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Cover and Title Reveal: Darkness Rising

 
At long last, here is the cover for the second book in the Into the Shadows Trilogy, titled Darkness Rising. Due to a busy publishing schedule this summer at DarkSide and my own busy schedule, I'll be pushing back my expected release date on Darkness Rising to Winter 2012. I was lucky enough to find a model that had pictures with different colored hair, as you see here, so she fits Paivi's new

Back to the Grind...

Forgive me if I've been a little absent the last week or so. I've been enjoying my last days of sleeping in and getting things done before school starts on Monday. For those of you that don't know, I teach German (and sometimes French) at a high school in the Chicago suburbs. I'm feeling a little like Phineas and Ferb and trying to cram in as many things as I can before the summer ends. As always

Free Ebooks For You? Yes Indeedy!

I'm always looking for a way to thank my readers. So I've decided that it's a good weekend for a giveaway. Always wanted a copy of Into the Shadows or Bloody Little Secrets for your Nook, Kindle, iPad, whatever and never gotten around to picking up a copy? Get one now, free of charge, direct from the author.

Yeah, that's right. 
FREE. 
No dollars. 
No gimmicks either.
How do you go about

Hey Book Bloggers...

I love Book Bloggers. They're great folks and do a lot for readers, leading them to some great books.

To make requesting a review copy of my books easier, I've created a separate page for Book Bloggers to contact me.

Click below or on the tab at the top of the page, fill out the form and I'll get back to you as soon as I can!


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What Harry Potter Means to Me

This month has been a bit of an emotional one. After more than a decade of Harry Potter, it's all come to an end, (on my birthday, July 15th, no less). Over. I have to admit, never in my life have I felt like I've ate, drank, and breathed something as I have Harry Potter. Every book, every movie, was a moment.

For most of the books even, I can remember where I bought them. The first couple were

Into the Shadows Gets A Facelift

I'm super excited to reveal the new cover for Into the Shadows, which you can see here on the left. While I thought the original cover was great, Carl Graves does wonderful work, when I thought about the covers for the rest of the series, I wanted something a little different. Obviously, I really needed all the covers to match, that was important. And I really have a thing for people on the cover

I AM a Mature Adult...Or That's What I'm Supposed to Be...

I, for some reason, decided to count the amount of t-shirts in my closet last night and guess how many t-shirts I happen to own? 75. SEVENTY-FIVE T-SHIRTS. This only counts casual and cozy wear (casual means I can wear them with jeans, cozy with sweats). This does not count t-shirts for my job (add another 10) and t-shirts only for sleeping or working out, and a box of t-shirts from high school

Revision Overload

Do you cook? I don't often (that's the lovely husband's job because he loves it), but when I do take on some large-scale cooking, I find that by the time the product comes out of the oven I no longer want to eat it. Or even taste it. It doesn't mean what I made isn't good, I don't know, it's like I'm over it already!

I finished revisions for The Green the other day and while I'm pretty sure the

Very Full Plate

I was very excited for this summer - I figured I'd have a ton of time to work on new things and wrap up The Green for publishing. I never figured the foot surgery would wipe out so much time and energy. Good news there is I'm finally walking without crutches, now just need to get back to walking normal! In any case, I've got some great things started and near finished at this point, so hopefully,

Summer of Harry Potter: Not Gonna Make It!

I can't believe it, I'm actually going to fail. I'm not going to complete my own Harry Potter-reading-all-the-books challenge. I did make it halfway through Prisoner of Azkaban. My plan now is to jump ahead and read Deathly Hallows one last time before next Friday. Really, time just got away from me. The foot surgery slowed down all aspects of my life, even reading, because I wasn't feeling up to