Sigh.  I didn’t want to write this post.  But I think it’s important to share the news with you, my readers.  (That is, the readers of my pen-name, Morgan Keyes.)

DARKBEAST REBELLION is a victim of our one-bricks-and-mortar-chain-bookstore economy, here in the U.S.

What does that mean?

As recently as a couple of years back, when Borders competed ( Read more... )

I need to write-up a post about the amazing time I had in Nashville, attending the Southern Festival of Books.  Before I get to that, though, I wanted to let you know about an interview I completed for my friend Maria V. Snyder.  You can read her fun questions and my answers over on her blog:

http://officialmariavsnyder.blogspot.com/2013/10/ ( Read more... )

I went up to Baltimore yesterday, for the third and final day of the Baltimore Book Festival.  (Alas, I didn’t make it up there the other two days.)  I’ve been to the BBF a couple of other times, and yesterday was - hands down - the most gorgeous weather I’ve ever enjoyed there!  (Not a huge amount of competition, alas.  The first time I went, I ( Read more... )

And today’s book launch is…  Oh.  Wait.  I’m not launching a new book today.  Two book launches a week is my limit.  (At least for now…  ::grin::)

I’m thrilled with the launch for SIX TIMES A CHARM (Amazon | Barnes & Noble | Kobo | (more links to come!)  At $0.99, lots of people are stocking up on light paranormal reading - and some folks are ( Read more... )

I am ***thrilled*** to announce that today is the release day for Darkbeast Rebellion (Amazon | B & N | Indiebound), the second volume in The Darkbeast Series (written by me, under the pen name, Morgan Keyes).


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And look what just appeared on *my* doorstep!


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With one week to go until the official release of DARKBEAST REBELLION (pre-order:  Amazon | B & N | Indiebound) I’m starting to bounce off the walls with excitement!

For those of you who have somehow missed the news, DARKBEAST REBELLION is my latest traditional fantasy novel.  It’s directed to middle grade students, and it’s published under a pen ( Read more... )

Although my life has been consumed with SINGLE WITCH’S SURVIVAL GUIDE, the first volume of the Jane Madison Series, which will be in stores on August 13, I haven’t forgotten my *other* writing identity, as Morgan Keyes, author of the Darkbeast Series.  DARKBEAST REBELLION is coming out on September 24, and I’m starting to line up speaking ( Read more... )

Earlier this week, I trudged to my mailbox.  There, amid the catalogs for clothes I don’t need and the flyers for food I don’t want to eat was a white Tyvek envelope, bearing my name and address.  Inside the white envelope was a manila envelope.  And inside the manila envelope was a *huge* sheet of paper, with a lovely message from Mrs. Lese’s ( Read more... )

So, first it was a story in Publishers Weekly; then, it was a story in the New York Times:  Simon & Schuster and Barnes & Noble are in a power struggle.  As a result, authors - myself included - are being badly hurt.  The details are murky.  Neither side is sharing detailed information, but it boils down to this:

Barnes & Noble is dying on the ( Read more... )