Writers: SERVE YOUR AUDIENCE
– NOT YOUR CRITICS

Writing can be a lonely endeavour.  Even more so, writing can leave a person feeling exposed. In an attempt to safeguard myself from criticism my best advice to readers is, If you find yourself reading my novel and not enjoying it then please stop reading – after all, suffering is optional. My best advice to writers is, focus on finding and serving your audience – rather than on engaging the critics. 

I find comfort in believing that, across the English reading world, I might find an audience that will enjoy the writing I have to offer.

Before I wrote the Fleck series, I wrote two of the three Corinth novels. I paused that work to write the Fleck series hoping it would be well received, because it includes fantasy characters readers might expect to encounter (e.g., wizards, elves, dragons, fairies, ogres, unicorns, and dwarves) all seen from a human perspective.

I’ve returned my attention to the Corinth novels and anticipate having them available in late 2024 early 2025.  In the novels Fades are a long-lived self-ruled race that can shift between worlds. Historically, two or more Fades would battle for dominance on a world, evoking destructive conflicts between the inhabitants.  The practice of waring for pre-eminence is now banned in favour of harmony. When the state of calm is challenged, Corinth (niece to a Fade) is enticed with the promise of independence into discovering the guilty party(s).  As, I’ve not yet written the third novel – the less mentioned now the less mended later.

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