The (rough draft) of The Haunted Heart is now complete at Wattpad. I'll be leaving it up until I expand, edit and publish the final version through regular channels. So enjoy.

I've sold two projects to Carina Press for 2014. Stranger on the Shore (excerpt here) and the sequel to Fair Game (titled Fair Play).

Man Oh Man is now available in digital. ( Read more... )

The Virginian's pistol came out, and his hand lay on the table, holding it unaimed. And with a voice as gentle as ever, the voice that sounded almost like a caress, but drawling a very little more than usual, so that there was almost a space between each word, he issued his orders to the man Trampas: "When you call me that, SMILE." And he looked at ( Read more... )

So the lovely and talented K.A. Mitchell was kind enough to point out that Somebody Killed His Editor is now up on the Samhain Coming Soon page (with a release date of June 16th. I haven't talked a lot about this one, but it's the first book in a new mystery-romance series, with an emphasis on the funny (I dearly hope). So if you don't like the ( Read more... )

I was talking recently with someone offlist about the difficulty of creating believably flawed protagonists, so I said I'd post on that one of these fine days...

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 Yes, yes, it's coming, it's coming. All right, already. You'll laugh, you'll cry, you'll throw the book across the room (well, someone will, I guarantee you). I'm...well...maybe not in the zone, but I believe I stepped on the line a couple of times.

In other news, I'd like to thank
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 And, by the way, I better not ever find you using a question mark and exclamation point together except in jest.

Yes, I'm feeling better. I now have my voice back -- and can begin shooting my mouth off again.

Nikki Kimberling  
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 I just want to say two things: the man who invented orange-pineapple juice, and made it available in those ready pour containers, was a GENIUS. And...there is nothing better for being sick than watching The Professionals.

Wait. That didn't sound right.

There is nothing for making you feel better -- albeit, tireder -- than watching the lads running ( Read more... )

 So Part Two of 
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The clever and talented -- and funny as heck ( Read more... )

 "He'd spent the last few nights tossing about
and awakened by nightmares, none of which he could recall. Each
retching experience left him drenched in sweat and drained."

Well...YEE-AAH. A night spent retching is indeed wretched.