Everything has a dark side… For a moment, I had everything going for me—good job, good friends, and a great relationship with an amazing woman. And then, everything changed. As a cop, I always knew Adelheid had a dark side. I just never thought I’d get such a close-up view of it. Never thought it […]
Author: K. B. Thorne
Character Interview: Danica James & BR Kingsolver
Danica James: Magitek, Book one of The Rift Chronicles Danica James: I’m a cop with the Mid-Atlantic Metropolitan Police Arcane Division. I work homicides, human trafficking, and other major crimes. I’m a magitek, a mage who can manipulate mechanical and electrical equipment. My grandfather was the most famous magitek. You probably heard of him, Hunter […]
Pro-Tip: Editing Dialogue
In a word? Do it cautiously! The fact is that almost no one, not a single one of us, speaks perfectly when we’re speaking. “People don’t always talk good.” So when you’re editing dialogue, resist the urge to edit it to perfection! Make sure this isn’t a natural way of speaking or a character-specific style. […]
New Release: Written in Blood
Beware the Of
Beware! Beware of the word “of.” The fact is, you don’t need to use it as often as most people think they do. And using it when you don’t need to can hamper the flow of your sentence. For example, “She walked down the steps of the porch.” Doesn’t this sound better when written as, […]
Beware the Onomatopoeia
onomatopoeianoun. the formation of a word from a sound associated with what is named Aside from being remarkably hard to spell, this is one of those writing acts that can be very useful but very easy to overuse. When something BAM! crashes into something else, or air HISS escapes through an airlock, or SQUELCH someone […]
Guest Crazy
This is what happens when a friend is nice enough to let you set your characters loose on their blog. BR let me do this a couple years ago, and I post it here for new enjoyment with a little editing update! P.S. BR has written many other urban fantasy books since this time and […]
Be Bold!
Something that I commonly change in the prose of stories is that a character will start to do something or begin to do something, rather than just doing it. In many cases, “beginning” to do the thing isn’t relevant. They end up doing it without interruption. So why specify that? Over-qualifying is a pretty common […]
Different Eyes
Why is Adelheid told with different First Person narrators? There was a brief review for the original publications of books two and three where a review said simply that they were surprised that the narrators were different than the first book. This sort of thing doesn’t surprise people in stories written in Third Person, but […]
Flash Fic Series: Blackout (Part 4)
And now for the finale! You can read Part One Here, Part Two Here, and Part Three Here! Nykk Getting caught at the Coven House during a blackout wasn’t my idea of a good time. I’d been there on business, but was getting ready to leave when the lights went out. I knew that none […]