations here, or anthologies) into mainstream publishing after **coughcough** years in indie and small press. More importantly, why I'm not regretting it, but why I also am still not going fully trad in the coming years. First of … Continue reading The State of the Solo Debut Mainstream Novel
LFG!! Salvage Purgatory Release Weekend
Quick cancer update: still recovering from surgery. Had some massive bleed-through the day after surgery and had to go back to the surgeon (I warned them I was a bleeder) to get the wound site redressed. Since then, been a pretty smooth-ish recovery journey so far. Sitting sucks, laying down is uncomfortable, and standing isn't … Continue reading LFG!! Salvage Purgatory Release Weekend
2024 Imadjinn Award
So the word came in that Larry Correia and I won an Imadjinn Award for our novel Monster Hunter Memoirs: Fever in the category of Best Urban Fantasy novel last night at the Imaginarium Convention. I've attached part of their press release below. The Imaginarium 2024 Awards Banquet was held last evening, where the winners … Continue reading 2024 Imadjinn Award
What Does the Author Read?
If you asked my teachers during my "formative" years, I wasn't much of a reader. Oh, I read books that I had to, mostly because English classes required it. To this day I still have a profound hatred for Ernest Hemingway's The Old Man and the Sea, thanks to an overzealous high school English teacher. … Continue reading What Does the Author Read?
Cover Reveal (Again)
AND THEN IT GOT WEIRD... from Blood Moon Press, edited by Jamie Ibson. My short story, "THE HAUNTING OF DEEP ELEVEN, is featured within. Due date of October 22, 2021. Get ready for everything from terrifying fantasy to weird and wonderous science fiction, with everything in between. Coming October 22, 2021
Layers In A Novel
This whole "staying off social media" thing is working out pretty nicely, for the most part. My productivity has skyrocketed over the past month, with January coming in at a cool 63,000 words written for the month alone. February is already on pace to surpass that mark, even with three fewer days. Granted, I'm not … Continue reading Layers In A Novel
Good Versus Evil
One of the really cool things about being a reader as well as a writer is to go back and read those who inspired you when you were younger. To be whisked away to faraway and magical lands of adventure. Of dragons and knights, of the entire escapism which, to me, is what epic fantasy … Continue reading Good Versus Evil
The Unlucky Few
I've been backing away from social media this past week in order to focus on the Epic Fantasy novel and I actually became far more productive. Weird, that. It's almost as if social media is nothing but a time sink. Weird, right? I hit the usual halfway point in regards to word count but I … Continue reading The Unlucky Few
Libertycon 32 AAR — Blond Edition
Libertycon 32 technically ended Sunday, but quite a few of us hang out until Monday to see old friends and catch up with new ones (you'd be amazed at how many new friends you can walk out of this convention with). Since a lot of us also do the "Well, let's get there Thursday to … Continue reading Libertycon 32 AAR — Blond Edition
Wronged Way
Cedar had an interesting post yesterday over at the Mad Genius Club (I actually missed the original post because I've been buried by basketball and finishing a book) and after reading it, I got to thinking (run! hide the women and children! he had two brain cells crash into one another on accident!) about professionalism … Continue reading Wronged Way
The Dragon Awards
The inaugural Dragon Awards (hosted by Dragoncon, the biggest party for nerds in the entire southeastern U.S.) went off smashingly. I can't wait for them to release the results numbers so we can see just how many people actually voted. I'm going to throw out a number and say... hmm... 10,000. While that may seem … Continue reading The Dragon Awards
Jason Córdova 