Here's another question from a fans about my new novel, One Man’s Castle. Do you have a question? Send it to me and I'll try answer it in an upcoming blog!

Then what was the most difficult thing about writing One Man’s Castle?

Besides the time it took? I’d have to say the changes I had to learn and re-learn about writing a novel versus storytelling.

When writing short stories, you tend to have a cut-cut-cut mentality. So one of the first things I had to learn was how to expand my ideas without making them feel like padding. Also, I could experiment with tricks of grammar and sentence structure for mood, setting, etc., a luxury that the space limitations of a short story don’t generally allow.

With storytelling, however, a short story goes directly to the heart of the matter, while a novel establishes the hook, then brings in backstory to flesh out the characters and motivations before moving the plot forward.