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Book Review: Dresden Files Storm Front is the first in the Dresden Files series by Jim Butcher. Harry Blackstone Copperfield Dresden is a real, honest to god Wizard. He finds lost items, does paranormal investigations, consulting, advice and his rates are reasonable He doesn’t do love potions, endless purses and he doesn’t do parties. ButContinue reading “Harry Dresden Review”

Night Marchers Wrote a ghost short story for submission to an anthology I learned about on twitter. I based it on the Hawaiian myth of the Night Marchers. My daughter loves to listen to podcasts of scary stories so I ran it past her. She liked it and gave me some excellent ideas to improveContinue reading “Anthology Submission Night Marchers”

Agenting Arista Doyle and the Secret of the Bees is my latest focus. I want to have an agent fall in love with it and sign me up for a blockbuster deal. Yeah, I can dream, can’t I? The book is edited, beta read and out to one last beta reader before I want toContinue reading “Agenting”

Authors are allowed to take poetic license. Rules of vampirism are open to interpretation. From a discussion between Gwen, Colin and Luc in Eternal Diet’s sequel “You Are What You Eat.”. ““Looks like a lot of stuff didn’t make it into the lore.” Gwen scoffed. “Maybe we should write a book. ‘The New Rules ofContinue reading “Writer’s Privilege’s”

Book Review: All Creatures Large and Small The titles of the series by James Herriot was derived from a hymn by Mrs. Cecil Alexander, which ran: “All Things Bright and Beautiful, All Creatures Great and Small, All Things Wise and Wonderful, The Lord God Made Them All.” The first book in the series is “AllContinue reading “Review of James Herriot’s Book”

Gwen Meets Colin Gonna post a snippet from Eternal Diet today. Gwen has just encountered Colin and asked if he was a vampire. “You stupid girl!” he hissed. “You stupid, stupid girl!” He pushed her rudely away and stepped back. At five foot two [if she lied about a half inch] Gwen was not theContinue reading “Eternal Diet Snippet”

People occasionally ask me how I got the idea for Eternal Diet. There IS a story behind it. For over 20 years I’ve worked in libraries. Sometimes when it got a little boring my coworkers and I would joke about the repetitious covers for certain genres. There is a reason hot, sexy romances are oftenContinue reading “Questions.”

Moving on Soon I will be leaving North Carolina for the more southern clime of Florida. There I will re charge and save some money for my ultimate move to Hawaii. Had a large moving sale and made a little money. Amazing what people are not willing to pay for! Anyway. This is at leastContinue reading “Moving On”

Through out this past year, I’ve been writing my latest book, a middle grade fantasy titled Calico Circus.  Calico Circus, middle grade fantasy at 52k words, is set in the Appalachian Mountains, where mythology sometimes mixes with every day life. Eleven year old Addy doesn’t believe she belongs to her family. She dreams about flying,Continue reading “Calico Circus”