Tales from FAR Manor

…and I haven’t been posting. I'll backdate a few things, starting with a trip to Mom’s for Spring Break, so scroll on down to see what’s...

Steak is better than sizzle. It’s winter, it was 39°F out late this afternoon, but it was partly sunny with a little breeze. What else to do...

They're lookin' back (they're lookin' back) They're lookin' back (they're lookin' back) Too many people look...

I had a few posts written up for our brush with Zeta, and never published them. I back-dated them to the dates they should  have appeared, s...

To be honest, I’m surprised that CreateSpace doesn’t have something like this on their own site already. Any time you want to publish a pape...

Thanks to all of you, Beyond the Sea of Storms  made it to the final round of Cover Wars ! And so did all the covers I highlighted in my p...

I entered Beyond the Sea of Storms  in the Masquerade Crew’s Cover Wars promo for August. Go check it out, and vote every day : Click t...

Still bloggin’ after all these years… A lot of stuff has happened in ten years, since I began with a post about replacing rotted siding ...

Last week, Indie ReCon kicked off with a talk with Mark Coker of Smashwords, called What Authors Need to Know in 2015 . Of course, toward th...

So, there’s an interesting blog post out there. Nora Roberts tells her critics: Bite Me . Wow. Just wow. Apparently, someone left some...

I finally updated the progress bar(s) over the weekend. Beyond the Sea of Storms  is the working title for the sixth Accidental Sorcerers ...

Whew! Zharcon the White is the leader of the Westmarch Conclave, and the mentor for Mik’s friend Charn sim Bas. Accidental Sorcerers ...

This post is really about dialects and idioms. Although Camac’s empire is long past, the language that it spread across the world either rep...

This was actually a place (with a name) before I started the Challenge. It’s the ancient town in Water and Chaos . Xorsecc is one of the l...

Woldland lies on the eastern side of the Gulf of Camac, a vast grassland of plains and rolling hills. The inhabitants, the Wolds, are a semi...

In the time of Camac That Was , Vlis was a small but important city, upriver from Koyr . Surrounded by forest, Vlis supplied Koyr with the l...

Quoting the creation myth: “The Evil One persuaded many people to worship the lesser gods, but a few refused. Those few withdrew from others...

Its official name is A Compact Among the Civilized Nations, Concerning the Use of Magic in Battle , but sorcerers (and nearly everyone else)...

Sorcery, harnessing the classical elements (Earth, Air, Fire, and Water) to produce a physical result, is one of several kinds of magic kno...

Captain Rietha may well be the single most influential figure of the modern age. Born Lady Rietha, of House Chelor in Dacia, Rietha was Chel...