Today has been a rather lovely day. A long-time reader whom I’ve corresponded with for years is in Ireland, and we met for breakfast, which was a genuine delight. Even though she’s still mad at me for something I wrote in the Walker Papers, and took the chance to tell me I’m not yet forgiven. But I also told her a couple of SECRETS, so we were all even in the end, or something. *laughs* I brought her a copy of GLADIATOR TIGER, which she had not known was dedicated…
Ask the Author – the Question: I am curious about how you got in on the Zoe Chant action. And how exactly does it work when multiple authors write under a single pen name? Hah! I got in on it because I have a friend who writes for Zoe and she spent years trying to get me to apply to write for them. Eventually I did. And while that sounds easy enough on the surface, it took me two rewrites of one book and then another entire book entirely to…
I have a new Old Races story out in an anthology! Matryoshka, in ARTIFICE & CRAFT is now available! An excerpt follows: *** The largest matryoshka doll was ugly as sin, and precious beyond gold. It lay in Janx’s hoard, buried by jewels, by precious metals, by the detritus of time, forgotten even by the dragonlord until a ghost made a wish, and the world began to crack. Within it sat a second doll, half its size, rattling in its outer ebony carving when it moved at all. Now the…
I’ve had a perfectly lovely conversation with my dad about the journey vs the destination. This was based around a couple of things: Dad wanting to visit European capitals and also do a fundraiser around walking across them, and my long-held desire to bike across America. I’ve been working on myself on that topic, because even in concept, it’s hard to not think about the DESTINATION as the GOAL: getting each leg of the journey done, biking however many miles a day is necessary to accomplish that, etc. I am…
Today POLAR HEART, very long-awaited sequel to my first ever paranormal romance, is finally available! This funny little bit is the moment polar bear shifter Isaiah realizes he *could* have had a Just One Bed scenario with his fated mate Davinda… Wildlife photographer Davinda Jackson thinks she’s seen everything… until the polar bear she’s taking pictures of turns into a man right in front of her. Thrown heart-first into a world of shifters she never imagined existed, in a small town she only meant to visit, Davinda’s livelihood is threatened…