I normally mark Remembrance Day each year, but this year is special. World War I, the Great War, was not the deadliest war in history. It wanted wasn’t even the second most deadliest. In a list of total casualties, World War I comes eighth! So why is so much fuss made about World War I? […]
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Unlike most of the heroes in Romanceland, Daniel, the hero of Degree of Solitude, is a scarred “monster” that hides away in the wilds of Wales. When I explained his general appearance to Dar Albert, the cover artist who designs nearly all my covers, I knew it would be a challenge to make him both hideous
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I enjoy writing all my books, of course, but this one in particular made me look forward to getting up in the morning and heading for my desk. Although it was a logistical nightmare to plot and write! Now we’re getting further into the saga, many of the characters you’ve heard of before are starting
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I’m not entirely sure how I found this one. Not sure how I’m going to use it, either. A Russian fisherman, Roman Fedortsov, has an Instagram account where he posts images of the creatures he and his fellow fisherman find in their nets. They trawl far and deep, and some of the life in the
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“Halloween” just slides off the tongue. When you read the word or hear it, you think kids, silly costumes, pumpkins and candy. Or, if you have my addiction, you think, “candy, candy, candy, candy, candy…!” The word Halloween, though, is a shortened form of “All Hallows’ Eve”. That is, the evening before All Hallows’ Day…or,
It’s Halloween! I can’t resist the fun of Halloween. Even though I’ve learned to resist the copious quantities of sugar everywhere, the creepy supernatural origins of the day fit right in with paranormal themed…everything. I can’t hand out candy on the Interweb…not this century. But I can hand out different goodies. A free short paranormal
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Last week(ish), I released the very last of the Vistaria Has Fallen series, V-Day. Because it was the last of the series, I did a short video, running through the history of the series. That history goes back more than ten years! There has been some lovely reviews for the final book in the series, too! They
This is another of the guest posts I did for the launch of Bannockburn Binding, for which the original blog site has since disappeared. As I’ve mentioned before, the timing is coincidental, but interesting, as I’m releasing two time travel stories early next month (here and here). — t. I’ve read any number of time travel novels.
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When I first started writing for Ellora’s Cave, way back when, the covers they gave me for my books sucked like a vacuum. I’m not being mean. They really did suck. In those days, the new electronic publishing industry didn’t understand how critical covers were for readers. Although I cringe to do this, I am going
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I think I might get used to this. Monday’s Facebook Live session (here and here on YouTube, too, or just click on the embedded video, below) was not nearly the same stress-inducing, get-me-out-of-here experience as the first week. I actually managed to relax a bit. One of the questions I failed to answer yesterday, I