Read-A-Romance Celebration Month Recommendations
August is the annual Read-A-Romance Month and all through next month, Celebrate Romance will have essays by some of the greats of romance talking about how they got started and why they love the genre. How did I get started? It took a village. As part of this...
Starry Nights: Every Little Girl Flies
Humans have always looked to the stars for inspiration. Once flight became possible, men and women risked their lives to push "higher, further, faster, more," in the words of Captain Marvel/Carol Danvers, and her current writer, Kelly Sue DeConnick. The first arc of...
Reviews Are In For The Curse of the Brimstone Contract!
All quite positive! Thank you all for reading and buying! From CriminalElement.com: What at first seems like a fun, magic infused mystery, turned out to be quite a bit more. Joan is seemingly bound by not only her social status, but also her family obligations, and...
The Curse of the Brimstone Contract Releases Today!
Release Day is here! ::Takes a moment to Snoopy Dance:: The Curse of the Brimstone Contract, a romantic steampunk history, is the culmination of a dream I had as a teenager when first read Hound of the Baskervilles and hoped I could write characters as fascinating as...
Coming out in One Week: The Curse of the Brimstone Contract
The Curse of the Brimstone Contract, available at Samhain Publishing, Amazon, B&N and other ebook stores! Magic—and love—balanced on the tip of a needle… The Steampunk Detectives, Book 1 Magic existed at the fringes until Prince Albert discovered he was a mage....
Viking Weddings!
I've been intently watching Vikings on the History Channel this year. They've upped the storytelling a great deal, though it remains a very dense show. You have to pay close, intense attention unless you miss something. It's not a "heroes and villains" kind of show....
My Appearance on National Television!
Here's the full episode of the NickMom show, Take Me To Your Mother, in which comedian Andrea Rosen talks to other moms about how to geek out. You'll see me, in full geek mode as Lois Lane, about halfway through but the whole episode is a lot of fun, with Andrea...
Sales & Release Dates. Plus..A Pretty!
He is pretty, isn't he? For those who don't recognize him, that's Tom (Loki) Hiddleston in "The Hollow Crown" Shakespeare series. More specifically, that's him playing Henry V in Henry V. Ghost Phoenix's hero, Richard Genet (aka Prince Richard, Duke of York), is a...
A Proud Mom
Yes, I've been absent. My youngest son has had a recurrence of a serious chronic illness and we've been dealing with multiple doctors and hospitals for the last two months. He's stable now and hopefully will remain so. Which brings me to my first item. That same son...
Just How Do You Fire a Reader’s Imagination?
I first realized that some writers, by only using a few words here and there, can create scenes that basically exist just in the reader's imagination. So I'm musing on exactly how to do that over at the Savvy Author's Blog today!