Scheherazade’s Facade, a new anthology full of gender-bending stories, including one of mine, is now on sale here: http://bit.ly/XLvqvJ There is an excerpt at the link to whet your appetite.…Continue readingJust in time for Christmas
Patrick Samphire recently said on his blog: “Choosing favourite books is like choosing your favourite children; you really can’t have more than five of them.“ I rather like that thought…Continue readingFive favorite books (or series)
To celebrate being selected as finalists for the EPIC Award for best anthology, Dark Quest Books and I are giving away three copies of ‘River’ on Goodread here ____________________ RIVER…Continue readingWin a copy of my anthology on Goodreads
It was just after winter was beginning lose its grip on the Pacific Northwest, sometime in mid-February of 2004, that I walked into the local Petco on adoption day and…Continue readingGood bye, my Christmas kitten.
Jean Vallesteros interviewed me at JeanBookNerd.com and asked a very perceptive question: Why is storytelling so important for all of us? I told her and her avid readers this in…Continue readingInterview, review and giveaway
Would you betray your kind? Your race? Your species? I watched two movies a while back which made me examine my own feelings on the matter – the first, in…Continue readingBeing Human
Here’s the thing. First drafts are supposed to be awful. That’s what they are for. You simply give yourself the permission necessary to write badly if you have to, for…Continue readingThe art of (re)writing
There are novels you read over and over again, books that seems to resonate through you, novels you’d brave fire for. Blogger Alison-Goodman calls them talisman books, those “that ward…Continue readingTalisman Books
A Q&A about my newest book. 1. What is the working title of your book? It started out as just “Spanish Gardens”, then morphed into “Midnight at Spanish Gardens” as…Continue readingBooks and mirrors