Tuesday, 5 Weeks Out

by | Sep 24, 2019

Morning y’all. Shattered Bonds drops on Tuesday Oct 29, in 5 weeks. That just hit me. So I’ll be doing fun stuff stuff here. To start, I’m doing chapter headings. You know. Those title headers y’all like so much. On TUESDAYS! Today I’m...

A convo with Beast

by | Jul 25, 2019

Morning, Y’all. Being Beast’s mom (in the creative sense) means I have conversations with her often. Most of these Convo’s appear first on the Newsletter (on this website’s home page. Scan down because I created a big empty hole in the middle...

My pal Jean has a new book! Post, excerpt, covers, FUN! (and giveaway)

by | Jul 22, 2019

From Dragons and Dungeons to Squad Cars Learning the art of mystery writing I’ve written a lot of books—well, I think it’s a lot—forty. Most of them are fantasy and science fiction. While I was writing those books, I didn’t read other fantasy novels. I didn’t want to...

The Whole Okra

by | Jun 10, 2019

I’m Southern and I have a love / love relationship with Okra, so when I met Chris Smith (fellow kayaker and okra enthusiast) I promised him that when his book on my favorite veggie hit the market, I’ll host him here! Yes! A  BOOK on okra!...

Time’s Demon

by | May 28, 2019

TIME’S DEMON , the second book in The Islevale Cycle, is the new time travel/epic fantasy novel from my pal D.B. Jackson (David B. Coe). TIME’S CHILDREN , the first volume, received a starred review from Publisher’s Weekly and was named the Best Fantasy Novel of 2018...