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July 1, 2014
Speed Giveaway – House Immortal
GIVEAWAY IS OVER. Those speedy fingers were extra speedy today. 
This is the speed giveaway!
Comment, quick!
The first three people who comment on this post will received an advanced reader copy of HOUSE IMMORTAL.
Good luck!
June 24, 2014
Winners! House Immortal ARCs
A big thank you to readers for entering the giveaway for early copies of the first book in my new trilogy: HOUSE IMMORTAL.
I fired up the random number generator, and the winners are:
Tanya R. Monroe who said: LOVED the Allie Beckstrom and Breakers books. Can’t wait to get my hands on this new series!!!
Jen Schaper who said: This sounds like a great new series! I’d love to win a copy
courtney who said: I love reading all of your books
Julie who said: Cool! I love ARCS, but then I’m a very impatie...
June 17, 2014
House Immortal ARC givaway
I have six (6!) shiny advance reader copies of HOUSE IMMORTAL, book #1 in my new trilogy, that I am giving away!
Things you should know:
This is what the ARCs look like:
No pretty cover and plenty of pre-proof typos inside for your reading amusement. Here’s the pretty cover, just in case you missed it.
HOUSE IMMORTAL comes out September 2nd, so winners of the ARC will be getting their hands on this book two and a half months early!
How do you win?
Leave a comment here on my blog and I will use the...
June 10, 2014
Plot Talk
I am blogging over on the Deadline Dames today, and this post is also available there.
Brace yourself, people. I’m going to talk plotting. *waits for room to empty*
Okay, now that it’s just the two of us here, I’m going to tell you how I plot a novel. Well, I’m going to tell you the tools I use to plot a novel.
Fair warning: this is a long post, and I’ve probably talked about some of this before. But it seemed like a good time to bring it up again, especially since I’ve been stuck plotting lat...
June 3, 2014
Speed Giveaway! – Closed
Giveaway is over. The books are claimed! Thanks for playing, everyone!
Happy reading!!
The first two (2) people to comment, win a signed mass market copy of TIN SWIFT.
Good luck, speedy fingers!
May 27, 2014
Winners – Tin Swift!
Big thank you to everyone who entered this giveaway! I loved all your comments, and can assure you that the pumpkin pie actually was good with a little chili powder in it–but only a little! I added extra cinnamon and a bit of sugar to balance it out and it was delicious!
Now…the random number generator has spoken and the winners of a signed, mass market TIN SWIFT are:
mneme - who said: Comment! Those are lovely looking pies! I’m very fond of adding chili pepper derivatives to sweet things, and...
May 21, 2014
Tin Swift Giveaway
Today is not Tuesday. It is Wednesday. I am blogging, which means I broke my blog-every-Tuesday streak. Why did I break the streak? Well, instead of blogging, I baked pies for our watch party of the season finale of Supernatural.
Here are the pies:
That’s chocolate cream, cherry, pumpkin, blackberry/raspberry crumble and rum caramel banana cream.
Since I am a bit deadline foggy-brained, I was a little distracted when I was baking.
Did you know that chili powder sprinkled in a pum...
May 13, 2014
Age of Steam series
Over the last year or so, readers have asked me if I’m going to finish the Age of Steam steampunk series. As it stands now, there are three novels and one short story in the series, um…in this order:
1.DEAD IRON
1.5. HANG FIRE (short story, Kindle only at this point)
2. TIN SWIFT
3. COLD COPPER
If you’ve read these novels, you know there is an almost-guaranteed plot for 7 books, what with all the bits of that pesky world-destroying device our heroes need to find. At the end of Cold Copper, things...
May 6, 2014
Random updates x 3
Writing: If you’ve been following along, you know that copy edits for HOUSE IMMORTAL were due last Wednesday. I tore through the entire book in Word, marking and changing as I went, and then I printed the book out and read through it a second time, hand-marking changes, which I then input into the document.
I am happy to say that I turned the copy edits in on time! Yay! This is the book that will come out in September. Since it is the start of a new series, I am both excited and nervous about...
April 29, 2014
Done/Not Done
Last week when I checked in, I mentioned I’d be plowing through copy edits for HOUSE IMMORTAL all week. Well, I was right. About an hour ago, I finished going through the entire book. Since copy edits aren’t due until tomorrow, I’ve printed the book and am going to give it a quick read to see if the changes I made make sense.
Remember, this is my last chance to really change anything on a large scale, so I want it to be as good as it can be.
Then I’ll write up the Acknowledgement and Dedication...
