A Hiatus Update

So… I should’ve known that when I set a date for our hiatus to end and had the audacity to say, “we won’t be one of those cool new projects that gets you all excited and then ghost you!” life was going to whack us both and make me a liar. It’s now the end […]

Hiatus

So, 2020. Yeah. 2020 has been a bit of a jerk. I don’t say this in the naïve way of thinking, “well, everything will magically change in 2021,” because the truth is, most of the most challenging things 2020 has thrown at us (us, as in both Rowan and I and us as the general […]

More Ways to Support Hollow Reign

Today we got 100 single hits on our site, which was a first! We’ve also just begun to work on our social media presence and web comic listing presence. We’re now on The Web Comics List and Top Web Comics, where you can vote for us. In fact, we’re currently listed as one of the […]

Should You Trust Your Narrator?

Evening, folks. Just thought I’d give a brief update for the blog. I just finished a first draft of Chapter 32 and technically of 33, too. That one is a special one, however. Super excited for ya’ll to see it in June of 2021. 😉 We’re also working on revising and doing finishing touches for […]

A Little More About the Writer

Morning, friends! For my contribution to the Hollow Blog this week, the topic is… me. That’s right. Me. I actually have very little to say, but I’m trying to make more of an effort to keep this blog up to date, especially in weeks where we don’t have a chapter release, like this one. For […]

Please Allow Me to Praise the Illustrator

I have a little song that I like to sing with my K-3 students when we’re first getting to know books. In some of our first lessons together, I teach them the parts of the book: where the title is, the cover, what the papers in the middle are called (pages), and then, we sing: […]

On Identity, Orientation Writing, and Queer Sacrifice

In a bit of a break from precedent (if three posts constitutes a precedent), tonight I’d like to write a bit about some of the intersections of identity within Hollow Reign that echo aspects of my own life as a queer person and writer. It might not come as a shock to many of you […]

The Plotsing, Planning, and Pantsing of Hollow Reign

Hey folks! We’re less than a week out now from the release of chapters five and six (yay!), so I thought I’d write a little bit about my end of the creative process. Hopefully down the line Rowan will illustrate a bit for us about his, er, illustration process, too. Right now, I’m in the […]

Supporting Our Project

Hey folks! Just chiming in to say thank you so much for taking the time to read and enjoy Hollow Reign. It means a lot to us. We’re still working on amping up our social media game and setting up things online that might help more readers find the site, as well as adjusting to […]

The Messy Road to Web Publishing

When I tell people I’ve decided to put Hollow Reign online for free, it tends to elicit two very different responses: HECK NO and HECK YES. The Heck No crowd are those who know me professionally, either through graduate school, a writing organization, a contest like #PitchMadness, YA Writer Twitter, or maybe a big conference […]