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Jan
20

Where I Am Today

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Okay – things are crazy today, but here we go: 1) I’m over at Word Whores talking a little bit about nightmares (including a small excerpt from A Brush of Darkness) 2) I have a guest blog post today over at Literary Escapisms talking about why I write fantasy. Leave a comment about why you like fantasy for a chance to win a signed copy of A Brush of Darkness 3) A Brush of Darkness was the featured book over at Ciara Knight‘s blog today! Stop on by. 🙂 4) You still have time to enter the following giveaways: Queen of Happy Endings Babbling Flow – Ends Today! The OddShots – Ends Today! Okay, think that’s it. Remember a few weeks ago when I mentioned I was going to be all over the place for a few weeks? Yeah. That’s started. Gonna be a wild ride. 🙂 And yay –… Read more
Jan
13

Gather Ye Rosebuds

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I’m at Word-Whores today talking a little bit about time. And truthfully, I had a much different blog post in mind, but it got a bit hi-jacked by thoughts of my mother, so if it appears a bit melodramatic or melancholy, than I apologize for that. And incidentally, I’ve gotten a lot of questions about where my “inspiration” came from on writing A Brush of Darkness. Thus far, I skirt the question a bit  – one scene came from a dream, for example, or that I wanted to explore a story about an incubus. But  I suspect there was a good deal of my own grief that was the precursor to it. Guess it’s that write-what-you-know thing. Abby’s mother is dead (of a car crash) in the book and some of the story centers around Abby’s denial of that fact. Although Abby is NOT my avatar, I will fully cop… Read more
Jan
6

Word Whore Post! and BoD Excerpt!

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I’m over at Word-Whores today talking a bit about courtesans and a rather round-about way of comparing them to writers. It’s sort of rambly.  (Thursdays will be my normal day over there from now on, so I’ll be doing a bit of cross-posting, I think.) Also I’ve got an excerpt from A Brush of Darkness up on my author site now if anyone is interested. 🙂 Also, also – killer review of Brush of Darkness over at Fresh Fiction today!… Read more
Jan
1

Word Whores are Here!

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Happy New Year to everyone! Just a quick note to pop in and say that the new Word-Whores blog is now up and officially running, so go on over and check us out. New blog posts every day by seven authors. 🙂 Also, if you’d like to win a copy of Brush of Darkness, go check out Alaine – Queen of Happy Endings – she’s running a contest!… Read more