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Dark Moon trailer

With all the excitement about the short stories, I've nearly forgotten to post here about Dark Moon of Avalon. But it's just hit me today that the release date is less than a week from now! And I really am so excited to share this story. I shouldn't play favorites, but it many ways it was my favorite of the three Trystan and Isolde books to write.

I'll be posting more as the release date gets closer, of course. But for now here's the Dark Moon of Avalon book trailer, just to give everyone ...

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I get asked quite often about the research I do for my books. Now, I LOVE research. Love it. If I weren't a writer, I would be a historian, I love diving into the primary sources and scholarly studies and archaeology reports SO MUCH. I can go to the library and come out with a 3 foot high stack of books (just ask my poor husband who has to carry them home) and feel like my birthday has come early.

So, yes, I do tons of research. Tons that never even makes it into the books, because of...

Stay Tuned . . .

Thanks so much to everyone who has downloaded and read The Witch Queen's Secret! I hope you're enjoying it! I had such a wonderful time writing it and am so excited to get to share it with the world.

My husband did all the cover art and typesetting. Did I mention that? And I didn't even have to coat his fingers with jelly to get him to do it. He is just so great. Do I deserve him? Wait, don't answer that.

And now he's created another gorgeous cover and is working on the typesetting for a...

I'd Know You Anywhere

I usually dream in novel plots. Is this a writer thing? I just assumed everyone dreamed this way, but then I asked my husband and he looked at me like I had two heads. So, writer thing? Just me? I'm not sure, but I would say that in probably 90% of my dreams I'm not actually 'me'. Instead I'm a character in whatever novel plot my sleeping brain has come up with.

Last night my brain fiddled around with the usual few short flashes of dreams that the kids are crying or whatever, then...

Eat Pray Love

Have you read The Witch Queen's Secret yet? Oh, please, please go read The Witch Queen's Secret! It's free! And I love Dera SO much, I just want everyone else to read about her and love her, too.

But that actually wasn't why I was blogging today. I was blogging because this week I finally read Eat Pray Love by Elizabeth Gilbert. And I know Elizabeth Gilbert is (probably) not staying awake nights waiting to hear what I thought of her multi-million copy selling book. But it seems like...

Birthdays

My baby girl turns ONE this week! Ahhhh, how did that happen? She is doing so many new things like speaking (favorite words include 'mama', 'hi', and 'no'), waving, coloring with crayons, and she is THIS close to taking her first steps. But ONE. That is also THIS close to not being a baby anymore. And Bella? She will be FOUR this fall. Look, here were my girls a year ago:

And now look at them:

Dear Bella and Vivi,

All future birthdays are hereby canceled, as I am not allowing you to get a...

A Giveaway!

Wow, I can't believe the release of Dark Moon (Sept 14) is now just right around the corner! I'll have loads of news and announcements about it coming soon. But for now, here's an announcement for a drawing of a copy of Dark Moon or Twilight of Avalon, your choice. This is over on Libri Touches, which is run by the INCREDIBLY sweet Shanra who has donated an unbelievable amount of her time to do beta reading for me this year. Thanks, Shanra! And stop by to enter the giveaway!

A Funeral of the 'I can'ts'

I'm over at Writer Unboxed today, holding a public funeral for some of my writerly 'I can'ts', including "I can't be a pantser', 'I can't write in first person', and 'I can't write a sex scene.' Stop by!

Writing and Mothering: Updated

I've been meaning to update my 'writing and mothering' section for the last . . . um, year, now? Ever since Vivi was born, really. That I'm only just now finding the time tells you that yes, indeed, 2 kids is a whole 'nother world. I'll add this as an actual page to my site, but I thought it was worth posting here, as well: Writing and Mothering: Version 2.0

When I wrote the 'writing and mothering' section of this site, Bella was under two and an only child. Now she's three and a half...

a GIGANTIC contest!!

Therese Walsh, my blog sister over at Writer Unboxed, is holding the MOST amazing contest to celebrate the trade paperback release of her debut novel, The Last Will of Moira Leahy.

Fourty-nine authors–including me–are donating TWO copies of one of their books for a "My Sister and Me" contest on her facebook fan page. The idea being that if you're one of the winners, you'll have a copy of one of these books to keep and another copy to share–with a sister or a friend.

Isn't that awesome? I'm o...