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Trials of the Temple

Boy STILL has bedhead!
We tried two or three times to get just one of the boys into the robes and lightsabers.  Alas, the Force was...

Countdown - Two Weeks

Two weeks until the Cover Reveal on Thursday, June 29th.
Six weeks until the re-release of Tears of Heaven!
We are now looking at cover artists for Hell Becomes Her.

Finally, Company of the Damned continues apace, which means I’m deep into chapter 10.  For those of you keeping track, my chapters tend to run around 6,000 words, and an urban fantasy novel tends to be between 80,000 and 100,000.  This means Company of the Damned, is well over the 3/4 mark!
Very soon...

The Loss of a Name

We hates it forever! (not really)Devastated.
Absolutely, utterly crushed.
Last week, a friend of mine posted up about an author he was reading, and posted the title: Blood of Heroes (The Ember War Saga Book 3).  To be fair, Richard Fox, probably had that name kicking around in his cranium for years and years.
I still have to hate him.
The Blood of Heroes was going to be the name of the first book in MY fantasy series.  Gritty, realistic, with some moderate magic, and more brains than br...

Hunting Monsters: Book One by Allen Currier

In a sleepy little town, a seasoned detective and a killer the likes of which no one has ever seen. Detective Steve Belcher has his work cut out for him. But how do you find a killer who leaves no clues. A killer who has the police lost at every turn. How many bodies will stack up until Detective Belcher can find the monster committing these unspeakable crimes? How many monsters will he have to chase down to find the one behind the murders? Where are the monsters and who are the hunters? In w...

Countdown - Three Weeks

The countdown continues:
Only three more weeks until the Cover Reveal on Thursday, June 29th!

Only seven more weeks until the re-release of Tears of Heaven!
Soon . . . 

Covers and Books and Dates—Tears of Heaven Re-Release

Attention, all personnel—As the great wisdom and prophet of our age often says, “Alright. Alright.  Alright.”
The long anticipated, much promised, often stressed about (by me) dates are finally here.
New cover art for Tears of Heaven will release Thursday, June 20th.

The re-release of Tears of Heaven will happen by Monday, July 31st.

Memorial Movie "Madness"

Blame! it on the rain, that was falling, falling!Blame!Uneven, but with a great premise, and some interesting world-building, Blame!, based on the manga, is a post-apocalyptic world where technology has run amok.  An “infection” caused automated systems to spiral out of control and humanity is now on the brink of extinction thanks to their own advances.  Giant, mo...

A Timeline I Want to Hold Onto

While it’s important to remember that gold may make the rule, historians agree that slavery, at the time of the US Civil War/War of Northern Agression, was a major, practically a single-voting issue.  A quick review of history bears this out:
1854 – Lincoln declared in his “Peoria Speech” his opposition to slavery.  Prior to this, he had been on the fence, wanting to keep slavery out of the new territories to the west. He will vacillate on this position when politically expedient, bu...

Nine Heroes For Free!

Yes, these are my swords.
No, you cannot touch them.A long, long time ago, easily more than twenty-five years back (which is ancient according to my sons), I wrote a short story— Through the Sting of Fairy Smoke .  It was simple, straight-forward, based on a thumbnail understanding of samurai and medieval Japan, and riffing on a few themes of interest.  More importantly, the story was one of my first where a strong, female character kicked ass and took names.  Josai wasn’t the mai...

I'm Writing, So . . .

Of course, my brain works in mysterious ways, even to me, so there is always a possibility.  For example, I recently worked out the Trump Lie Cycle.  Enjoy: