“As the Heir of Shinar, I’m my people’s sword and shield. If a threat arises, I will be the first and sometimes the only one to respond to it. I am their atomic bomb. It is my duty to put myself between the kingdom and its enemies.” BLOOD HEIR For everyone who for some bizarre
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BLOOD HEIR ARCs
Update: here is the ARC link. The ARCs of BLOOD HEIR will go live on Netgalley on 12/01/2020, so tomorrow. We anticipate a high volume of requests, so please be patient. Here is what an early ARC reader had to say. I read it and there’s great news & not so good news. The great
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The Sad Song of Her People
Sookie was taken on a short walk, because that’s all her old butt can handle, and then left home while Gordon and I tried to burn a few more calories. As usual, she decided her treatment was unfair.
Five Random Questions
Have you taken revenge on someone by putting them in your book? Oh yes. There was a particularly obnoxious review on Amazon, which speculated about our personal life. Yup, she is in a book as a sniveling weak villain, and she is now dead. Muhahahahaha! Cross me at your peril! What’s the recipe for apology
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On Husbands, Spoilery Abilities Of
Every day Gordon and I have dinner at around 3 or 4 pm and watch true crime shows on the couch. Sometimes we also nap. But we usually stay awake for at least one episode. What it’s like to watch true crime shows with Gordon. 5 minutes into the show Narrator: …a mystery that shocked
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Get out, 2020, get out!
I think we can all agree that 2020 sucked. Normally, I am very much a holiday by the calendar woman: first comes Halloween, then comes Thanksgiving, and only after Thanksgiving one can put up the Christmas tree. A few days ago, as I wondered around in a daze after finishing the novel and trying to
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Disney Refuses to Pay Alan Dean Foster
Disney is attempting to do something really underhanded. Quick background on how things work. Let’s say a hit movie is being released. A writer is hired to write a novelization of it. The movie comes out, the book is published, and then the parent company that produced the film and hired the writer pays royalty
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Four Cups of Coffee
My hands have been steadily getting worse. I have finger pain, knuckle pain, pain in the center of the palm, pain in the thumb joint. The hands hurt. I’ve tried creams and over the counter painkiller, and making sad eyes at Gordon, so he would rub my hands, which he does, but none of it
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Nonsense We Watch When Deadline Is Done
Behold, the silliness we entertain our tired brains with. Ozzyman reviews Assassin’s Creed Valhalla. NSFW. So NSFW. Blow the stealth horn!!! So excited for this game. Once BLOOD HEIR is safely in the production team’s hands, Valhalla, here I come. Ozzyman also narrates all sorts of things like bad driving and kitten videos. Dragon Age
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Print Preorder for BLOOD HEIR
Print Preorder for BLOOD HEIR is now available. We weren’t able to do print preorders before on self-published books, so this is very exciting. People keep talking about “the next book” as if this is a foregone conclusion. One person talked about a four book series. I thought you might want to get in front
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Tiny Snippet: Ham Sandwich
I’m in a good mood because we are hopefully on our last day of editing, so you get a snippet. When I came out of the bedroom, Derek was sitting in my sanctuary at my kitchen table spreading a thin layer of honey mustard on a slice of bread with a wicked-looking knife. Another bread
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Anton Strout and Claw & Order
Today I would like to welcome to the blog Anton Strout, USA Today bestselling author, a popular podcast host, and a seriously funny man. 🙂 Anton has a new Kickstarter project, an urban fantasy anthology called Claw & Order, and since a lot of you enjoyed his work in the past, I didn’t want you
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