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Book Cover: Circus in a Shot Glass

Here’s the cover for Circus in a Shot Glass (I couldn’t wait ’til next Friday to reveal it):

[image error]Book cover by Cora Graphics

Thanks to Cora at Cora Graphics for doing such a superb job! Circus in a Shot Glass is slated to released September 9, 2018 from Clean Reads. It’ll be available in e-book from Amazon.com.

Tea: This Writer’s Beverage of Choice

Tea is a yummy beverage with a rich history and cool customs.

“I like tea. Tea doesn’t make me sad.” – Circus in a Shot Glass (Clean Reads 2018)

Everyone has a preferred beverage or two. My brother’s is diet Mountain Dew. My niece’s is chocolate milk (or Olive Garden’s berry smoothie, depending on what day you catch her on.) My sister’s is very, very sweet hot tea. Seeing as she’s my twin, I have to second her preference…just maybe not quite as sweet.

Also, it’s fitting: Writers often sing th...

Miscellany

I know I’ve been quiet lately, and I might go back to being that way for a little while. Just a heads up

Book Cover Reveal: THIAG

Here’s the cover for my novelette Things Heard in a Graveyard (releasing in November):

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Love = Feeding

The lengths we’ll go for someone we love, am I right?

My cat Chester (2003 – 2016–almost 2017) had had renal failure for almost six years when he died. To take care of him and to keep his life happy and comfortable, we had to mix Epakitin in moist food twice a day, gave him 1/4 of an antacid once a day in a Pill Pocket or any treat we could trick him into eating, fed him a special kidney diet, took him to vet appointments every so many months to get his blood toxin levels tested, and we had t...

Kindness in Literature

There’s been a lot of negativity in online communities as of late. And while it’s important to keep up with politics (to a point); and be a social activist, standing up against the lions of injustice…it’s also so very, very much needed to be kind and focus on positive things.

Here, for all our sakes, is a small collection of kindness found in books. The motives could be dissected (no human motive is 100% pure), but I’m not going to do that.

“It’s not enough to be friendly. You have to be a fr...

(Self) Sabotage!

No need to sing Beastie Boys at me. Please don’t.

Now that we’ve gotten that out of the way…

Today I’m going to talk about sabotage. More specifically, SELF-sabotage.

A friend once asked me if I was my own saboteur. I think I replied around the lines of “I don’t know.” Because I didn’t. But the more I look at my patterns of behavior, the more I’m noticing that yes, yes I do sabotage myself in many different areas of my life.

When I know I’ll binge eat at night, I fail to eat earlier in the ev...

Books I’m reading: May Edition

I’ve been doing a lot of reading and plan on doing a lot more. Books I’m reading (note that these are no recommendations. I’m not liking 100% of these):

Life in a Medieval Village by Frances Giles Going Wide Unboxed by Patty Jansen Holly Lisle’s Create a World Clinic by Holly Lisle Let’s Get Digital by David Gaughran Magonia by Mari Dahvana Headley Restore by Vince Antonucci The Fire in Fiction by Donald Maass The Crystal Cave by Mary Stewart The Mists of Avalon by Marion Zimmer Bradley Why...

How I Survived My Second Book Signing

[image error]Me^ (Photo credit: R.A. Johnson)

Don’t let that relaxed, calm, and passive face fool you

Me Tackling Fear — On the Radio and in a Crowd

[image error] My sister got me a cute shot glass ^ in honor of CIRCUS IN A SHOT GLASS’s upcoming release!

But before I think about CIRCUS IN A SHOT GLASS, I have to finish getting through this week. If all went well (I’m writing this post on Sunday), I was on the radio yesterday and will try to see if there’s a link to the segment on the station’s website. And tomorrow…is my book signing!

Aaaaaaaack!

It would seem I’m tackling a lot of my fear this week…head-on! I HATE being in crowds and I do not like bei...