Igor OvsyannykovOn this day in 1169, Salah ad-Din or Saladin became the emir of Egypt. He was a Kurdish Fatimid and highly educated. He preferred studying and religion to military affairs, but he would go on to conquer Syria and take the Kingdom of Jerusalem from the Levant Christians, effectively making him the leader of one of the greatest Muslim dynasties. […]
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It’s the scale of this image that blows my mind. Those are crystals, the largest in the world. This is not SF. It’s the Naica mine in Chihuahua, Mexico. The mine supplies lead, zinc and silver and these gigantic crystals are something the geology has thrown up, a result of hydrothermal fluids emanating from the magma chambers below. The crystal cavern
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I first published this post on March 19, 2011. It was a little post about some of the cool historical research I was doing at the time, for a book I was planning to write that would later become Kiss Across Chains. This little nugget post ended up being one of the most popular posts on
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In the last few weeks I have been holding a discussion with my readers via the newsletter, about what they want to read. The discussion was sparked by Street Team members telling me I was wrong to stop writing Science Fiction Romance. That gave me pause, because my Street Team are a microcosm of my
…and Science Fiction Romance is Back On the Table (Among Other Genres). Read More »
As a rule, I prefer to do a general, normal post in between posts about my books, but lately, there’s just been way too much news to share. So, another announcement, today. Ningaloo Nights is a novella length romantic suspense set in Ningaloo, Western Australia. Generally, only Australians and travellers who have been to parts
Now out in print! Super hot Romantic Suspense. Read More »
The Vistaria Has Fallen series is now into the “new” stuff. Book 5 is new, freshly written and just made for the new version of the series. As I wrote in the author note for Amazon, I don’t think I would have written this story anywhere near like it turned out, if I was still
CASUALTIES OF WAR Cover Reveal (woah!) and pre-order out now. Read More »
Honestly, the only two reasons why we started watching Counterpart (CraveTV in Canada) is because JK Simmons is in the lead, and it was about spies. We didn’t know anything else about it, hadn’t heard anything, seen reviews, nothing. Only, the show is not exactly about spies. And JK Simmons isn’t in the lead. He’s both leads.
What If You Met Yourself…and You Didn’t Like You? Read More »
When Elizabeth Gilbert had to sit down and write the next book after Eat, Pray, Love, (which is, <gasp> ten years old this year), she knew she would never top the success of the previous mega-best-selling title. But she’s a writer. So she wrote another book. While I can’t claim to have had the same huge
Book 6 of the Scandalous Scions series now available for pre-order on Amazon, too. Read More »
Image credits: Adas Meliauskas Depending on where you are in the world, we’re coming into Cherry Blossom season in a few weeks, which is generally around April in the northern hemisphere, but earlier in warmer climates. Cherry blossoms are associated strongly with Japan, but the trees grow everywhere. This astonishing cherry blossom canopy (above)
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Seven years ago today, on March 11, 2011, I “relaunched” my blog, to mark the release of my very first indie book, Blood Knot. I’ve been writing blog posts ever since, with just the odd short break here and there to give myself some downtime. But that wasn’t the first day this site was launched. In actual
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