I was absent last week because it's festival time and I love a festival. I find them relaxing, creatively inspiring and of course, expensive as I always get carried away with food, drink and buying things I don't actually need but want.

Last weekend it was the Paw Paw Festival with a lot of good music, beer, food and crafts. I got over a dozen ( Read more... )

Sometimes you get inspired by random chunks of conversation. In this case, there is someone I went to h.s. with who is relatively conservative (not anti-women, anti-gay at least not openly or she'd be gone from my flist) and she was talking about her cop husband starting to learn the bagpipes. One of her friends whom I don't know drops in to say ' ( Read more... )

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Welcome Louise Lyons back, everyone. She's here with her latest Beyond the Scars which hits a lot of my favorite character tropes in the case, a young man fighting back from abuse. It's always good to see someone climb out of the ashes.


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Hi everyone. Give Charley a big welcome. She's here to talk about her story in Dreamspinner's Advent calendar!

Things you won’t learn about Ian by reading “Toy Run”

Thanks, Jana, for having me, and Happy Holidays!


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Tonight is the last night you can enter the giveaway to win an autographed copy of my urban fantasy novel Kept Tears. Details can be found here.

Goodreads Book Giveaway


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I'm very happy to have Kim Fielding on my blog today. She's having a very busy fall publishing wise and is here to tell us all about it. You've seen her here before (and probably my reviews of her wonderful books), and one of them has royalties going to a charity that means a lot to both of us, Doctors without Borders. I had wanted to join them ( Read more... )

My steampunk novella, If Two of Them Are Dead earned another another 4 star review That makes me very happy. This was one that I struggled with in spots and the editor pushed me hard, rightly so. I am so proud of how it turned out and people seem to like it. And that makes me happier still.

AND I'm giving away a signed copy of Kept Tears This ( Read more... )