I couldn’t let this day go by without a tug of the forelock in acknowledgment to all the surfers and wave-obsessed out there. I used to be the girl in the photo. I lived on the beach. Although I never surfed, I wind-surfed. And snorkeled and scuba-dived and free-dived and hung out with surfers. Some […]
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June is Great Outdoors Month in the USA, which is a great idea. Everyone tends to head out in June, as soon as the warmer weather kicks in. Even mole-like people like me appreciate being able to open windows, breathe fresh air and still be warm. I’ve written many stories that were set mostly out
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Even though I don’t put my books into Amazon’s Kindle Unlimited program, I did manage to make the first book in the Vistaria Has Fallen series free a few times here and there, mostly on Kobo, over the last few months. Kobo are running a promo for Vistaria Has Fallen again, but in the meantime, I have permanently dropped
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Veil of Honor, book 6 of the Scandalous Scions series, was released a week ago, and the response was staggering. It has broken all my personal sales records for new releases. It reached as high as #16 on the Hot New Releases list, and is still midway up the list, ten days later. It has 63 reviews
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Atlas Obscura reported recently that “50 Escaped Baboons Shut Down a Paris Zoo“, which caught my eye. We’re currently working our way through the three Planet of the Apes reboot movies and the post on Obscura made me think of the scene in the first movie when all the apes escape the experimental labs and
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I’ve been getting some rather good feedback on the first book in my new King Arthur series, Once and Future Hearts. The first book, Born of No Man, is getting some rave reviews. It reached the top 100 in Ancient World Romances, and #16 in the Hot New Releases list, which was amazing. Here’s some review
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It’s a pretty ordinary looking photo. The average teenager with a cellphone could frame a better shot of a sunset. You have to let it sink in a bit to really understand how awesome this photo is. Why? Because: It was taken by a robot. It is a photo of the sun setting on a different
Another anniversary date I didn’t want to omit acknowledging. Western Australia Day was called Foundation Day when I was a kid, and we always had special assemblies on the day. The name was changed to Western Australian day in the 1990s, after I left Australia, as the old name had come to be considered insensitive
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Today is Armed Forces Day. Canada’s Armed Forces Day isn’t a public holiday, although there are parades and fly-bys where there are military bases. There is not a lot of commonly-known history about the Canadian military, and as a new Canadian, I’m still catching up on it. There is waaay more movies and TV series
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If you love stories, then finding more time to appreciate them is a good thing. Stories have been around for as long as man has walked upright. They began as spoken tales, that taught us how to survive. So Paleo Bob’s story around the campfire, “This time my mate was eaten by a tiger and
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