It's release day for Queen of Swords- the first book in my Banished Gods series. After working on this series for almost three years, I am so happy that bookone is going to find its way to readers.
I just finished Abbie’s newest book and as always, she did not disappoint. Superb storytelling from beginning to end, as she brings two damaged souls together and makes them whole. The third installment in her Fatal Dreams series, Don’t Let Me Fall is the story of Thomas Brown and Helena Grayse; Thomas can’t see color since a childhood family trauma, and Helena hasn’t spoken in ten years, as it was the only thing she had control over in her world. Continuing the mythology of Nameless and the Bear, and some of her previous characters make cameo appearances throughout the...
Where to even start with this past weekend? Every year the NEORWA conference seems to come at the best and worst of times. I’m overly busy, I can’t squeeze in enough time to write, yet alone hold down my day job (the one paying the bills right now). But I also know when I walk out of there, I’m going to have accomplished a couple of things. First, my love of writing is going to be reignited. Somehow, someway, listening to everyone TALK about writing, TALK about craft, AND deadlines AND plotting AND character, AND even all of...
I’ve spent way more time than I’d like to admit obsessing over what to do this year. Trying to fit in solid, productive writing time, plus working full time (gotta pay those bills) leaves little time for the fun stuff associated with writing- aka, the reading part of it. My plan this year was to attend some author events, just to see how the big girls do it, and had several on my schedule. My two favorite authors- Karen Marie Moning and J. R. Ward both had big books coming out this spring, and both (somehow) managed to have...
I’ll be having my final book signing for Shadows of Ghosts this coming Saturday, January 27th from 1:00-3:00 at the Learned Owl Bookstore in Hudson, Ohio. These last couple months have flown by so fast- I know when I scheduled this it seemed so far away! A big thanks to all of my readers and supporters who have made this journey the wonderful trip that it’s been! I couldn’t have done any of this without you!!! I just sent in the MS for Reflections of Your Heart, book 2, to my editor at the beginning of this month,...
So I had this brilliant idea to volunteer for something that sounds kind of like a cool science experiment- writing in a store-front window at a bookstore up in Cleveland- AppleTree Books. The basic concept: sit in the window, write, maybe talk to some people about writing, get work done, have fun. Win-win. As a bonus? The whole month of November was NaNoWriMo, so I absolutely needed to get at least 50,000 words written last month. (I was actually shooting for 65,000-70,000.) But let’s keep it real. I’d have settled for 50,000- that’s solid first draft territory. I’m...