As I was working through my final read of Misfits 1 (before sending it to the proofreader), this made me smile: Ed was perched on the edge of Tony’s desk, looking as though he was contemplating leaping off to get to me. He was wearing what appeared to be a tiny pirate hat on his […]
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I’m about to post SEVEN administrative posts on the blog, namely a welcome sequence. Hopefully you find it somewhat interesting, but I apologize in advance for spamming your inbox and I offer this snippet of Misfits 1 and a cool shot of a headstone that features heavily in the book in recompense. “Where did you […]
I’m about to be sipping a hot chocolate, knitting by the fire, and enjoying a fav audiobook – One Fell Sweep, Innkeeper 3, by Ilona Andrews – but first, I wanted to share an excerpt to celebrate Misfits 1 being sent off for story editing (aka developmental editing) – YAY! The snippet below is one […]
I just dropped Amplifier 3 into the editor’s (aka SFG) inbox. He will take the next month to line and content edit the manuscript (aka wrestling it into submission), then send it back to me for final touches (and proofread, etc). I’m still shooting for an end of November release date. So I get to […]
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Amplifier 2: Chapter One, Part One
FYI. The Amplifier Series begins with The Amplifier Protocol (Amplifier 0). The excerpt below is rife with spoilers if you aren’t up to date. Bonds and Broken Dreams (Amplifier 2) – Chp 1, Part 1 A faint hum of sorcerer magic prickled up my bare arms. I flipped over the back of the couch, grimoire […]
September 2018. A sorcerer pushed open the door of the diner, both of his hands on the metal handle that bisected its glass. Holding himself upright. He raised his shockingly blue eyes, seeking out and pinning me into place in the red-vinyl booth situated at the far corner. My heart fluttered oddly, even as my […]
They called me an amplifier. And they had bred me, raised me, and trained me to be a killer with preternatural precision. I was capable of taking, holding, and transferring power that wasn’t my own with a simple touch. Skin-to-skin contact. Along with four others of my generation, I could infiltrate any magical organization, extracting […]
A man hung suspended in a whirlwind of magic above me. No … not just a man. A dragon. I crouched on the back edge of a six-foot-wide, three-foot-high white platform set above the elven tech I had been tasked to repair, fiddling with a gemstone I’d previously removed. Pretending to work while peering through […]
A cluster of sorcerers had fortified the doors to the stairwell, and likely the entire staircase leading down to the fourth level. Evidentially I hadn’t fooled anyone as to my objective. A murder of sorcerers. Not a cluster. Bee’s presence brushed through my mind. She laughed, quietly deadly. “Helpful,” I muttered, risking a glance down the […]
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Dowser 8.5: Who is Freddie?
“Who is Freddie?” Liam asked, folding his arms and glancing sternly between Jasmine and me. “A shadow leech.” “What the hell is a shadow leech?” “Freddie.” Liam swore under his breath. I stifled a smirk. –Mory, Graveyards, Visions, and Other Things that Byte (Dowser 8.5) COMING AUGUST 23, 2018 PREORDER NOW AMAZON – iBOOKS – […]