So heads up, SAPPHIRE FLAMES is available for preorder on Amazon. There is no description yet. I do not recommend buying. You don’t even know what it’s about. (It’s about murder. Lots and lots of murder.) While on Amazon, I happened to see the Silent Blade and it has several reviews which indicate that people
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Little Snippet
Have to work and do all the things today, so here is a short snippet. As an aside, Gutenberg, which is the new text editor for WordPress, arbitrarily eats spaces between words when you paste from Word. Begin primal scream of rage. The Harris County Institute of Forensic Sciences occupied a nine-story building on Old
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Diamond Fire is #11 on USA Today Bestseller List
Yays! This was such an unexpected surprise. I didn’t think they counted novels. Thank you, guys! Here is a celebratory snippet. “Danger is our middle name,” Grandma Frida said. Mom stopped what she was doing and looked at Grandma Frida. “What?” Grandma Frida shrugged. “It’s been too quiet around here. I’m ready for some action.”
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DIAMOND FIRE Discussion Post
Happy Book Birthday! New Novella From Hidden Legacy Nevada Frida Baylor and Connor Ander Rogan cordially invite you to join their wedding celebration. Summoning, weather manipulation, and other magical activities strictly forbidden. Catalina Baylor is looking forward to wearing her maid of honor dress and watching her older sister walk down the aisle. Then the
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Deleted Scene from Hidden Legacy 4, More Cowbells
We liked this beginning but ultimately decided it needs something more. We we’ve cut this scene and reworked it. Here it is, a never before and never again published opening. We tried but couldn’t find the image of the right building available to purchase, so we are linking to it here, because we have no
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Diamond Fire: Sneak Peek
Happily Ever After at USA Today is offering a non-spoilery snippet of Diamond Fire. Have fun!
Diamond Fire: Clarification
To answer some of the questions: Diamond Fire is a bridge novella. It is roughly 30,000 words long, so about a third of a typical book. It features two viewpoints. We start with Nevada, but move on to Catalina, who is solving a mystery during the wedding. At the time of the wedding Catalina is
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Finished. And a Snippet.
Putting final touches on Diamond Fire novella. Yay! We will be done today. The draft is finished, we are just cleaning it before sending it off. Here is some Leon for you. # Valentina’s House Catering was in New Braunfels, a very German town in the middle of Texas. We had interviewed larger catering firms
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Little snippet of Diamond Fire for you
“What is it?” I asked. “She wants lilacs in her wedding bouquet.” “Okay…” Nevada said she wanted carnations, but we could stuff some pretty pink lilacs in there. I didn’t see the problem. “Blue,” Arabella squeezed out. “She wants blue lilacs.” No and also no. “Nevada…” “I had to hide in a bush of French
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Wallpaper For Hidden Legacy
R. writes, Is there somewhere on the website to find the wallpapers anymore? I love the picture you can see on the main page when you are scrolling past the Diamond Fire, HL novella part. I would like to see how it would look as a background on either my computer or a tablet. That’s
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Alpha Showdown and Other News
Alpha Showdown The Alpha Showdown is happening. I know this because fifty million people emailed us about it, including our agent. 🙂 Several years ago Darynda’s street team gamed the system by voting multiple times, and BDH took exception to that. We have refrained from promoting Alpha Showdown ever since. But enough time has passed,
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Rogan POV from Wildfire Part 1
Many thanks to all the generous Nigerian readers who donated their time and expertise to make sure I wasn’t just making up crazy nonsense. The flight from Houston to Austin’s executive airport was short, less than half an hour in the air. It would take more time to get from the airport to the
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