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Rage's Echo--A Special Offer

It's spring again! Or is it? With this crazy weather, it's hard to tell.

Anyway...

Last spring I republished my supernatural thriller Rage's Echo with a brand-new cover. The story inside is exactly the same--Rage's Echo basically went through a makeover that only changed its appearance, not its content.

The old cover
The new cover
Very nice, yes?
Here is my dilemma: I still have lots of first-edition copies of Rage's Echo that I have yet to find homes for. (I had stocked up on 300+ copies, not...

Throwback Thursday: A Tale of Two Promises

It's been nearly a year since I last posted on this blog. (For shame, J. S. For shame.) Today I emerge from my hiatus to bring you "A Tale of Two Promises," a short story I penned at the tender age of fifteen.

Before you read, I offer two observations. 1.) I don't believe I have ever showed this story to anyone else in these last 12 years, so you're welcome. 2.) I had a rather warped sense of humor back then.
















Stories with morals. Gotta love 'em.

New BHCAuthors Website—Connecting Readers to Authors

Last year I chose to partner with Blue Harvest Creative to help me publish Solitude, Servant, and novels yet to come, and now Blue Harvest Creative is excited to announce the next generation of independence has arrived!


Welcome to the BHC Authors website—a place dedicated to bringing readers and authors together. If you love to read, this is the place to be. Find a new favorite genre or author. Check out new releases and titles. Or enter a giveaway or promotion.
Here’s what you’ll find when you...

Meet Bobby Roland

Bobby Roland knows things he shouldn't, and I'll tell you why: he has a gift. Or is it a curse?

For those Bobby has saved, his gift is a blessing. He has premonitions of disaster, you see. So it's up to him to rescue those who find themselves at death's door.

Bobby, of course, is the young hero of The Chronicles of Servitude. Servant, the first novel of the series, was released in November 2014, but the idea for Servant was brewing long before that.

About five years ago, my husband suggested tha...

So I'm Rewriting a Novel...

The Land Beyond the Portal, my first published novel, is actually the second novel I ever completed. (At some point after I'd started writing it, I put it away for a few years and wrote a novel about shapeshifting lizard aliens called Solorthians. It is unlikely, for reasons needless to state, that this novel will ever see the light of day.)

Back to The Land Beyond the Portal. I finished the first draft in 2010. It was released in 2011. In 2012 I poured my heart out writing Rage's Echo, and wh...

New New Name, and Other Updates

This blog has a new name, folks.

Again.

In the olden days, it was Where Daylight Fades. Then it was Brain Problems!

And now it is The Lonely Artist, which is more fitting than the others (even though my brain does indeed malfunction approximately 98.2% of the time).

I've been The Lonely Artist over at Read Write Muse for the past several months, and I felt it was time to make the change here, as well. Being an artist *is* often a lonely endeavor. We sit alone for hours each day refining our craft...

It's Been HOW Many Years???

I started writing my first novel, The Land Beyond the Portal, in 2003.

That was twelve years ago. I was fourteen years old.

My writing has changed a lot since the days I sat down with a ballpoint pen and notebook and began to write the story that wouldn't be seen by the reading public for another eight years. Just for fun, here are some pictures from that notebook. (Don't mind the terrible penmanship. Apparently it's a requirement for authors to have bad handwriting.)




Somehow through the joys of...

Be Polite, Stupid!

I have been a published author for four years. In those four years, I have had a lot of book signings. I’ve had signings at cafes and bagel shops and pizza places. I’ve had signings at craft fairs and antique machinery shows. I once signed books during Bingo at my old church, and even braved 40-degree weather sitting outside signing books at a donut shop, but then I caught a cold.On April 27, 2014 I had my second-ever signing at a bookstore. The store employees set a table up by the...

A Belated New Year

I'm always the sort of person who lags behind. I still don't own a smart phone. My Christmas tree is still up. I put up my 2015 calendar yesterday. That water bill I've been meaning to pay is still sitting on the table amid a bunch of crap I need to clean off of it.

I haven't even set up any events yet this year. I should probably be ashamed of myself.

What HAVE I been doing, you ask?

Well, I've been writing, catching up with my reading, and staying inside with my cats where it's warm.



With kitti...

Servant: The Chronicles of Servitude, Book 1

Servant has been released.



It has a shiny new cover (it's a long story why I ultimately could not use the first one, which was beautiful), and is my thickest novel to date, which is a little bit misleading since it's printed on thicker paper than my previous two novels. I mean, it DOES have more words than the other two, but if it was printed on the same kind of paper as the other two, it wouldn't be as thick as it is.

Wait, am I rambling? [glances around nervously]

Anyway.

Servant has been more...