Back in March I ran a post about the horrifying episode of Planet Earth II that ran on the BBC, showing recer snakes gobbling up baby iguanas as they rushed for the beach. I thought that one was bad enough. Since then, I have tripped across another island. This one is called Ilha da Queimada […]
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I just finished rereading Kiss Across Tomorrow, as part of my editing and cleanup process, and I can’t tell you how much I enjoyed it. That seems self-aggrandizing, but I’m very pleased to be able to say it, because when I stopped writing the series a year ago, I had started to get a teeny
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I first posted this in November 2015, but there has been some changes since then! Notes on the way through… There were two major influences that drove me as I wrote Heart of Vengeance, one of them positive, the other horribly negative…but I’ll get to that one in a minute. The positive one was an
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I haven’t been teasing, not exactly. But I have been getting an awful lot of email from readers who are keeping up with the Scandalous Scions series and are dying to find out how Cian’s story goes. Cian has been flirting with love for many years now, and his is not a straightforward story. It’s tied
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If you’ve been following my blog posts for a while, it is probably not a big shock to you if I tell you that I am subscribed to several productivity blogs. One of them, Zen Habits, recently put up a post about deliberately scheduling reading time into your day. If you’ve never deliberately schedule something that
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Today is International Left-Handed Day. What I want to know is, when is it International Right-Handed Day? Being left-handed was once a curse. It was considered a sign of the devil. Left-handers were treated with mild suspicion at best. I’ve used this a couple of times in historical novels and my time travel novels, particularly
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I came across one of the most bizarre facts I’ve ever learned about Victorians in my research for Rules of Engagement, the eighth book in the Scandalous Scions series, which I finished just a few days ago. In the late Victorian period, one of the most popular activities among the ton was mummy unwrapping parties!
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As if all the cat images on Facebook wasn’t a perpetual Cat Day… However, I love cats. My coffee cup tells me so. Some famous writers who are/were cat lovers includes Robert Heinlein, who managed to write cats as characters into some of his novels, including To Sail Beyond The Sunset (one of my favourites): Notice the
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This is another of my guest posts that appeared on a blog that is now long gone. I’ve updated and refreshed links. There’s a ton of fiction out there – even romance fiction – featuring vampires in the past and the present, taking on human roles and because of their inherited special gifts and talents,
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The title of this post, by the way, is not something I said, but a reviewer. 🙂 When I first started inhaling fiction in every second of my spare time, the only books being released were from traditional publishers. Anthologies back then often had a long, in-depth foreword by the editor, and an additional note
Absolutely Stunning Epic Read – Prepare to be Awed!! Read More »