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Salem's Daughters Blog Tour Kickoff, Fun Facts About Cats, and Question of the Month

Hi everyone and thanks for stopping by! Monday morning bright and early I’m kicking off my Salem’s Daughters’ Blog Tour at Ninja Captain Alex Cavanaugh’s blog. Thank you Alex! 

For a full itinerary, click the self-named TAB at the top. 
Salem’s Daughter’s Creepy fun for the whole family. Except the kids. 

Question of the Month Who would play me in a movie? Tough call. But I’ll have to go with The Most Interesting Man In The World. This is a fast and fun once-a-month Blogfest broug...

It's Official and The Weekend Follies Star Trek Style aka Hikaru Sulu

It’s Official My fourth novel, Salem’s Daughters, is officially released! I’m not kicking off festivities until Monday October 5th at the Ninja Captain’s blog though. A great big thanks to Alex Cavanaugh for helping me with tour stop number one of the Salem’s Daughters Blog Tour. Select above TAB for a complete blog tour itinerary. 
This tour will be a lot of fun as I have a diverse array of topics in lined up. Unlike my previous three tour stops for the Breakthrough Series, there will be...

Salem’s Daughters Blog Tour Schedule

Hi everyone, as always, thanks for stopping by! Well, it’s finally here. The Salem’s Daughters Blog Tour. Just look at this star-studded, All-star lineup of incredible writers and bloggers. I have some great topics lined up and hope you stop by to say hello. So with no further ado, here they are: 
Monday October 5th – The ninja himself Alex Cavanaugh. Introducing the Ladies. The thirteen cats, errr …. witches, erm, rather the disembodied souls inhabiting cats and their unique abilities wh...

Deep Space Here We Come, The Martian, and Kepler Space Telescope

Deep Space Here We Come: Last week Jeff Bezos and his company Blue Origin announced they want millions of humans living in space and he is going to do his best — and spend whatever it takes — to make that happen. NASA recently awarded two contracts to Deep Space Industries Inc. to accelerate the agency’s plans to partner with private industry on asteroid prospecting and harvesting. Elon Musk with SpaceX and Sir Richard Branson of Virgin Galactic are incredible deep space visionaries.&nbs...

Cover Reveal, Autumn, and Football!

Hi everyone, as always thanks for stopping by and saying hello! Autumn is right around the corner and a new season is in the air. We transition from a time of heat, humidity, and kids home for the summer into a cooler season. Halloween and Thanksgiving will be here before we know it. 
I love Fall. It’s my favorite season. This is the perfect time to release Salem’s Daughters. I’m so glad I pushed the date forward. Twice. This gave me time to receive much needed feedback from my ARC reader...

Not Much To Talk About Post

Not Much To DoWell, not much to talk about this week. I’m finalizing posts for my upcoming Salem’s Daughters Blog Tours, doing yet one more final line edit, and taking care of promotional loose ends and such. 
Next Book Series: I’m already looking ahead to a new M/G and Y/A series. Think Percy Jackson in a Sci-fi role 150 years in the future as we continue to explore ….. ah, I’ll hold off a bit on the specifics. 
But I should announce the details by the end of the year as I have quite...

Insecure Writers Support Group and Cover Reveal for Salem's Daughters

Hello everyone, and as always thanks for stopping by. It’s that time of month again for Alex J. Cavannaugh’s Insecure Writers Support Group. His co-hosts this month are Julie Flanders, Murees Dupe, Delorah at Book Lover, Christine Raines, and Heather Gardner. 
I have my fourth novel Salem’s Daughters coming out October 1st, just in time for Halloween. So what’s my concern this month? Reading through the text again and again and fixing things. 
ARC Readers: A big thanks to my ARC (Adva...

Insecure Writers Support Group and D-oh!

Hi everyone, It’s that time again for the monthly Insecure Writers Support Group, hosted by Alex J. Cavanaugh. The Co-hosts for June are Nancy Gideon, Bob R. Milne, Doreen McGettigan, Chrys Fey, Bish Denham, and Pat Garcia. 

 My concern this month, forgetting all about IWSG while I’m on break. D-oh! I mean, how easy is it to post once a month, the first Wednesday of said month? But it happened. Just getting up here on the Left Coast and drinking that first cup of coffee when it...

Cherished Blogfest

Cherished Blogfest Sponsored by Damyanti Biswas, Dan Antion, Paul Ruddock, Peter Nena, and Sharukh Bamboat the purpose of this Blogfest is post on your blog about one of your cherished objects. 
Tell us what it is, post a picture of it if you like, and tell us why you cherish it. Keep your post to 500 words, and join us on the 24th, 25th and 26th of July 2015 in sharing memories, emotions, information. 
Place the Cherished badge on your sidebar, and help us spread the word on social m...

IWSG and More!!!

Hi everyone, It’s that time again for the monthly Insecure Writers Support Group, hosted by Alex J. Cavanaugh. The Co-hosts for June are Charity Bradford, S.A. Larsen, AJ Lauer, Tamara Narayan, Allison Gammons, and Tanya Miranda. 

Like most, if not all of you writers, I’m concerned about hooking the reading early. This can be accomplished by having that awesome first line. But a great first line isn’t necessarily necessary. But you should try to hook the reader by the first paragraph...