Author of several books, including The Unbroken, Fate’s Bane, and Ambessa: Chosen of the Wolf, along with a handful short stories and essays exploring love and war and the joys and trials of our bodies.
I’m a novelist, a short story writer, sometimes even an essayist obsessed with what it means to be a hero. I am obsessed with the difficult choices we make for love. I write about war because it still shapes so much of our lives. I’ve been praised for the intensity of my writing and condemned for it. I write about shitty—sorry, complicated—relationships and I’m good at it. I write about people trying their best to disastrous results—and I write about people becoming heroes, with all the complications that entails. Courage, honor, hope, failure. Redemption.
I write about bodies, training them, how they build and break and hold us up anyway, how the world is nothing without them, our love and our hatred for them, the ecstasy and the agony of them. Yes, that includes sex. It also includes dancing and running and falling and fighting and feeling the rain on your skin and the taste of sweat and new foods.
I build worlds and write about the people in them, the beasts and the monsters, how they come together to make cultures, make societies, make alliances and conflicts. I write about how we’re all connected and always will be, for better but also for worse.
I write to inspire myself. I hope it inspires you, too.
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