Harvest of Holidays, book 2.1 in The Stonebrood Saga, featuring a return of Carson and Tally from Carson’s Night, is now available. Also featuring gargoyles, vampires and demon hunters, this is a tightly packed little story. Here’s the blurb for Harvest of Holidays: Carson Connor’s final story. Six years have passed since Natalia Grey destroyed the […]
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It’s such a pretty name, isn’t it? It makes you think of swashbuckling science fiction or the old Victorian fantasy fiction, the sort of stories that HG Wells wrote, or the pulp fiction of the 1920s. I might have to see if there’s a story in that name… However, the Galilean Moons are very real.
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So, just got the new cover — check it out: Click here for details about the book (including an excerpt!) Happy Sunday!
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The first story in my new and improved production schedule for 2015 rolls off the production line next week. Carson and Tally, the hero and heroine from Carson’s Night, are back. They get a continuation of their story in Harvest of Holidays. This is book 2.1 in The Stonebrood Saga, if you’re counting. And yes,
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I didn’t make resolutions for 2015. Not this year. The statistics are against me keeping them. 90% or more New Year Resolutions are abandoned by Valentine’s Day. I thought I’d dodge the bad odds and do something different, instead. I made an intentions list. It’s long, but each item on the list only gets put
For those of you who are actually on line today that celebrate Christmas, even if it’s just for the turkey and presents, please have a wonderfully happy, argument-free day with your family and friends. May your stocking be overflowing! And because I just can’t help myself, did you know the very first Christmas was celebrated
Remember my post a few weeks ago – the five (six, seven) fictional people I would most like to have dinner with, and why? I got an interesting bag of mail from that one, including a few suggestions for story people I hadn’t thought about in years (e.g., Ann of Green Gables). But there were
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Did you know Bluebeard was a real man? I didn’t. I’ve found another cool history factoid! I grew up reading the Bluebeard fairytale that warns women everywhere and everywhen about the dangers of curiosity and not obeying your husband (which just underlines when the fairytale was created!). It took growing up and getting married myself
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Benjamin Franklin may be the earliest indie author in North America. He wrote and self-published Poor Richard’s Almanack on this day in 1732, and it was so successful it ran for decades after that, lasting sixteen years. It was considered a best seller, with print runs reaching ten thousand per year. The Almanack contained weather
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I am one of millions of commuters who take public transport to work and back each day. I should resent the huge chunk of time that takes out of my day, except for one thing: I write on my laptop on the way to work and on the way home. In the middle of winter,
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