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Scenes from Tonight’s Reading

The night was a success! I read from the stories “Lyes” and “Zora’s Destiny”. I sold all copies of the book. Thanks to the GallAerie for hosting the reading, and to A Stranger in Alps for the great music!

Pictures by Christian Crowley and Chris Herrmann

 

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REMINDER: Skin Deep Magic Book Release Party on October 11, 2014

My book release party is this Saturday! I will be reading from my new book!

 

The GallAerie

1644 Newton Street NW

Washington DC 20010

8 PM – 12 AM

Scheduled bands:

Stranger in the Alps

There will be door prizes and a reading by me.

Facebook Event Link

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My Green Man story: Notes on “Sapling”

I grew up next to Rock Creek Park, a large, urban park that runs throughout Washington, DC. Deer, possum, raccoons and the occasional owl were as much of my childhood landscape as were heavy traffic, presidential motorcades, and the Smithsonian. As a child, I would often go into the forest and dream up wild adventures for the characters I created in my head. I saw a majestic stag once, who glanced at me for one eerie moment, before bounding away. There were hawks in the park, too, circling above with their impressively long wings. I didn’t need a wardrobe-shaped portal; another world was literally steps away. “Sapling,” my story about a very different kind of Green Man, is an homage to Rock Creek Park, and by extension, all such sanctuaries embedded in the urban terrain.

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Author copies of Skin Deep Magic have arrived!

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“Bereft,” my YA novel, won a Bronze Moonbeam Award!

The 2014 Moonbeam Children’s Book Awards were announced yesterday. The Moonbeam Awards are about, “Celebrating Youthful Curiosity, Discovery and Learning through Books and Reading”

Bereft placed third in the “Young Adult Fiction-Mature Issues” category–the Bronze Medal.

My publisher, Tiny Satchel Press, also had another win: Drifting by Lisa R. Nelson won the Silver medal.

Writing is such a solitary pursuit; it’s great to get recognition every now and then.

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Guest Blog about “Skin Deep Magic”

Author and editor Catherine Lundoff hosted me on her blog. I discussed the inspiration behind the collection. You can read it here.

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Interview with Author Darin Bradley

I interviewed Darin Bradley, author of the dystopian novel Chimpanzee, for the Washington Independent Review of Books. You can read it here.

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Chelsea Station Magazine has an excerpt from SKIN DEEP MAGIC

The good folks* over at Chelsea Station Magazine published an excerpt from SKIN DEEP MAGIC: the story “Conjuring Shadows.” I hope that it whets your appetite!

*Thanks to Jameson Currier

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Skin Deep Magic Liner Notes: On “Psychometry, or Gone With the Dust”

It started with a Golliwog. My late Aunt Lou was going to London to visit the tea and coffee museum there. She collected teapots, (when she died with over 800 of them in her collection). She would be accompanied by her best friend, who I’ll call Kay. Kay had her own agenda. Kay collected black […]

Book Birthday: Skin Deep Magic, my 3rd book, is now released into the wild!

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