Been quiet here lately. Not for lack of love, life just got busy in the New Year. Lot’s of changes happening professionally that have, unfortunately, slowed down progress on some of my writing projects. Mostly good things, but change is often painful while its happening. I’ve recently been submitting short stories to literary magazines again. I’ll be incredibly excited to share the news of any success if or when that finally happens.

Hello out there my weary Way-walkers! If this message has made it to your eyes, ears, tongue or any other sensuous sensory input that tickles your brainstem, find yourself some place to settle in a little while, we’ve got good things coming your way. Thank you for tuning in Constellara, you’re here with Pathwadio. Come with us for a stroll through the university gardens of Astrent to set the mood.

This has been a hard review for me to write. Not because I didn’t enjoy the book or have unkind things to say; in fact its the opposite, it’s difficult for me not to gush about this book. Another concern was some statements I am going to make that I needed to wait until the end of the year to confirm. Let’s begin. Some Desperate Glory by Emily Tesh is a space opera story set in a universe where humanity lost.

Introduction Genre: High Fantasy Word Count: 3700 Words Banished and betrayed by his homeland, the Exile searches for redemption in the wreckage of a world he failed to save. The Exile was first published in December 2024. This story is set in the world of Crystal Empire. The Exile Turquoise, Reign of the Second 994th God Emperor The gentle rocking of the little wooden rowboat in the lake along with the soft splashing of oars in the water that evening was almost relaxing.

A Slow Walk Through a Beautiful Garden. The Jasmine Throne by Tasha Suri is a wonderful, beautifully written book. I was bored through most of it. That isn’t necessarily the fault of the author, I suspect it has more to do with my own expectations and preferences for pacing. However, I felt as though a large portion of the book was spent watching characters naval-gaze. This book definitely qualifies as a slow burn in my categorization.

Writing is hard. Not in the way that manual labor is hard, or even in the way that a puzzle or a level in a video game can be hard. Instead, writing is hard like getting in shape is hard, like therapy is hard, like your job is hard. Sometimes success pours out of you, and others you can’t get even the simplest of results. You get stuck, and making progress might as well be impossible.

It’s been an eventful few months for me. I started off the year with a lot of energy and excitement to be writing again. I still am, but I’ve had to delay a lot of the writing for almost the entire past three months. Why? Because life, that’s why. A lot has happened in the past three months. moved across the country joined an exciting, fast moving project at work officially in toddler mode now Reviewing Spring of Black Flowers was enlightening.

Introduction Genre: High Fantasy Word Count: 4000 Words For your reading pleasure is an early look into an early chapter of The Crystal Empire, my upcoming epic fantasy project. It is a rought draft, and things will likely change between this and the published version. This chapter is the first from the perspective of our heroine, Demara, and serves as an introduction to world beyond the Wall, a wild edge of the world known as the Fringe.

I did it again. I started blogging, then dropped off the face of the earth for like… eight weeks. Usually it’s more. Sorry? I tend to overcommit and stretch myself thin. I have too many priorities, and when I have to chose, I tend to pick my most personal objectives last. I haven’t been writing much fiction since the new year, despite how energized I was by everything going in. A lot of things have been in flux, all of it good.

Introduction Genre: High Fantasy Word Count: 2100 Words For your reading pleasure is an early look into an early chapter of The Crystal Empire, my upcoming epic fantasy project. It is a rought draft, and things will likely change between this and the published version. This chapter server as the prologue, and centers around Tulian, God Emperor of all creation as he dies before he is supposed to. Tulian Tulian, the nine hundred and ninety fourth Emperor, Lord and God of Creation, Father of All, Whose Will Was Supreme, was dying.