M. Boyd

Every great hero has a reason to fall, don’t they? Fatal flaws, most well-known from Greek tragedies, are the character traits which can...

A look at my progress on my 2024 goals.

Looking ahead to the release of Ghosts of the Steel Road, which is getting closer by the day, I thought this would be a good time to talk...

So, I definitely disappeared for this past month, so let’s kick Pride Month off with a little life update! To begin, I finished my third...

I’ve always been a creative. No, I wasn’t one of those people who came out of the womb writing the next Great American novel. I didn’t...

I may have forgotten to release a blog post last week, but in my defense, Stardew Valley is fun. One of my goals for this year was to...

Thinking about spring has a bit of a different result nowadays. Of course, there’s the obvious trait of more sunshine, which will fight...

I used to stretch a lot more than I do now. When I was young, I was a dancer, and in dance, flexibility is key. I wasn’t the most...

Curly hair that always frizzes in the humidity. A love for the shadows. Workaholics. One of the most interesting things about my writing,...

Howdy, everyone! I’ve been a bit busy this week, so instead of doing a full blog post, I wanted to give a few updates about this blog and...

An adventure and a yummy treat, it truly is the best of both worlds! Fern Haught’s debut graphic novel, The Baker and the Bard, is a...

It’s that time of year. Love is in the air, couples huddle together on snowy nights, and aisle after aisle in the grocery store is filled...

People always say that the key to being a successful writer is to not just write, but to write every day. But what would I manage to...

Early nights. Biting winds. Freezing rain. No, I mean actual freezing rain. Wintertime has always been rough for me. The long periods of...

Look out, young detectives–The Hampton House Mystery, a new installment in Ellen Alexander’s Dinswood Chronicles, is a wonderful mystery...

Make a list. Cross each item off. Make a list. Cross each item off. The furious scribbling of pencil against sticky notes and scrap...

Last year, I opened this blog with a New Years’ resolutions post. Much has changed since then, as I described in my 2023 review post, but...

2023 was certainly a year. That’s pretty much all I can say. At the beginning of 2023, as I usually do, I outlined my goals as if 2023...

The train to Elsewhere. The train to Elsewhere was a story that was only ever told in a whisper, passed between disillusioned teenagers,...

With the end of the year approaching, it is time to begin to look at what will be upcoming next year. While I’ll be doing an official...