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Hey, y’all! I’m finally able to share the cover of About Last Knight. I looooove it so much! Isn’t he pretty?!

You can pre-order the book on Amazon! Yay! I hope you’ll check it out!

Cover designer: Y’all. That Graphic.

Photographer: Michelle Lancaster

Cover model: Andy Murray

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I have a question for America, which I need to answer as well. Why can’t we compromise anymore? At some point in the last two decades we determined that compromise was tantamount to surrender. Our side had to win at all costs. Anything else was bitter defeat.

Partly that viewpoint has been driven by Read more of this blog post »

Call for Abstracts

Edited volume on Star Trek and Star Wars

Edited by Emily Strand, MA and Amy H. Sturgis, PhD

Vernon Press

The generations-spanning, multimedia franchises Star Trek and Star Wars will form the focus for this edited collection of scholarly essays. As venerable and evolving repositories o

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For the next ten days,  10 copies of Wheel of the Fates, Book Two of the Carolingian Chronicles will be offered through the Goodreads Giveaway program.  Click here to check it out: https://www.goodreads.com/giveaway?so... Read more of this blog post »

Not a horror movie, but I get why this one's a classic.

For my UK readers –

The King’s Curse , my book about Margaret Pole, has been selected for this month’s Kindle Monthly Deal, and is only 99p during May.

Margaret was a fascinating heroine to write about – she was a deposed royal, and she experienced both great poverty and immense wealth in her life, Read more of this blog post »

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Cait can’t afford complications that might cause her to lose the family she’s only just found—complications like blue-eyed boat builder, Brant Remington, who is as open as she is guarded. If only the sexy charmer would take the hint…

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Put quite simply, you don't get from me if you don't give to me. When you're mistreating me and I know damn well you have nothing to offer me, goodbye and that's the last you'll see of me. Do me a favor and I will always return the gesture, no matter who you are or what you were.

Just up in the wonderful journal The 433 is my thankfully-out-of-date poem "Waiting for a Call to Tell Me I Can Get My First Shot of the Vaccine": https://www.fourthreethree.org/blog/w... Read more of this blog post »

Tænk engang, hvis man giver eleverne ro til at læse, og giver dem noget de også selv har lyst til at læse, så har det en positiv effekt på deres lyst til at læse.
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First drafts are for putting down your story. Focus on getting the story elements down.

#writingtips #writingadvice #amwriting

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Face of the Day – Horned treehopper (Alosextius carinatus): https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/4...

Thoughts on the Ribbon Cutting of the St. Louis Gateway Arch National Park & MuseumImage via Lyda Krewson (Facebook)

It has only been two hours since I saw the photo above (taken July 3, 2018) that includes Mayor Lyda Krewson (amongst other older, white representatives of the project) at the ribbon c

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I always enjoy discovering quirky scraps of information about writers I admire. It offers a valuable insight of them as human beings and helps to expand them in my mind beyond their craft.

With that in mind, here’s 10 fun facts about me. If you keep up with my blog then you probably already know a fe Read more of this blog post »

Pilgrims with Blades: A02 Grandfather's Castle Coming soon!

As many readers may know, a lot of my characters were born in role-playing games prior to landing in my book pages. I tend to think up complex histories and delve deeply into the character's motivations and fears. This book series, above oth Read more of this blog post »

"If you are a writer you locate yourself behind a wall of silence and no matter what you are doing, driving a car or walking or doing housework you can still be writing because you have that space."
- Joyce Carol Oates

"When I sit down at my writing desk, time seems to vanish. I think it's a wonderfu Read more of this blog post »