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Lucifer’s Haven #thirteencovens

New in the Thirteen Covens Saga: The Lucifer’s Haven elders took in newcomer Connie Hudson the day she arrived. But the mentor assigned her, Jason, senses something off about the demur twenty-something blond from Boston. As if her bizarre behavior and strange questions aren’t enough, none of The Haven’s younger members can find any trace of the mysterious newcomer’s former life. When one of them is found face down in a river, and Jason thinks he has Connie figured out, the coven is approached...

Scheduling Revamp #amwriting

Every few months I have to revisit the schedule to see where I’m at in my plans. Because let’s face it – shit happens, things come up, and other things get shoved to the back burner when something else becomes a priority.

Well, in late May my health became a priority when I had to have an unexpected surgery to remove a mass from my lower abdomen. Luckily it was no more serious than the surgery itself, but it left me 2-4 weeks behind in writing on Taming Trish and some novella and short fictio...

Micrite 3D All Use Eye Cream #BeautyofMom

No, this isn’t a SPAM post. Every so often I try real products that I write honest reviews for. Sometimes I pay for those products and other times they’re given to me for my honest review. This product is the latter. I was given this product for free in exchange for an honest review.

I love eye cream. As I get older, it seems to be one of those things I use more often in my daily moisturizing regimen. I’ve tried them all. From Aveeno and Mary Kay to Avon and yes, Micrite 3D All Use Eye Cream...

Top Influences In Recent Years

The other day I wrote a post about two Irish writers who have deeply influenced me as both a reader and a writer in recent years. Someone asked me if I would share list of writers that have influenced my own work and explain why they were so influential. I decided it wouldn’t hurt. Mind you the list is always changing, growing, shrinking etc.

Here are thirteen (all I had time for)contemporary influences to my work in no particular order:

Stephen King. Kings early work was always a favorite o...

On Being A Female (Magician)

The following question was posted to my blog earlier today from a reader, and due to the nature of it, I thought the answer deserved its own blog post. Here is the question:

Off topic, but I guess this came up because of mother’s day. In recent times particularly on the internet there has been a lot of discussion about women what they should be like and what there place should be. You have feminists and counter feminists all telling women what they should do, with some saying its okay to subm...

How I Fell in Love With Two Irish Writers

I didn’t mean to. I mean, I’d heard about their books and people told me I should check out their work and so I did. I put Maeve Binchy’s Circle of Friends and Paul Murray’s An Evening of Long Goodbyeson my to-be-read list and that was that. For years those books sat on the TBR list, and for years I passed them over in favor of something new or popular. Finally, I read broke down and read Binchy’s Circle of Friends and realized something deeply intriguing about how she told stories. Somehow s...

Tracking Reading – What We Learn

Last year I finally decided I was going to make a concerted effort to actually track the books I read. Not only to see how much I was reading, but what I was reading. So around the end of April last year I started to track using Goodreads. After the first year was over I realized that while I missed out on tracking the first three, almost four, months of 2015, I wasn’t reading nearly as much as I thought I was. I’d only read 38 books last year. It made me re-examine how I was utilizing my rea...

No, Really, I’m Working!!

Earlier today I saw a writer posting about how someone she cohabitates with has decided that she doesn’t really work. Well no, not really. I mean writing, editing, blogging, social networking, texting, and sending emails to people isn’t work. That’s just fucking off. Right?

Sadly, she’s not the first writer I’ve met who has been told “Wow, you’re really lazy” by a friend, spouse, or family member. Even I have had the misfortune of someone tell me, “You’re so lazy! You haven’t moved from the c...

The Great Office Purge 2016

It’s that time again folks! The Great Office Purge 2016 is about to begin. Those of you who know me know the drill. Once every two to three years, whether it needs it or not, the office is purged. As I get older I realize why Grandma Connolly always discouraged gifts that collected dust, because quite frankly – at some point it goes into the declutter pile and unless it’s really loved – it ends up going to charity.

So this year I have designated several piles of crap that everything will go i...

Ascending Darkness!!!

The biggest name in occult television is dead.

When Lucien Groner, head of the Black Magick Network, is found ritually murdered in his Parker home, the police contact magus Elizabeth Tanner to help decipher the macabre crime scene. Meanwhile the OTS High Council instructs her to keep the Order’s reputation clean, but Liz has more pressing problems. Not only is she in hot water with her boss, but Mike’s mother doesn’t like her. She and Mike’s future together hangs in the balance, and Denver’s...