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Six Sentence Sunday – Audience with Pharaoh

Returning to my Ancient Egyptian paranormal book WARRIOR OF THE NILE, which I can now announce will be published by Carina Press in September 2013 SQUEEE!!!!, Khenet the warrior of the title, and Lady Tiya have just been through a meeting with the goddess Nepthys. Khenet was sent to wait in the outer courtyard while the goddess spoke to Tiya alone.

Next they meet with Pharaoh for some final instructions about their curious quest:

Regal in pleated linen robes trimmed with gold, Pharaoh swept int...

Of Cats and Books and Christmas

We have some favorite Christmas books in this house, going back to when my daughters were pretty young and while my grandson was over for the Thanksgiving holidays recently, we got those books out and took turns reading them. It seems that cats, Christmas and books are something of a theme in our family.

I’d have to say one of my favorites is The Wild Christmas Reindeer by Jan Brett. It’s a nice take on the Santa Claus/North Pole story and her illustrations are amazing. I could sit and study t...

My Top 10 Favorite Things at Disneyland – This Visit Anyway

We went to Disneyland recently, in honor of my birthday, and had a GREAT time…here were my top ten things from the day (in no special order):

1. Riding Buzz Lightyear with my grandson and blasting Zurg…

2. Soaring Over California, which is my alltime favorite ride EVER – closest I’ll ever be to flying without a plane, I’m sure….

3. It’s A Small World all refurbished for the holidays, with Disney characters added in and singing “Jingle Bells” and “Deck the Halls” along with that incredibly catchy...

Six Sentence Sunday – Back to Ancient Egypt

I’ve been missing my Ancient Egyptian paranormals while doing Science Fiction excerpts these past few weeks so here’s a selection from WARRIOR OF THE NILE, about which I hope to have good news to share in the not too distant future! But for now, it’s an unpublished manuscript.

Khenet the warrior of the title, and Lady Tiya have just been through a meeting with the goddess Nepthys. Khenet was sent to wait in the outer courtyard while the goddess spoke to Tiya alone. Now the lady is rejoining th...

Thanksgiving Musings

First and foremost I’d like to say I’m thankful for my family, my Readers, my publisher, and the men and women of the U.S. military who protect us around the world (and their families) – Happy Thanksgiving!

Usually I gather up some interesting or funny quotes to write the holiday blog around but this year I thought I’d be clever and spell out my thanks – here’s the first attempt:

Thankful for:

Turkey dinner

Home

America the Beautiful

Nile (since that’s where one of my book series is set)

Kin (Daught...

Six Sentence Sunday – Embarking on a New SF Work In Progress

From a new Science Fiction WIP I’ve got going, set in the same universe as several of my other novels. (There will be romance LOL!) The first speaker is a Sectors Special Forces Captain, just arrived on this planet, along with one sergeant:

“This place has the feel of a riot about to happen,” Mike said, studying the market stalls in their immediate vicinity. “I’ve been watching the pair of old women selling fruit – they aren’t even bargaining – and the fish monger is basically giving his catch...

Answering Questions with the Crocodile God

Today being the 13th, I’m blogging over at Paranormal Romantics. I invited Sobek the Crocodile God, hero of my novella Priestess of the Nile, to answer some questions for inquiring minds.

We saved one question for here, to entice you to follow us over there LOL:

What is the quality you like most in a woman?(Sobek sips his beer for a moment.) A loving heart, which my Merys has – ask anyone, including her half sisters! You know, I love to listen to singing and there’s a set of lines from one of...

Veterans Day Post – The Incredible Navajo Code Talkers

I like to think that the willingness of the American military to employ unusual tactics and unexpected strategies on occasion is one of our nation’s strengths. I’ve always been fascinated by the Navajo Code Talkers in World War II, partly because it was such a brilliant concept and also because they were so willing to go to war on behalf of the US with their special skill. Earlier this month I saw that one of the few remaining code talkers had died, so I decided to write about this chapter of...

Six Sentence Sunday – Science Fiction Happily Ever After

Still no word on whether the publisher considering this SF novel will be making an offer for it…but I realized I’d drifted into pubbing the entire book here in six sentence increments LOL! So I’ll leave the exact details of how Andi and the urabu fight the alien Betang for the book, whenever it sees the light of “published day”. To close out this series of Six Sentence Sundays, here’s a piece of the HEA and thanks to everyone for all the encouragement along the way!

Tom is speaking as the exce...

Character Interview – Genevieve, Duin & Belloc from STELLARNET PRINCE written by J L Hilton

Today it’s my pleasure to host Author J.L. Hilton and her three lively characters from the STELLARNET SERIES (latest book is STELLARNET PRINCE) – Welcome to: Genevieve O’Riordan / J’ni Nagyx Duin (she has two names, human and Glinnish), Duin and Belloc!

I must mention J. L. has a number of fun and exciting giveaways going on in connection with this new Release, including copies of the book, so be sure to hop over to her Giveaways site!!!

First a very short blurb about the book: One rebel. One...