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November + December 2018 Doings!

So, yeah, I missed the November Doings! post. I blame finals or something. And now I get to sum up two months in one post at the busiest time of year. Why do I do this to myself? Oh well.
Writing!
Mechanical Heart basically consumed my life for the last two months, as far as writing goes. In my second rewrite, I planned to rearrange a few scenes, give Josiah's sister a slightly bigger roll, and expand a few scenes and elements so things would flow more slowly. The story would expand by maybe fi...

End-of-Year Book Freakout 2018!

Aaaaand it's back! The End-of-Year Book Freakout! I'm not calling it a tag anymore because I havne't been tagged and I'm not tagging anyone, haha. I think I've had a reasonably good reading year — my average rating was 4.1, which isn't bad. Though, let's be real, it's been a really long year, and I can barely remember what I read in July. Thank God for Goodreads. (In my defense, I read 107 books this year, and about 45 of those were since July.) And technically 2018 isn't quite over, so I'll...

Christmas Special: The Promise Star

Merry Christmas, everyone! However you celebrate, I hope you enjoy my Christmas gift to you: a holiday short story from the world of Blood in the Snow . . . where they don't actually celebrate Christmas, but I figured out their equivalent, so we're all good. 

"Please, Father, may I have just one more story?
Her father, the emperor of a great kingdom, shakes his head and stands. "It grows late, my snow-flower. You need sleep or you will be tired and grumble through the whole Promise celebra...

Ilyon & Acktar Blog Tour Author Interview

Hey'a, everyone! Sorry for the general silence of late; final projects and Christmas preparations have been taking up most of my time. I do have something fun for today, though! I'm joining up with Jaye L. Knight and Tricia Mingerink's awesome double tour for Bitter Winter and Decree! I love the Ilyon Chronicles, and I really want to read the Blades of Acktar series, so I'm really excited to be here. I got to interview the authors for this tour, and we'll get to that in a minute . . . but fir...

Winter 2018-2019 Reads!

Hey'a, everyone! Sorry I disappeared for a bit. I'm back now, though! I'm sure most of us are busy trying to knock out some of our TBR lists while we have free time on Christmas break . . . but I'm here to help fill them back up with Winter 2018-2019 Reads! As always, this is my list of all the books I'm excited for (or, y'know, marginally interested in) this reading season.

Winter 2018-2019 Reads
1. Bitter Winter by Jaye L. Knight (December 14). This one's already out, actually, and I'm joinin...

Rothana Blog Tour: Interview With Sarah Delena White

Hello, everyone! This is a bit late due to technical difficulties on one end, but I'm joining up with the blog tour for Rothana, Sarah Delena White's latest release! Rothana is the sequel to Halayda, which I read this past summer and quite enjoyed. Today, I have an interview with Sarah . . . but first, a little bit about the book and author.

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Mechanical Heart Snippets

Hey'a, everyone! Thanksgiving break was awesome, but coming back kind of hit me like a punch to the face (especially since I had several projects that I intended to work on but didn't . . . oops). And the blog tour that I was going to participate in is currently experiencing technical difficulties. So, I'm going with something easy for this week's post: Mechanical Heart snippets. Enjoy!

 Mechanical Heart Snippets1. First up, we have Josiah and Luis on the sensibility of staying up late (a...

A Symphony of Thanks: A Fight Song Holiday Special

Happy Thanksgiving to all my American readers! I want to start doing some holiday specials featuring characters from different works of mine, and we're starting today. I hope you enjoy!

 A Symphony of ThanksPeople say city streets are chaotic, and they're right. But the busiest street has nothing on my family's kitchen on Thanksgiving morning.

By all rights, no one should have room to move in here. Every inch is packed with people; the oven and the counters and the table are all full of fo...

Types of Tears (A Poem)

Everything's fine, don't worry. This is just something I've had reason to think about this past week, and I decided to share the results with you.

The Types of Tears 

i. There are tears of sorrow,tears that overflow the soul with longing for what is lostor what never was.Bad enough, your own tears,but worse, a friend's,whose sadness you cannot wipe away.
ii.There are tears of pain,of agony your body cannot bear,or worse,of a deeper ache within your soul,of a heart torn asunder,of hopes...

October 2018 Doings!

So, anyone else think October felt like an abnormally short month? Yeah, me too, especially the last couple weeks. It's just been one thing after another all month. That means I've spent a lot of time feeling stressed . . . but on the upside, it means this should be a fairly interesting Doings! post.
Writing!
So, just in case you missed it, I published a book! Blood in the Snow officially released on Kindle on October 26 with the rest of the Magic Mirrors tour. If you didn't get a chance to rea...