This morning, when I opened my gmail, I got a bunch of congratulations on my novel winning the EPIC competition. I didn’t know what they were talking about until I opened the EPIC Book Award website and saw that my novel Eagle En Garde indeed won in the Fantasy category. The badge above arrived as an attachment to an email from EPIC, but the email itself didn’t contain anything except the word ‘CONGRATULATION!’ and some twinkling gif. I didn’t even think the congratulations applied to myself. What a strange feeling. I have never won anything before. I’m happy but I think I’m still processing.
Eagle En Garde, my sword and sorcery fantasy novel, was published in May 2014 by Champagne/Burst. It tells a story of a mercenary officer Darin Barclay and his fight against homicidal anti-magic fanatics during one memorable summer.
Darin lives in Talaria, a kingdom surrounded by a…
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