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Weekend Writing Warriors Khenet’s Three Conditions

As promised, this week I’m continuing on with excerpts from my soon-to-be-released WARRIOR OF THE NILE. (I saw a preliminary cover yesterday – gorgeous, can’t wait to share!). Khenet has told Pharaoh he’ll volunteer to take this deadly mission to the Viper Nome (nome=province) under three conditions. Khenet is Pharaoh’s adopted brother and during the novel we discover the circumstances of his adoption but a key plot point is that his small tribe of people had their own, non-Egyptian religion,...

Weekend Writing Warriors Khenet Says Wait A Minute

Continuing with my Ancient Egyptian paranormal romance WARRIOR OF THE NILE, I thought it might be time to let Khenet the Warrior speak. By the way, he’s Pharaoh’s adopted brother and boyhood companion, so he can be a bit more informal with Pharaoh in private than most people would dare to be. Also (because I can’t give you the entire novel here LOL), Pharaoh did tell Khenet he was asking for a volunteer.

Khenet touched the two braided leather bands on his left wrist, smoothing his fingers over...

Can A Statue Be Cursed? My Encounter

Today I’m over at Paranormal Romantics, talking about the subject of cursed statues and telling the true story of one I personally encountered that may or may not have been cursed but it sure wasn’t staying under MY roof!

I’ve got a couple of really good pictures of the Egyptian statue of Neb-Senu at the Manchester Museum that’s been in the news recently, taken by one of my twitter friends on a visit to the Museum this month and kindly shared with me for the blog post.

The photo below is also f...

Paranormal Week – Worldbuilding in Ancient Egypt

I’m kicking off Paranormal Week over at the Here Be Magic blog today. I took world building as my topic, writing about the wonderful Ancient Egyptian civilization and how the various gods and goddesses get involved in the events surrounding my characters.

I regard Sobek the Crocodile God as my unofficial good luck charm, since he was the hero of my first published novella, PRIESTESS OF THE NILE. I’m beginning to have quite the collection of crocodiles, thanks to my family! Plastic ones, china...

New Book from Linda Mooney – KNIGHT OF DARKNESS

Talking about a new novel from my friend Linda Mooney, which she says is “A Sensuously Erotic Sci-Fi Romance”. It’s on my kindle waiting To Be Read

Here’s the story:

Sorrow Knight knew that at any time the U’Nar would attack Earth, but he needed a few more days to come out of chrystasis before he could fight the deadly enemy. With his soul sword, Rall, he and the handful of other Surge Knights would gather wherever the enemy landed, and drive them off this world. A world with so many wonderfu...

Weekend Writing Warriors More Bad News From Pharaoh

I’m planning to go on with excerpts from WARRIOR OF THE NILE until it’s released by Carina Press on September 16th, assuming I can do that without giving away too many spoilers and ruining the fun of reading the novel itself. Last week Pharaoh had just begun telling the warrior of the title, Khenet, about the details of this assignment, as the goddess Nephthys has requested. I’m doing a bit of creative editing to fit the 8 sentence format (and I had to include one extra sentence so pretend 9=...

For the 4th of July The Dare Boys of 1776

My maternal grandfather and I shared a few things – love of the outdoors, love of reading and a fascination for the Revolutionary War. I grew up in New England, where many events from those early days occurred, old forts still stood or had been rebuilt, people re-enacted those battles…so from the get go I had a tremendous admiration for the men and women who fought for liberty and the foundation of our country.

When I was pretty young, my grandfather gave me the childhood books he still had in...

Weekend Writing Warriors Journey Down the Nile

I really struggled with what to offer today, since the Shifter story is off the table for now (but going well in rewrites). So here’s a taste of Ancient Egypt, paranormal style, from WARRIOR OF THE NILE, out from Carina Press on September 16th. (I’ve done some creative editing to make it fit the eight sentence requirement!) The story blurb is at the end of the post but briefly in this excerpt the warrior of the title, Khenet, is asked by his Pharaoh to take on quite a task.

“What we speak of m...

Amazing Modern Bagpipe Player Video – Badpiper does ACDC “Thunderstruck”

We all know how much I love bagpipes, right? So HOW have I missed this guy????

“The worlds only flame throwing, leather clad, heavily tattooed punk rock warrior performing AC/DC’s “Thunderstruck”….

Lily Langtry and Sarah Bernhardt As 1890s Cleopatras

Recently added these two 1890′s era photographs to my collection of Egyptiana items. The photos depict famous actresses Lily Langtry and Sarah Bernhardt in their respective poses and costumes as Cleopatra. I was fascinated…Ithinkthese ladies are wearing a lot more layers of clothing than the actual Cleopatra probably had on in the hot weather in the land of the Pharaohs LOL.

Lily Langtry was talked into becoming an actress by Oscar Wilde and of course for a time she was the mistress of the Pri...