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Introducing the Real Jean Lafitte, Pirate, Privateer or Patriot?

First off, thanks to everyone who read and left such nice comments on the novelette "Jackson Square" this week! It was a fun story to write. I'll have it up for the rest of today (via the tab above), and tonight will take it down and will announce future plans for it soon. At that point it will have bonus content, including Jean's own account of Andrew Jackson and the War of 1812 (well, okay, I transcribed it for him), and a look at how the fictional Jean compares with the real man.

In the mea...

Feral Friday and a 4-Book #PNR Bundle

Happy Feral Friday--where my wild and out-of-control TBR pile gets pared down and passed along. First, thanks to all of you who stopped by this week to read and comment on JACKSON SQUARE! The story will be up on the site through Sunday.

Sunday, when I might just have a big announcement to make...

In the meantime, since we were off schedule this week thanks to the dastardly derring-do of Jean Lafitte, next week we've got an INSANE number of books to give away. There will be a Reader's Choice on...

A Pirate Plays Dirty--Jackson Square Now Complete and Online

Welcome to the final day of new material on "Jackson Square," a novelette featuring undead pirate Jean Lafitte taking on an undead Andrew Jackson in the world of the Sentinels of New Orleans. Click the tab or go to the link to read the whole story. It will remain up on the website through Sunday afternoon, and then will disappear into the ether! (Later available as a download with bonus material.)

Thanks to Leeanna at Leeanna.me for the review of Royal Street yesterday. She wasn't crazy about...

A Pirate's Tale: Free Read of "Jackson Square" Continues

Welcome to Day 3 of "Jean Lafitte Week" here at Preternatura! The third part of JACKSON SQUARE is posted , so you can scroll down to III and keep reading.

I had originally planned to run this in five parts, but I'm doing four instead, so tomorrow, the rest of  the story will be posted, and will stay up through the weekend.

If you have a chance today, please run over to My Book Addiction , where I'm talking to Toni about my favorite character from the Penton series (that was a hard question!)...

Jackson Square, A Story of Jean Lafitte in the Sentinels of New Orleans World

Welcome back! If you click on the Jackson Square tab (or go to this link ), you can scroll down or search for Roman numeral II for today's installment. Enjoy!

Also, HAPPY RELEASE DAY to the paperback edition of River Road --now if you're into matched sets, you can get one to go with Royal Street.

And...ROYAL STREET is now available (for a short time only) for $2.99 for the ebook. You can find it at Amazon ; Barnes and Noble ; the Apple iBookstore ; KOBO ; Sony Reader; or  eBooks.com . Gifts! Just...

Free Read -- Jackson Square: A Story of Jean Lafitte

Welcome to the world of the Sentinels of New Orleans, where this week I'm offering up a new novelette called Jackson Square, featuring everyone's favorite undead pirate, Jean Lafitte. If you're new to the Sentinels world, there are no real spoilers here, so read freely.

A couple of news bits:
--Thanks to Jen for letting me know that ROYAL STREET is currently available for Kindle for $2.99. I'd thought it wasn't going on sale until July, and it might be that Amazon jumped the gun and that Barnes...

Coming Monday--Jackson Square: A Story of Jean Lafitte

Ready for some piratical shenanigans? Here are the plans for Jackson Square, which is a novelette of about 12,000 words. I'm timing it to celebrate the Tuesday release of River Road in paperback...finally! I hear there are moves afoot to do special pricing on Royal Street in July. As I hear more, I'll let you know.

From Monday through Friday, I will post a new section of the story each morning here on the Preternatura site as well as on my author website . The story will stay up for a week befo...

Feral Friday--Because This TBR Pile is Wild and Out of Control

Time to get rid of, um, I mean SHARE some books!

First, a quick commercial message. All next week, Preternatura will feature a new segment of a novelette called JACKSON SQUARE. The story is a limited-run engagement that will be available as a very inexpensive digital download a couple of weeks later with some bonus material...but more on that in due time. JACKSON SQUARE features some familiar names from the Sentinels of New Orleans series: the undead pirate Jean Lafitte is the star, but we als...

Talking to Shirley Jackson Award Finalists S.P. Miskowski and Ennis Drake

Today, we welcome authors S.P. Miskowski and Ennis Drake to Preternatura. Both of these authors, published by dark fantasy publisher Omnium Gatherum Media, are shortlisted for the Shirley Jackson Awards. The winner of this year's award, named after author Shirley Jackson in to recognize the year's best fiction in psychological suspense, horror, and the dark fantastic, will be announced on July 14 at Readercon 24 in Burlington, Mass. Read on for a chance to win one of th...<![endif]--><!--[if gte mso 9]>

A Musical Interlude from Slaid Cleaves

Thanks to rampaging real life (sigh), I didn't get Shop Talk done for today, so I'll offer up a little music while I'm off dealing with STUFF. I hate STUFF.

But I don't hate music. I use it a lot in my writing, so I'll share a song I've been listening to a lot recently as I'm working on a new character for a new writing project.

I'm not ready to talk about the project yet, although its working title is LOVELY, DARK AND DEEP.

But I will talk about this character a little, because I like him a lot...