Congratulations to my Scribe Award nominees, both up for Best Novel (Speculative Fiction)!


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The Knight Agency is running a special countdown to Thanksgiving on our blog!  From the site: today until Tuesday, November 23rd, Knight Agency authors are counting down to Turkey Day with special guest blogs and giveaways every day. Contributors will include Diana Pharoah Francis, Maria Geraci, Marjorie M. Liu, David Mack, Renee Bernard, Jenna ( Read more... )

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“The very best kind of sequel: as lush and evocative and true as the first, with all the same sense of mystery, giving us the world and characters we already love, and yet with a new story and a wonderfully new perspective on the whole dazzling world and pantheon the author has built.”           -NYT bestselling author, Naomi Novik

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I don't know what it is about my authors and torturing their characters (see also guest blog by Diana Pharaoh Francis), but when it comes right down to it, I have some of the best in the field.  Case -in-point, David Mack, my guest-blogger today and, oh, everything he's ever written.  His latest, on sale today(!) is Star Trek: Typhon Pact - Zero ( Read more... )

I have three authors at C2E2 this weekend (the Chicago Comic and Entertainment Expo).  If you're in the area, I hope you'll stop by and say "hello" for me to Marjorie M. Liu, David Mack and Keith R.A. DeCandido and get some books/comics signed for yourself.

Also, congratulations to my finalists for OKRWA's National Readers' Choice Awards.  You go, ( Read more... )

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So many things have happened over the past five or six days:
-a trip to NYC to see a whole host of editors, a film agent and one of my authors
-a signing
-my high school reunion, where it was awesome to reconnect with so many people
-my shutterbug tendencies getting the best of me due to the fall leaves up north
-visits with family
-a trip down memory ( Read more... )

Dyce (short for Candyce) Dare never thought she’d end up twenty-nine and divorced, with a toddler to raise, an ex who “forgets” his child support and a diet consisting mostly of pancakes.

To make ends meet, Dyce takes a chance and starts up Daring Finds, a furniture refinishing business.  But finding things to refinish is ( Read more... )

I tried to rescue a lizard this morning in my garage by shooing the scrawny little thing out into the great outdoors where he could find plenty of insects to tempt his taste buds, but he seemed very convinced that my garage was the happenin' place to be.  He wanted no part of outside.  Well, if he keeps the bug population in my garage down, so be ( Read more... )