Yearly Archives: 2021

When the Goddess Wakes

With the trilogy complete and soon-to-be available on bookstore shelves, reviews are starting to roll in. I hope you’ll help spread the word!

I just saw a new one come in from Andrew Mather at Quill to Live. He began by telling people they needed to stop sleeping on the series, and concluded with: ” the three books in The Ring-Sworn Trilogy add up to a winning equation, and I think the series is criminally under-read. Jones has gifted me with one of my favorite casts of characters of the last few years and I am very much excited to see what he does next. If you like sword and sorcery fantasy, you are doing yourself a great disservice if you don’t check these out – especially now that the third and final book is out.”

In other news, I’ve been out and about talking about the series, my writing, favorite books, Tales From the Magician’s Skull, and my new not-so-secret writing project. You can find those interviews

Here, at Dicegeeks

And over here, at FanFiAddict.

Coming up, I’m scheduled to have an AMA over at Reddit Fantasy on September 3rd. I’ll have links as that gets closer.

As always, please help spread the word! I want more readers!

 

 

Farewells

July 30th we had to bury an old family friend. Sometimes you have a pet, and sometimes you have a friend who happens to be a dog, and that’s how it grew to be with Keena.

The shelter found her on the streets alone at around two months, and we adopted her and brought her into the family. She remained just a little nervous for years and years, but eventually grew to be confident and, later in life, even assertive.

Most dogs are alike on many basic levels, so it always surprises me how very different they can be on that template. I mean, most love their walks and are happy to see you when you’ve been gone, and they live to go out and smell things. But they still have individual personalities and develop their own habits and some are simply just more fun to be around, like Keena, who so easily brought us smiles. When Keena was really happy she’d go and grab her red rubber bone and frolic around with it. Later in life she’d get your attention and lead you to the red carpet in the kitchen, where we finally figured out that she wanted to wrestle. Only on that rug, though. Nowhere else in the house would do.

A New Year

Yesterday I finished reviewing copyedit changes on book 3, wrote my dedication and acknowledgments, and returned When the Goddess Wakes to St. Martin’s. I’ll see it again after it goes through proofreading, and then not again until I see advanced proofs. I’m pleased with it, and I think you’ll like it. It should be on bookstore shelves at some point this summer, and I’ll make sure to alert everyone when that’s about to happen.

It’s been a rough year for a lot of people, and I’m not going to bore you with too many details of the negative here, because I know so many who have suffered a great deal worse. Before it was clear to us here at the tower just how bad things might get with the virus it looked for a time that we’d have to relocate, but my wife found a wonderful new job here in town after having to leave her former position, and she was able to start work at the new place by the late autumn. So, we experienced several stressful months, but it has all worked out.