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The Story Behind the Stories

Ever wondered about my writing process or the behind-the-scenes of your favorite books? Check out these bit-sized posts!

The Stones of Power - Importance of secondary characters
Originally posted during Sapphire: Home and Abroad book tour. I have come to believe that a story just isn’t a good story without visceral secondary characters. Protagonists shouldn’t live in a void. And who doesn’t love that quirky best friend ...
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The Stones of Power - 10 fun facts about the series
Originally posted during my Jade: First and Last book tour. Jade: First and Last is the latest entry in The Stones of Power, and the structure became a quest story, much the same as the first book in the series. I kept making it worse for my guy...
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The Stones of Power - Character Profile - Morgorth
Originally posted during the book tour for Sapphire: Home and Abroad. Sapphire: Home and Abroad is the latest entry in The Stones of Power. I am overjoyed and relieved to finally release a new book in this series. After re-publishing back titles...
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The Stones of Power - Character Profile - Aishe
Originally published during my book tour for Sapphire: Home and Abroad. This is the latest entry in The Stones of Power. I am overjoyed and relieved to finally release a new book in this series. After re-publishing back titles, I can now work on...
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The Stones of Power - Magick systems, creatures, and creation
Originally posted during Sapphire: Home and Abroad book tour. So... magick systems. Love them or hate them, they’re unavoidable in fantasy. Consistency is key, especially since eagle-eyed readers will spot discrepancies and call out the author. ...
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Leopold - Designing alien species
Originally posted during my Leopold book tour in October 2018. When I first wrote Leopold I didn’t think much about the alien species. I made them up as I went along and didn’t put as much work into designing them as I should have. In subsequent...
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My Story - It all began with The Lord of the Rings
I have claimed that Escape is one of the main functions of fairy-stories, and since I do not disapprove of them, it is plain that I do not accept the tone of scorn or pity with which “Escape” is now so often used: a tone for which the uses of the wor...
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Legacy - Evolution of Story
Originally posted during my Legacy book tour. So, like with many of my projects, “Legacy” started very different from where it ended up. The original plan in the long-ago yesteryears, was to have a trilogy. Or perhaps a quadrilogy. After I wrote...
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Leopold - Evolution of Story
Originally posted during my Leopold book tour in October 2018.Leopold is an mm + mmf romance sci-fi epic, and it’s the first book of a 6-book saga. Believe it or not, I have been working on this for over a decade! Not consistently, mind you. Abo...
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Red Sun - Ace Romance
Originally published during my Red Sun book tour. One of my intentions or goals for this story was to feature an ace romance with little-to-no sexy times. For anyone familiar with my work, you know I love sexy times. This created an interesting ...
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Red Sun - Evolution of Story
Originally posted during my Red Sun book tour. So how did I come up with the storyline for Red Sun? Glad you asked. The seeds of it started decades ago when I was still a newb and unpublished. I had the outline for a werewolf series that never g...
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Legacy - Hardest Part of Writing the Story
Good day lovely readers! Thank you for joining me. I am M.D. Grimm and I am here to promote my newest release, “Legacy.” This is book two in my “Saga of the Bold People” 6-book sci-fi/romance series, and the follow-up to my amazingly popular “Leopold...
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Leopold - Deleted Scene
Originally posted during my Leopold book tour in October 2018.Leopold started out over 200k (!) and during my last edits/revision I finally managed to mercilessly slash and burn a decent chunk of it and it now hovers around 170k. Still too big for sm...
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Healing Lance - Writing the Story
Originally posted during Healing Lance blog tour. The final version of this story was not an easy thing to achieve. The first draft was decent but minimal. It was short and straight to the point. Then I wrote the second book and realized what I ...
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Healing Lance - Quick Facts
Originally posted during Healing Lance blog tour What secondary character would you like to explore more? Tell me about him or her.Brutus! You can’t tell from the blurb of “Healing Lance” but there is an awesome horse that Lance befriended when ...
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