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January 19, 2013
While my wife and children race down the sloops like the ski bunnies they are, I've holed up at Trader's Coffee to edit THE MURK.
This picture was taken directly across the street from the coffee shop. If you've never been to Deep Creek Lake, MD, in the winter: yes! the water really is that blue!
I've got a decaf latte, a warmed palmier, a printout of chapter two, and four very sharp dixon ticonderogas at my side. Now, to work!
January 14, 2013
January 4, 2013
Bookmark of the Day
This little penguin is a magnetic page saver. He's about an inch tall and cute as a button.
January 3, 2013
Bookmark of the Day
Bookmark of the Day. (I pulled this one out a textbook today.)
December 27, 2012
THE MOON COIN has landed on a new Listopia list: Books With a Goodreads Average Rating of Over 4.5
THE MOON COIN has landed on a new Listopia list: Books With a Goodreads Average Rating of Over 4.5
It's currently at #189. It sure could use a few more votes! :)
currently at #81. It sure could use a few more votes! :)
currently at #52. It sure could use a few more votes! :)
currently at #35. It sure could use a few more votes! :)
It's currently at #26! It sure could use a few more votes! :)
http://www.goodreads.com/list/show/10...
P.S. It appears someone has put THE DRAGONDAIN on this list too!
It's currently at #26! It sure could use a few more votes! :)
http://www.goodreads.com/list/show/10...
P.S. It appears someone has put THE DRAGONDAIN on this list too!
December 21, 2012
THE MOON COIN is 3 shelves shy of the 2,000 mark!
It took THE MOON COIN twelve-and-a-half month to reach 1,000 shelves on GoodReads. And it looks like it's going reach 2,000 in three months.
Thanks everybody!
Here's a chart of THE MOON COIN'S GoodReads shelf adoption. That dramatic rise in the middle directly corresponds to when the paperback edition was released.
Thanks everybody!
Here's a chart of THE MOON COIN'S GoodReads shelf adoption. That dramatic rise in the middle directly corresponds to when the paperback edition was released.
December 18, 2012
Pocket Rinn
Email me a pic of your Pocket Rinn and I'll post them in the Pocket Rinn Gallery tab on my blog.
This pocket Rinn is my daughter's cat: Simpkin. She's reclining on 1,000 copies of THE DRAGONDAIN.
This is Preciosa the jaguar. She lives in Peru. She REALLY wants to read The Moon Coin!
Preciosa is a tad larger than your average pocket Rinn. I can't tell from the pic how many pounds she weighs, but I'm guessing she's still smaller than a real Rinn cub, and so I decided to include her. Besides, how many North American authors get to post pics of a jaguar pawing at their book? :)
This pocket Rinn is my daughter's cat: Simpkin. She's reclining on 1,000 copies of THE DRAGONDAIN.
This is Preciosa the jaguar. She lives in Peru. She REALLY wants to read The Moon Coin!
Preciosa is a tad larger than your average pocket Rinn. I can't tell from the pic how many pounds she weighs, but I'm guessing she's still smaller than a real Rinn cub, and so I decided to include her. Besides, how many North American authors get to post pics of a jaguar pawing at their book? :)
December 17, 2012
Just one more vote and THE MOON COIN will go to #1 on this Listopia list!
Just one more vote and THE MOON COIN will go to #1 on this Listopia list!
http://www.goodreads.com/list/show/27...
http://www.goodreads.com/list/show/27...
November 20, 2012
Release announcement: print edition of THE DRAGONDAIN
The print edition of THE DRAGONDAIN hits shelves December 4, 2012!
"Tales, unlike stories, never lie. You see, a tale is an account of things in their due order, often divulged secretly, or as gossip. Would you like to hear one?" —Lord Autumn
It's the middle of the night, you need to send your brother to the Moon Realm, and he won’t wake up. So you improvise. . . .
When a confused Jasper awakes, he's convinced he's dreaming. But by the time he meets Greydor, Jasper understands that this is no dream. In fact, persuading the King of the Rinn to work with the men of Dain to defeat their common enemy is a nightmare. Then there’s the other side of the coin: convincing Tavin and Dubb that saddling a Rinn isn’t certain death. (“It’ll be fun!”) And perhaps even a greater worry: can he make friends with Dubb’s daughter Darce before she punches his lights out?
Lily has problems, too. There’s a little mousie scratching in her closet. Or at least, it sounds like a little mousie. Oh, and her second confrontation with Curse, and trying to form her first peerin. (Don’t you have to be from Dain to do that?) And where’s Ebb?
One thing’s for sure: now that Lily and Jasper have entered the Moon Realm, nothing can ever be the same again.
Illustrated by Carolyn Arcabascio. Book Two in the award winning Moon Realm Series.
For a Two Chapter Preview: click HERE.
The Dragondain's GoodReads page
"Tales, unlike stories, never lie. You see, a tale is an account of things in their due order, often divulged secretly, or as gossip. Would you like to hear one?" —Lord Autumn
It's the middle of the night, you need to send your brother to the Moon Realm, and he won’t wake up. So you improvise. . . .
When a confused Jasper awakes, he's convinced he's dreaming. But by the time he meets Greydor, Jasper understands that this is no dream. In fact, persuading the King of the Rinn to work with the men of Dain to defeat their common enemy is a nightmare. Then there’s the other side of the coin: convincing Tavin and Dubb that saddling a Rinn isn’t certain death. (“It’ll be fun!”) And perhaps even a greater worry: can he make friends with Dubb’s daughter Darce before she punches his lights out?
Lily has problems, too. There’s a little mousie scratching in her closet. Or at least, it sounds like a little mousie. Oh, and her second confrontation with Curse, and trying to form her first peerin. (Don’t you have to be from Dain to do that?) And where’s Ebb?
One thing’s for sure: now that Lily and Jasper have entered the Moon Realm, nothing can ever be the same again.
Illustrated by Carolyn Arcabascio. Book Two in the award winning Moon Realm Series.
For a Two Chapter Preview: click HERE.
The Dragondain's GoodReads page
