Alas, it has been a dog's age since I last updated my blog. Or my facebook page… Or my website… You get the idea. That is not to say I’ve been idle. I’m nearly done an Ironshield novel and will have the cover ready to reveal shortly. The proper sequel to book 1, Iron Wrath , is also in the works, though it’s taking longer than I would like. I’ve been just floored by the positivity Ironshield has received thus far. It might not seem like it, but your reviews and kind words are what keep writers like me going when the crippling self-doubt comes gnawing. Being an indie author who has to wedge my fiction in between a real job and the rest of life’s pesky distractions, I don’t know if I’d be able to keep publishing my books if I didn’t know that some of ya’ll like these weird stories of mine as much as I do. And this brings me to what inspired today’s post. This year I entered Ironshield into Mark Lawrence’s Self-Published Fantasy Blog-Off . This is my second year a...