Shadowslayers: The World of Blackwood

The empire of Blackwood existed for almost 1,000 years before Derrezen the Dragon-God broke free from his eternal prison. Although the realm has held Derrezen’s attacks off for the last twenty years, each battle leaves Blackwood weaker while the Dragon-God only gets stronger. To finally defeat Derrezen, the people of Blackwood may need to look to their past.

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Shadowslayers, Twenty Years Later

This year marks the 20th anniversary of my first published novel, Shadowslayers. While the tale didn’t become the best-selling modern fantasy classic I hoped, it provided me with some very useful experience about the publishing world and helped shape who I would become as both a writer and a person. Here’s how I became a published novelist and what I learned from the experience.

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