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REUNITED Inspiration on Pinterest

One of my favorite things to do when gathering inspiration for a new book is to build up a Pinterest board full ideas to fuel my creative writing. It used to be that I used Tumblr for this exclusively, but it was so easy for good stuff to get buried in the archives. Now I […]

Teaser Tuesday: Kumo-chan and Momo-chan

This teaser gives away a big part of the coming plot for the next two books so I decided to save it for last Nishikyō was mostly devoid of animals excepting the zoo in Ku 8 where Sanaa fell in love with her first animal (a llama) and the fish pond at Shōfū-an where the […]

Nebula Nights and The Boxed Set Experience

As a new author, only published for 11 months now, I thought it would be a long time before anyone invited me to be in a boxed set with them. But I was in the right place at the right time and volunteered to be a part of a science fiction romance boxed set with […]

Full Moon Report – August 2014

Is your head buzzing with brilliant new ideas? Are you sitting awake at night contemplating your next new project? Or have you just been so energized you can’t sit still? Welcome to the Full Moon in Aquarius! I swear I have been the Energizer Bunny these past few days. Going. Going. GOING. My brain is […]

How Did You Come Up With the Idea For the Nogiku Series?

I actually answer this question a lot in interviews so I’ll expand on it a little today. I had always wanted to write science fiction since I was a kid, and Isaac Asimov’s Foundation novels were my favorite. I enjoyed the themes and stories about humans who had colonized the galaxy, but I always wondered […]

Teaser Tuesday: Wretched Spring

There’s really something to be said for living in a climate that experiences all four seasons. Sanaa grew up in Nishikyō where the only seasons on record were warm, hot, and hottest. No blooming trees. Barely any flowers of any kind. Nishikyō had its own beauty but it lacked the diversity of the Earth humanity […]

Sunday Update – August 3, 2014

I missed my Sunday post last week so this one will span a little more than a week. Life has been busy around here and I’ve been feeling the pressure of an upcoming release. I am constantly on-edge and (sadness) my hair is falling out. Yes. It really is. I run my hand through and […]

Second Chances

In a plot twist I did not see coming, the head of Kobo Writing Life emailed me yesterday about pulling my books from Kobo. I was… very surprised and humbled that he even reached out to me. I like Kobo a lot but hadn’t sold any books there (4 books in the span of one […]

Leaving Kobo For The Time Being

You probably have not have noticed that my books are no longer for sale on Kobo. And I’m pretty sure you didn’t notice because no one was buying my books there anyway! Lol. There are a lot of things not to like about self-publishing. There. I said it. I’m sure that statement will come as […]

Teaser Tuesday: The Future

The concept of instinct or listening to your gut is one of my favorites. There are so many times when I act against my own instincts and fail, then kick myself for not listening to my own brain. Sanaa has this same problem for most of REMOVED and RELEASED. Her gut tells her own thing, […]