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Contest to win Cold Copper

There’s a contest to win a galley of COLD COPPER on Facebook! Here’s the link.

COLD COPPER is the third book in my steampunk series and takes the characters we met in DEAD IRON and TIN SWIFT onward to new (and of course dangerous) adventures as they cross the states searching for pieces of the deadliest weapon ever built before it falls into the wrong hands.

Here’s the gorgeous cover by artist Cliff Nielsen:

Here’s the quick blurb on the back:

In steam age America, men, monsters, machines, and ma...

Dead Iron for your pocket

DEAD IRON is now officially out in mass market paperback!

That means it is now available in the same size as the Allie Beckstrom books, and the same (cheaper) price too!

I am so excited about this! I LOVE paperback format (okay, I love Trade format too, but I was raised on paperbacks and still love them best) and I have to say DEAD IRON looks pretty darn cunning in this compact format.

So if you missed the series when it came out in Trade a couple years ago, now might be a great time to jump in!...

Cover Reveal – Hell Bent

Over the weekend I got a tweet asking if the cover for HELL BENT that was floating around the internet was okay to share. I replied that I still had a draft version of the cover, and hadn’t gotten the go-ahead to share yet from my publisher, but that I’d check.

So I checked. And I’m happy to say that YES! The cover for HELL BENT is final and ready to be revealed.

I want to take a moment and thank the people who contacted me *before* posting the cover. I know it’s nearly impossible for the autho...

Release Day – Life Between Dreams

Fiction River – Unnatural Worlds is officially out today!

This fantastic anthology is filled with terrific stories from authors: Ray Vukcevich, Esther M. Friesner, Irette Y. Patterson, Kellen Knolan, Annie Reed, Dean Wesley Smith, Kristine Kathryn Rusch, Leah Cutter, Richard Bowes, Jane Yolen, and David Farland, (and yes, me too!) and is edited by Dean Wesley Smith and Kristine Kathryn Rusch.

My short story in the anthology is titled: LIFE BETWEEN DREAMS. While it isn’t set in the Allie Beckstr...

Onward to Step One

I’ve spent the last week trying to get my brain in the right place for writing STONE COLD, book #2 in the Broken Magic series. Maybe, maybe I’ve finally figured out the right way to approach it.

I don’t know why this book has been so challenging to get started. It could be because this is a two book series at this point, so book #2 has to do the work of tying off everything from book #1 (HELL BENT), tell a great story, and wrap everything up for the series. That’s asking the book to carry some...

Road to The End

Copyright (c) 123RF Stock Photos

Last week I finished off the editorial revisions for HELL BENT. Editorial revision are based on the edit letter I get from my editor. She points out things that worked for her and also things she feels are lacking or confusing. It is up to me to decide how to implement changes or adjustments to the book, keeping in mind that she has the fresh eyes on this project and knows her stuff (while also keeping in mind my vision for the book.)

I wanted this book to be...

Plotting and Planting

I finished the revisions on HELL BENT and sent it off to my editor on Wednesday, so then I took a little time to clean up my web page a bit. If you go poking around, you’ll see a page for HELL BENT, (under Books: Broken Magic: Hell Bent) an updated short story page (under Books: short stories), and some of my friends’ books that will be coming out this month (down there on the side bar).

I am also turning my attention to a few other things around the house. We intend to expand our garden this...

Cold Copper ARCs – First Comes, First Wins

Two (2) ARCs of COLD COPPER are unclaimed. As promised in this post, I am now giving them away to the first TWO (2) people who comment here on my blog.

Ready! Go!

Cooking Oregon – Applesauce Cake 1

I have this 1964 cookbook that belonged to my grandmother or one of my aunties, I think. The cover has fallen off and the spiral binding has disintegrated. It was printed here in Salem by a local press that is still around (Your Town Press) and it carries this exciting title:

FABULA’S FAMOUS RECIPES by Oregon’s Finest Cooks!
Oregon Farm Bureau Women!

And yes, that is a 1960′s beaver housewife you’re looking at there.

This book is a collection of recipes from the ladies all across Oregon, and it...

Winners! Cold Copper ARCs

The random number picker has spoken! Here are the 6 winners of signed COLD COPPER ARCs. Please contact me with your mailing address by clicking on the little envelope button in the upper right of this blog.

Congratulations, winners!

If I don’t hear back from winners by next Wednesday, April 3, I will do a first-come first-win giveaway of the remaining prizes here on the blog that evening.

Big thank you to everyone for entering the giveaway!

muddybeagle who said: I am so excited that I am typing t...