Captain's Log
Bring Back Single Combat
The RantThis week I went off on a bit of a rant — and I'm not sorry about it.Between the headlines, the state of modern warfare, and the technological hellscape we seem to be building for ourselves, I got to thinking about how ancient we really are under all the...
The Ghost of Spartacus
One of the things that happened to me after coming home from the service is that I got obsessed with military history. And I think a lot of veterans will know exactly what I mean. You pick up these books about ancient battles and great commanders and part of you is...
Finishing The Seven Signs: A Long Journey Ends
This week, I finished The Heart of the Wasteland — the final book in The Seven Signs series. After years of work, false starts, rewrites, deployments, career changes, and more than a little self-doubt, the series is finally complete. The first...
Sailboats and Other Things
Time for more reassurance that I'm still alive and still working on my books. The answers are--mostly, and yes. I spent my holiday week, as it turned out, tending to other matters in my life. The kinds of things that build up at the fringes when you have a job, a...
The Sprawl
Time for another writing update, folks. In my long tradition of bipolar interactions with my stories, I have come once again to bemoan the state of my current manuscript. Ye gods, how could I have let things get this crazy? So many POVs. Chapters long enough to be...
The Current State of Things
It's been a while since I've pushed out an update. Life has been sprinting lately, and I've had trouble keeping up. Here we are in the Autumn of another year, and I've got books to publish. Lucky for you guys, two of them are finished, and the third is almost there....
The World of Eldath: Maps of the Seven Signs
From Child of the Flames--a map of Cambrell, The Cannon Steppe, and northern Shundovia From The Knife in the Dark--a map of the southeastern Sevenlands From The Old Man of the Temple--a map of Ishamael and the northern Sevenlands From The City Under the Mountain--a...
Lessons in Sorcery: D’Jenn’s Rules of Magic
Among the ruins and shadowed passages of The City Under the Mountain, the story pauses to let us glimpse something rare — the actual process of learning magic. D’Jenn, patient and razor-sharp, takes Bethany under his wing, guiding her away from raw instinct and into...
The Gods of Eldath: Forgotten, Feared, and Fanatical
In the world of The Seven Signs, the gods are never absent — but they are rarely present in the way we expect. Their names linger in curses, prayers, and ruins, even as their temples crumble and their followers dwindle. They are shadows in the background of the...
D.W. Hawkins
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