Category: Writing News

September 21, 2018

Ill Met By Moonlight

It’s here! The 3rd book in the Witches of Castle Falls Series. We had a patch in Final Fantasy XIV on Tuesday so once this book went live, I spent a lot of my time playing. Had to clear Alphascape to finish Omega! 

I’m still not sure I’m cut out for cozies, cause I think this book breaks a few rules of the genre. But I do love the characters, and I enjoy writing them. Not to mention I see spin-off potential with the sisters and brother. 

But not yet! I just hope readers enjoy the trilogy for now. 

 

 

 

September 11, 2018

Getting There Update

First off, I took a moment this morning to honor the lives lost on this day and reflect where I was when the tragedy of 911 changed our lives. I believe it was one of those pivotal moments in my life as my daughter took her first steps the day before.

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I am so bad at updating information on this website. I was bad before I went back into the workforce, and since my time’s now split between the two once again, I think I got worse. 

My goal heading into the Fall is to get better at it, and to post once a week. I’m asking readers to hold me to that. 

So, to the update: 

“Ill Met By Moonlight” is on target for this month. This is book 3 in the Castle Falls Series. If there is one thing I’ve learned writing this series, it’s that I’m not sure I’m cut out for a cozy series. I tend to spiral back into the darker side of things, and cozies aren’t supposed to do that, are they? We’ll see how readers react to book 3 before I make any decisions on how to go forward. I love the characters, and this installment touches on David’s past and his possible future with Ginger. 

 

January 31, 2018

Zoe Short Stories / Novellas

After receiving a lot of email about the smaller stories for Zoë Martinique, and posting the question in facebook, I am happy to announce, the following stories are now available once again, with new covers and reformatted. Not all of the vendors have populated yet. Just know they will be available on Kindle, Nook, Kobo and iBooks by the end of this week. I’ll put out a newsletter with full links, as well as update the links on this website. 

AND, Zoë has now been added to my list of books, from the four published by Penguin to the later ones. Also, the reading order has now been posted in FAQs, which is a page I really need to update. 

Going on the record now, these are the only shorts / novellas for the series. As of right now, DOMINION is the last book in the series—but not the FINAL book. So any books that come up in google searches, if they are not listed here, they are not relevant to the story of Zoë Martinique (except for Native Soil, but I haven’t included it here because that’s a book about Jason Lawrence). 

But for convenience, here is the READING ORDER FOR ZOE MARTINIQUE

The individual books are listed here with links to their pages on this site (as of the posting of this information, the books are only available on Kindle. More vendors coming this week). Please excuse the quality of the images, I’ll be fixing those in the next week or so.

Also, if you want them all in one spot, scroll down for the anthology. 

WEB GINN HOUSE
This is the first story with Zoë and Nona, before WRAITH, before anything else. This story was originally published in the DAW anthology, CRIME SPELLS.

OUT OF THE DARK
When I wrote Wraith, I wrote it kinda long. This story was a part of the original book (though not finished at the time) before I cut it off at the bathroom scene. This story is very Dags centric and takes place in the last scene of WRAITH. 

HOLLY & IVY
This story was written as a promo for a local shop I adore, The Phoenix & Dragon Bookstore. The ghosts in this book are real, as is the hole in the basement of the shop. 

BEYOND THE DOOR
This book is a bridge novella between REVENANT and GEIST. 

WALKING SHADOWS
This takes place between GEIST and DOMINION. 

SOUL CAGE
A bridge novella between GEIST (Book 5) and DOMINION (Book 6) of the Zoë Martinique Investigation Series, SOUL CAGE introduces the issues at stake at the opening of DOMINION. 

Also, for those who do not want to get them separately and want to keep them all together, there is an anthology called TALES OF THE ABYSMAL PLANE also available.