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April 4, 2014

Veronica Answers More Last Thing Questions

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(Random photo from my archives, randomly selected because I love sequins and bling and it’s colorful…)


It’s been a while since I did a magazine quiz and I love the “One Last Thing” quizzes inPeople magazine, so here goes with a few more:


Last sport I played:Volleyball at a party given by one of my co-workers. This was a few years ago, not the world’s most athletic person here. But as Readers of this blog may recall, I ha...

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Published on April 04, 2014 07:48

April 1, 2014

Blogging at USA Today HEA About Anxiety, Ancient Egypt and Me

HEAApril is National Anxiety Month (and probably some other “National Months” too, so many topics need attention)…so I’ve written a special column over at USA Today Happily Ever After blog on this subject.


Now I’m strictly a layperson, but as I understand it, almost everyone suffers stress and anxiety from time to time in our modern world. There are plenty of things to stress a person in the normal day – commuting to work, the big meeting with the boss or client, the final exam, making a speech e...

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Published on April 01, 2014 20:49

March 29, 2014

Every Broken Claw MAGIC OF THE NILE Weekend Writing Warriors

WeWriWa buttonA fun way to sample new books and find new writers! Here’s the link to theWeekend Writing Warriorscentral page, so you can visit all the participants sharing excerpts today…


MagicOfTheNile_1600x2400So we’ve moved on to the newly Released MAGIC OF THE NILE, which is the sequel to the book I had been sharing excerpts from. I’ll just jump in with the first eight sentences for now (and have played with the punctuation to make it eight sentences. I think!):


Patience running thin, Tyema tried in vain to focus on the endless...

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Published on March 29, 2014 20:39

March 28, 2014

Into the Burning House ESCAPE FROM ZULAIRE SFR Brigade Presents

THE SFRB Presents(The link ishereto find this week’s excerpts from novels or WIP written by otherDABWAHAScienceFictionRomance Brigade group members. A fun way to sample new books!)


From my SFR Galaxy Award winning novel (whch also was voted into DABWAHA by Readers – thank you!), loosely inspired by the Sepoy incident in 1857 butseton another planet in the far future….


In the last few weeks I gave you the opening of the book and then as Andi has returned from theSFR Galaxy Awardwedding of the Planetary High Lord’s daughter to her host...

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Published on March 28, 2014 21:08

March 26, 2014

My SciFi Encounter Today Is With Nalini Singh

HEAI’m interviewing author Nalini Singh today over at USA Today’s Happily Ever After Blog for my“Sci-Fi Encounters” column.Ms. Singh is at the top of my personal Must Read List and everything comes to a stop in my household when she releases a new book in either series (or a new series LOL). I’m a huge fan of both her Psy/Changeling and Guild Hunter series, which feature amazing world building. I also have a not-so-secret crush on more than one of her characters LOL.


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Published on March 26, 2014 21:02

March 23, 2014

Discussing My Writing Process

???????????????????????????????My friend from the Here Be Magic author group, Jody Wallace, tagged me to participate in this meme. I love to answer questions – we all know that LOL – so here goes and Happy Monday to everyone!


What am I working on? Other than this blog post? And the dayjob stuff I brought home? Well, I’m on the second revision of my new science fiction romance/adventure, MISSION TO MAHJUNDAR. I’m also doing advance thinking for my next paranormal novel set in Ancient Egypt, tentatively entitled GHOST OF THE...

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Published on March 23, 2014 21:09

March 22, 2014

Who Is He? PRIESTESS OF THE NILE Weekend Writing Warriors

WeWriWa buttonA fun way to sample new books and find new writers! Here’s the link to theWeekend Writing Warriorscentral page, so you can visit all the participants sharing excerpts today…


PRIESTESS OF THE NILE was my first published work and MAGIC OF THE NILE is the sequel to PRIESTESS.


You can read the beginning of Chapter One of PRIESTESShere on my website.


VS_PriestessOfTheNileMerys has been tending an abandoned temple of the Crocodile God Sobek and doesn’t realize she’d been talking to him (in his human form and calling himse...

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Published on March 22, 2014 20:53

COVER REVEAL The Tears of the Rose from Jeffe Kennedy

So excited to present the cover for THE TEARS OF THE ROSE, the second book in Jeffe Kennedy’s new The Twelve Kingdoms series from Kensington:


THE TEARS OF THE ROSEThe first book in The Twelve Kingdoms series is The Mark of the Tala, which will be out on May 27th. I was fortunate enough to read an advance copy and LOVED IT. I can’t wait for this next book in the series now and the first one isn’t even officially Released yet…while we wait, Mark of the Tala is available for pre-order at Amazon. Here’s the story of t...

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Published on March 22, 2014 05:30

March 21, 2014

Are the Children Safe? ESCAPE FROM ZULAIRE SFR Brigade Presents

THE SFRB Presents(The link ishereto find this week’s excerpts from novels or WIP written by other DABWAHAScienceFictionRomance Brigade group members. A fun way to sample new books!)


From my SFR Galaxy Award winning novel, loosely inspired by the Sepoy incident in 1857 butseton another planet in the far future….


In the last few weeks I gave you the opening of the book and then as Andi has returned from the SFR Galaxy Awardwedding of the Planetary High Lord’s daughter to her host’s summer home, she found a squad of Sectors Special Forc...

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Published on March 21, 2014 14:24

March 15, 2014

Escaping the Crocodile PRIESTESS OF THE NILE Weekend Writing Warriors

WeWriWa buttonA fun way to sample new books and find new writers! Here’s the link to theWeekend Writing Warriorscentral page, so you can visit all the participants sharing excerpts today…


My new book was released last week but I’ll finish the incident of Merys and the crocodile, and the reveal of Sobek’s identity as promised, which may take another week or two at the eight-sentence rate LOL. PRIESTESS OF THE NILE was my first published work and MAGIC OF THE NILE is the sequel to PRIESTESS.


VS_PriestessOfTheNileYou can read the b...

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Published on March 15, 2014 20:38