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Well, ghost (Curse of the Mourning Ring) is off to final edits and will be finishing formatting this weekend.

ARC copies go out on June 7th, so be sure to sign up soon if you're interested in reading early!

Burst of Retribution (Book 3 of The Sunburst Trilogy) is on the docket with The Dire Legacy sne Read more of this blog post »

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Art&concept by Ol Albireo
Feel free to write your stories and name arts.
You also can do not only write, but draw, sing, create music and sculptures, translate into other languages you learn for practicing (and never simplify text when you translate it!). Show us that you did.

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“Let’s open it,” I whisper, to Katie’s delight.

The Dollhouse/pauline yates/nightmare Fuel Magazine

My latest story, The Dollhouse, is out now and free to read at Nightmare Fuel Magazine, an online magazine based in Meanjin (Brisbane), Queensland Australia.

The Dollhouse joins other great reads to the

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Maybe a better title is re-establishing a labor of love. I’m coming off a three year hiatus from publishing and really doing much writing beyond papers for school. That’s never to say that I didn’t do any writing, in fact, Legacy wouldn’t be live now if I didn’t do something productive in that time,

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 Greetings Covenmates ⚝

What's this?! What's this?! The cover for book of the Moose Cove Coven series is LIVE! The Prescient Witch is now available for e-book pre-order. Book release date is Friday, June 23rd.

I'm offering pre-order bonuses to readers who pre-order the book AND those who order the phy

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Introducing “Going To The Beach”: A Captivating adventure for young readers.

AVAILABLE 30TH JUNE 2023

This new children's book, “Going To The Beach”, is set to make a splash in the literary world, capturing the hearts and imaginations of young readers everywhere. Written by Susan Hoddy, this enchantin Read more of this blog post »

All good vampire stories have got to have a good monster origin back story to give it the right kind of verisimilitude necessary for the dark fantasy elements of a horror tale to work. In the first book of my BIG CRIMSON horror trilogy, Good Samaritan Kyle inadvertently saves the life of a vampi Read more of this blog post »

Tomorrow, June 1, my science fiction romance novel, SAFFRON, will be available FREE on Amazon. Stop by and grab your copy. https://www.amazon.com/Saffron-P-L-Pa... Read more of this blog post »

Picked up my Painting Entries at Multnomah County Fair Memorial Weekend 2023. The Theme- On the Pond. My Princess Warrior Overlooking the Pond, I did brought home People's Choice Award and First Place Ribbon. The yellow rose I painted with Monarch- Extinction on the Pond, second place ribbon. The oc Read more of this blog post »

If you should be near Albion during the Chain O’ Lakes Festival, don’t forget to drop in on the fish and tenderloin fry at the fire station Wednesday, June 7th. This has been an annual tradition for many decades, with proceeds going to equipment and training for the Albion Fire Department. (Indiana, Read more of this blog post »

Due to some publishers closing their businesses, some of my books with those publishers were cancelled and left out of print. This was a hard blow. I didn't know what to do to reestablish those books that had done well but were now out of print due to one publisher selling out to a bigger publisher Read more of this blog post »

First the bad news. Progress on Command Authority has stalled. I think I'm going to have to make an(other) outline of it and figure out what I've promised the reader, and how to deliver it.

Now the good news. The short story I mentioned last time is now live for my newsletter subscribers. It's called Read more of this blog post »

 it felt like it was in the 90's today. i just love grocery shopping on a day where it feels like the frozen shit will be melted by the time you get back home. good times.

the New York Yankees won last night in Seattle, 10-2. they go for the sweep tonight.

NXT was really good last night.






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Poem: Infinity Road
Book: No Extinction by Gloria E. Gherardi

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I have never written a book (start to finish, draft to publication) while in a relationship. When I was single, I cranked out four books in three years. I didn’t have to worry about offending my partner or wonder if readers would compare him to my characters. Many have tried to match the characters

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While this novel is not explicitly about climate collapse, it fires our awareness to five alarms. Through Annie Proulx’s inimitable skills, we inhabit characters of two clashing cultures, and in a narrative that rolls seamlessly across 400 years on this continent, we viscerally experience the day to Read more of this blog post »

June UpdateHappy birthday to ME!!

I believe birthdays are the one day a year that the birthday boy or girl gets to do whatever they choose. I’m so busy all year that I like to choose quiet options: picnic in a park; reading a fabulous book; going out for dinner.

It’s also winter here, and living in a

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It's me
The Blogetressa C
Bringing you another page
From my diary
Can't believe I forgot
To take a picture
But snipped a green bell pepper
Off the vine Friday
Cut into it
And oh my
The inside was orangey pink
How could that be
Cried me
Then googled it
And of course
Forgot the plant was for a yellow pepper
And the Read more of this blog post »

Now you listen to a 1 hour and 3 minute sample of, “Avalina,” on Google Play, here https://play.google.com/store/audiobo...
You can also listen to a 4 minute on Barnes and Noble audiobooks here https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/aval...
Until next time.
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I had the fortune to be one of the poets chosen for Cave Canem’s Minneapolis Regional Workshop on “Laboratory Poetics” taught by National Book Award-nominated poet Danez Smith. The 12-week workshop held at the Minneapolis writing center The Loft was an educationally and emotionally uplifting experi

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We can argue all day about women’s place in society, but in one key respect, our lives are better than they’ve been in several hundred years: we don’t have to wear corsets.
(Note that I said HAVE to wear – if you corset by choice, it’s your business…and your ribcage!)
Corsets have been around in so Read more of this blog post »

My new book "The Chimera Prophecies and Other Short Stories" is now available to read. I very proud of getting this book published. It was a long process, compiling the short stories, editing them, finishing the book, and then working with the publishing company. I am very happy with how it all turn Read more of this blog post »

So, this old girl needs to go. She's nearly 50 years old and needs a spruce-up top to bottom and inside-out. A mighty big order.

This is one of the things I do when I'm not writing, and the writing timetable is intense at

the moment with a publishing date looming in May. Writing is sedentary and a lo

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I had a fun time with podcaster "Madame" Jennifer Perry on her podcast "Madame Perry's Salon". I "brought" my beautiful black kitty Michonne along. Very lively and fun. If you haven't checked it out, it is running here:
https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast... Read more of this blog post »

Hey all!

I published my first novel about a month ago, and so far it seems like it's doing pretty well — or maybe it's not, I really have no idea.

Having just spent the last hour reading articles about how to market my book and taking action on a few of them, I think I've reached a good stopping poin Read more of this blog post »

Hi everyone! After a couple dozen requests, the audiobook version of Breaking Free is finally available via Audible! The narrator stuck out to me, out of the 53 who auditioned, and I'm thrilled with how it turned out. I hope you enjoy it!

Book 4 of my Wild Horse Run series is releasing on July 27th, 2023. It's available for pre order now on Amazon.

"Levi has a lot of thinking and a life-altering decision to make, but if it's ultimately left up to her soul, there would be no question of her decision regarding the two men."

Levi is temp Read more of this blog post »

Hola, lectores y lectoras.

Hace un montonazo que no posteo algo por aquí. No estoy muy seguro de si alguien me lee, porque, vaya, no es que esto sea la autopista de la exposición. Seguramente debería hacer un blog dedicado... pero qué curro. Ya si tal cuando tenga preguntas que responder a los futuro Read more of this blog post »