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Announcing a New Charm City Darkness Novel!

This is NOT the cover of In the Eye of the Beholder. But I needed to put something here to catch your eye, right?

There’s been a lot of silence on the blog lately, for this reason: I’ve been working on a new Charm City Darkness novel–which was supposed to be a novella.

Ever have a project take over your life?

This one has taken over my writing life. It was meant to be a short writing hiatus between books three and four (A Blue Collar Proposition and, “As Yet Unnamed”) and it turned into a mon...

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Happy New Year! Have You Planned Your 2017 Yet?

Happy New Year!

I wish you peace, joy, prosperity and health in 2017!

Also: I wish you fulfillment of all your goals.

Did I mention resolutions? Nope.

I don’t believe in resolutions. Resolutions are something most people make between the countdown to the new year and the champagne they drink at 12:01. Almost no one sticks to their resolutions. I gave up making them more than a decade ago.

Instead, I make goals for the new year. I plan — which is not to say that things never hit the fan and l...

Happy Thanksgiving!

Happy Thanksgiving!

I’m one of the crazy travelers today! And I can’t wait to get together with my family and eat lots of terrific (and terrible for me) food! I’m bringing my eclair ring – which, after slaving over it, I won’t want to eat! (Isn’t that terrible?)

So: wishing you and yours safe travels and fabulous get-togethers! I hope the food is terrific, and the desserts even more so!

Good Read Giveaway – In a Cat’s Eye

Pole to Pole Publishing is hosting a Goodreads Giveaway for the book In a Cat’s Eye, edited by me and Vonnie Winslow Crist. Giveaway ends November 11.

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Blue Collar Proposition – Featured Over at Novelisty

A Blue Collar Proposition–the third book in the Charm City Darkness series–was featured over at Novelisty.com on October 1 as part of their 31 Days of Halloween!

(It’s lovely to be featured, but I wish I’d known about it! I’d have dropped a link here much sooner!)

Novelisty featured a “heat-rating” and a few pertinent details about the book, as well as included the back cover copy and an excerpt. If you want to read the first chapter or so, head on over to Novelisty’s 31 Days of Halloween.

Capclave Schedule 2016

I hope you will come out to Capclave this weekend and say, “Hello!”

I’ll be around all day on Saturday and through Sunday around 2.

My schedule:

Saturday:
11:30 a.m. Autograph Table in Author’s Hall
3:00p.m. When Should You Remain Stubborn, Bethesda
10:00 pm. Broad Universe Reading, Rockville/Potomac

(I’ll likely read from my latest Charm City Darkness novel, A Blue Collar Proposition.)

Sunday:
Noon: Cats in Science Fiction and Fantasy, Rockville/Potomac

The noon panel is so serendipitous...

Cover Reveal – In a Cat’s Eye

Isn’t she a beauty?

Here’s the cover for the new anthology I’m co-editing with Vonnie Winslow Crist.

Authors included are: Gail Z. Martin, Jody Lynn Nye, Alex Shvartsman, Gregory L. Norris, Steven R. Southard, Jeremy M. Gottwig, A. L. Sirois, Oliver Smith, A. L. Kaplan, Doug C. Souza, Christine Lucas, K. I. Borrowman, Joanna Hoyt, R. S. Pyne and Sir Arthur Conan Doyle.

Character Guest Post – A Few Words from Pournelle Ahb— : A #HoldOnToTheLight Post

Today’s guest post is by Pournell Ahb— Well, we don’t know his full name, since he’s a demon. That would give us too much power over him. He first turned up in the Charm City Darkness novel, A Favor for a Fiend, and has been around ever since. Lately, he parlayed himself into an alliance, of sorts, with Assumpta. He’d like to talk to you today about battling depression.

He’s got a lot on his plate. He’s a demon, after all. He’s not looking forward to the afterlife. Just because he is what he...

Baltimore Landmarks and Locations: The Phoenix Shot Tower

Photo by Bruce Andersen

Since I’m asked fairly regularly about the places featured in my Charm City Darkness novels, I’ve decided to share some of my research. (Yes, I do research, even in my own backyard.) When you grow up around local landmarks, you tend to pick up the basics via osmosis. But to talk intelligently in books, I find it’s best to get my facts straight…)

This is the first of a series of posts about Baltimore landmarks and locations.

The Phoenix Shot Tower

I grew up knowing the t...