Bite Marks releases today! Ta-da! Tra-la! Splat! (You knew I had to get that last one in–this is a Jaz Parks adventure after all!) I’ll be celebrating by sleeping in because I got all my work done tonight. Then Friday I’m going to Springfield, Illinois to give a big speech about Urban Fantasy to lots [...]
Yayness! My virtual launch party is so ON!! Why not meet me at Bitten By Books today, or tomorrow, or as soon as you get the chance? Lotsa awesome prizes, including a $100 Gift Certificate to Amazon, a collection of autographed novels from my fellow authors at the League of Reluctant Adults, a collection of [...]
Maybe I’m partial, but I’m thinking you guys should totally sweep these prizes. Here’s your first in….
Okay, it’s just one picture. And, I guess it doesn’t show all the hours I spend, butt in chair, doing the work that gets me to the various stages you see below. But I thought you might get a kick out of seeing what I do produce, especially since I have a fresh manuscript to [...]
SPOILER ALERT***SPOILER ALERT***SPOILER ALERT***SPOILER ALERT Since several of you have already finished reading Bite Marks, and your feedback has been both interesting and fun, I thought it might already be time to give you a special place to talk about Jaz, Vayl, and the crew’s Australian adventure. Speak freely here, with the understanding that all [...]
Yesterday hubby and I took the leap and bought a new (to us) vehicle. We had followed our typical pattern, which was to drive our present set of wheels so far into the ground it had begun to confuse itself with a mine elevator. The question of whether or not we would make it to [...]
Need I say more? Probably, but I just think that is the coolest blog name, don’t you? Lucky for me, Marta Acosta invited me to stop by for an interview. It’s up today, along with your chance to win an autographed copy of either Once Bitten, Twice Shy or Bite Marks. The contest runs through [...]
As you know from my short story, An Evening for Vayl & Jaz, our heroine prefers to sleep in oversized T-shirts. Can you blame her? They’re oooo, comfy. But, uh, not all that sexy. In fact, I wrote a scene in Bite Marks concerning Jaz’s lingerie choices that I hope you find entertaining. As you [...]
You English teachers out there may find this somewhat weird, but I despise grammar. I got an “A” in the class in college, but only because grammar is instinctive to me (I think in the same way that finding the open part of the field is instinctive to a running back). For instance, at this [...]
As you probably know by now, I do mondo research before and during the writing of my books. I especially try to bring in myths and folklore unique to the regions about which I’m writing when at all possible. For instance, in Biting the Bullet, I wove my funky version of the beliefs and tales [...]
