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Insightful blog posts?

I don’t write insightful or instructive blog posts. I read a lot of blogs. I follow all the news about filmmaking or publishing or writing – whatever I happen to be interested in that day – but I don’t write them. It doesn’t really occur to me to share my opinion on such things as […]

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Goodreads Giveaway – After The Virus in Paperback

Enter to win a paperback copy of After the Virus from August 27 – September 7, 2012. Accepting international entries. ENTER HERE AUTOGRAPHED COPY! “After the Virus sucked me in and didn’t let me go – the writing was great, the characterisation excellent and the plot kept me on the edge of my seat.” – […]

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In Today’s Mail: giveaway copies of After the Virus and Spirit Binder

This lovely (and large) box arrived in today’s mail. Oh, yes, those are 10 paperback copies of After The Virus and Spirit Binder. And yes, there will be giveaways. I’ll keep you posted.  

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Guess what came in the mail today?

I almost immediately yanked them out of the box while squealing – I didn’t even hear the mail courier drop them – but I managed to contain myself long enough to grab my phone and snap a picture: These are the proofs for After The Virus and Spirit Binder from Createspace. I been anxiously waiting for these […]

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Spirit Binder Blog Tour

Starting today Spirit Binder will be on a one week blog tour hosted by Bewitching Book Tours. I’ll update with direct links as the posts go live. Here is the current schedule: July 20 Behind A Million And One Pages Guest blog – Post 1: What Inspired Spirit Binder: Opening Scenes July 21 Book Nerd […]

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The Anatomy of a Book Cover

Irene Langholm recently re-envisioned the book cover for After The Virus and the amount of work she put into it was crazy and amazing at the same time. So I thought you all might like to see what an artist does when pitched a basic plot from an author … through concept … to completion. I am […]

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Spirit Binder – book cover reveal

Here is the cover for my next novel, Spirit Binder. I absolutely LOVE it. Irene Langholm, the artist, is currently working on a cover for the print version of After The Virus (hopefully available in July 2012). Spirit Binder is a fantasy set a thousand years after spirit (aka magic) rises to take back the […]

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Around The Web Wednesday…

After The Virus is the Kindle Sponsor of the Day over at David Wisehart’s blog, Kindle Author! 3 new 4 star reviews over at Amazon: “Great debut novel of a post apocalyptic world in which females are hunted” by Cheryl M-M, “Love among the post-apocalypse” by puggle, and “Good Book” by M. hampton. In other book […]

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Harbinger #FlashFiction – round up

How about a by weekly round up of the Flash Fictions currently available for “A Year Before Harbinger”? Please note: These are unedited, non-proofed first drafts. The three entries so far are: – September 30, 2011 – Peace of Mind? – October 14, 2011 – Meaning to the madness? – October 28, 2011 – Not […]

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Around The Web Wednesday…

Writer Suzie Ivy recently read and reviewed my novel, After The Virus – “Bad guys become good, worse guys stay bad and humanity fights for what’s right. What more could I ask for? Oh and then Doidge added zombies. Bottom line, I loved this book!” A brand new project of mine can be found over at Yesterday’s […]