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Back from vacation

Sorry I didn’t post a snippet last Monday, but Derek and I were on vacation at his family’s mountain cabin. While I got plenty of R&R, I also wrote A LOT. My self-imposed deadline for the Tam & Raine novella is October 1, so between now and then I’m “on deadline.” After that, I promise […]

The Grendel Affair now available on Audible.com!

I just got the word the audiobook production of THE GRENDEL AFFAIR is complete, and it’s now available at Audible.com for your purchasing and listening enjoyment! I was so excited to be able to select the narrator for the SPI Files series. She’s Johanna Parker, and in addition to the incredible list of credits below, […]

Wickedly Dangerous

Yesterday marked the debut of Deborah Blake’s Baba Yaga series with Wickedly Dangerous! Wickedly Wonderful will follow on December 2. I’ve included descriptions and links below. Go, buy, read, and enjoy! Wickedly Dangerous – In paperback and ebook at Amazon,  Barnes & Noble and through independent bookstores via IndieBound. Older than she looks and powerful beyond […]

Snippet from The Dragon Conspiracy

Here’s a snippet set in the office at SPI headquarters: “Kenji, we need you to check the database—” “For gorgons,” the elf finished for Ian. “Just sent the report to your phones.” We looked down. Sure enough. The elf knew it was us without even looking away from his screen. His fingers never slowed from […]

A pedicure for a hedgehog

My niece Nicole is studying this semester in South Africa, and of course, couldn’t take her pet hedgehog Luna with her. Miss Luna is staying with Nicole’s boyfriend until December when Nicole comes back home. In the meantime, Luna needed her nails done. Way back, when I graduated from college, I worked for a year […]

Snippet Monday — How to tell if a werewolf is nervous

For your Monday reading enjoyment, a snippet from THE DRAGON CONSPIRACY: Illuminated for an instant against the orange blaze was a harpy. One claw-tipped hand went to her chest, and came away clutching something small. Hovering above the flaming wreck, she reached over with her other hand and pulled . . . Harpies with hand […]

Snippet Monday — Introducing Kylie O’Hara

Here’s a snippet from THE DRAGON CONSPIRACY for your Monday reading enjoyment: It was after midnight. There was too much happening too fast to even think about getting any sleep. What had happened at the Met and to us on the way back to headquarters had activated SPI’s version of DEFCON 2. Supernatural creatures had […]

What Tam looks like

Ask, and I shall answer. The cover for Midwinter by Matthew Sturgis is the closest I’ve ever seen to how I envision Tam. The artist is the utterly fabulous Chris McGrath. Yep, there’s a cover model running around NY who looks that indescribably yummy. Rawr. Click on the photo to make it larger (because you [...]

When Raine met Tam

Just a quick FYI to make quite a few of you very happy. I’m now writing the novella I’ve promised you — the story of what happened way back (actually between two and three years ago in “Raine world” time) when Raine first met Tam. The event was alluded to in Magic Lost, Trouble Found [...]

Snippet Monday — The Dragon Conspiracy

For your Monday reading enjoyment, here’s a big snippet from The Dragon Conspiracy. I’m not sure if you’ve heard from this character before. Rake Danescu is a goblin (yep, a sexy goblin in the tradition of Tam Nathrach). He owns the most exclusive “adult entertainment” club in Manhattan. He’ll be featured in my novella “Lucky [...]