WARNING: THE FOLLOWING EXCERPT MAY CONTAIN SPOILERS FOR I SEE ME, ORACLE 1 Click here for the OPENING 500 words of Chapter One Click here for the second 500 words of Chapter One CHAPTER ONE CONTINUES (2): I glanced over at the cash counter. Sid and Lina were still wrapped up in their electronic devices. The laundromat was […]
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WARNING: THE FOLLOWING EXCERPT MAY CONTAIN SPOILERS FOR I SEE ME, ORACLE 1 CHAPTER ONE “There are zombies in Florida.” I looked up from ironing butterfly patches onto my well-worn blue jeans just as Lina, the owner of the laundromat, plugged another quarter into one of the dryers in the bank she’d commandeered for the day. […]
Warning: the following excerpt is unedited and unproofed. A black butterfly flitted through my peripheral vision. My stomach bottomed out even as I raised my head to follow the butterfly’s flight path. It danced along the eaves of the garage, then up over Beau’s shoulder. He didn’t seem to notice as it stopped to kiss […]
The muttering and fretting of the crowd grew, but it was just a wash of useless noise. Beau had drilled me with contingency plans, over and over again. I was supposed to call Audrey if we got separated. I was supposed to make it back to the pack if anything ever happened to him. I […]
Something bit me in the ass. I shrieked like a toddler deprived of her ice cream cone, whirled around with my jade knife poised to gut the offender, and found myself staring at yet another endless wall of musty old books. This wasn’t the first time I’d been ambushed in the nexus library — the books […]
Okay – as I mentioned here – I’m rereading I See Me, Oracle 1 in preparation for writing Oracle 2. I’ve written and released Dowser 4 as well as written Dowser 5 since having Rochelle and Beau in my head, so I wanted to acquaint myself with their voices before really digging into the next book […]
Last December I decided to give my novel, Spirit Binder, which was originally published in June 2012, a freshening up. I had it reproofed, beta’d, and did some light editing myself. I’d received some consistent feedback that there were typos in the original (there were, damn it!) and that the opening chapter was a little difficult […]
Fractured. Unbound. Pieces splintered, seemingly irretrievable. An overwhelmingly dreadful, insanely painful energy crushed her together. Again. Then pulled her apart. She was undone. It was too much. She wasn’t going to make it through. How she had ever thought she was tough enough, focused enough, to even be here, she didn’t know. In fact, now […]
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Dowser 4 – excerpt
FIVE DAYS OF GIVEAWAYS START TOMORROW HERE AT 8 AM PST!!!! How about an excerpt to tide us over until then? *SPOILER ALERT for Dowser 1 – 3* SHADOWS, MAPS, AND OTHER ANCIENT MAGIC CHAPTER ONE The blade was inches from my neck before I felt it. Thankfully, I had my blond curls clipped back […]
“There’s that guy again.” Sprawled facedown over the black vinyl chair, I had a perfect view of West Broadway through the storefront window of Get Inked. “What guy?” Tyler muttered as he hunched over my bare shoulder with his two-coil tattoo machine. Someone had to come up with a better name for that, other than […]