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MCD: Summer & Fall 2019

Posting my schedule/upcoming releases, etc so I have it pinned all in one place instead of just occasionally mentioning it whenever I’m asked in various places online. 🙂 If you have any spoiler-free questions, let me know in the comments and I will endeavour to answer them and/or add the answers below. NOVELS Current release: Bonds and […]

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Amplifier 2: cover reveal and synopsis

I figured I should probably ‘officially’ reveal the book cover for Bonds and Broken Dreams (Amplifier 2), as well as share the synopsis, so here it is in all its glory! Synopsis: We had chosen our place, etching our lives into a new land. Then we had defended that land when called upon to do so. And we’d […]

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Demons and DNA: Chapter One, Part One

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 […]

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MCD: Spring 2019

Posting my spring schedule/upcoming releases, etc so I have it all in one place instead of just occasionally mentioning it whenever I’m asked in various places online. If you have any spoiler-free questions, let me know in the comments and I will endeavour to answer them and/or add the answers below. NOVELS Current release: The Amplifier Protocol […]

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Amplifier Series: tea and ginger snaps

Emma (aka Socks aka Amp5) from the Amplifier Series has a bit of a thing for ginger snaps and tea. The ginger snap obsession comes from her first Christmas party (see The Amplifier Protocol) and she has two go-to recipes: hand-rolled and sliced. I’ve also added the hand-rolled Chewy Ginger Snaps recipe to the Adept […]

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Amplifier Series: preorder giveaway

The novelette, Close to Home (Amplifier 0.5) falls between the prequel, The Amplifier Protocol (Amplifier 0), and the first book of the main series, Demons and DNA (Amplifier 1), in the reading order of the Amplifier Series. I have bundled Close to Home (A0.5) with the prequel, which releases on all retailers tomorrow, Tuesday, March […]

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Amplifier 0 – serialization complete!

It’s a gorgeous Spring day here in the Pacific NorthWest – the sun holds a gentle kiss of heat, the garlic is sprouting, and Michael is building three, yellow cedar containers for the two new apples and the second grape we’re adding to our mini orchard. I’m working on the 1st draft of Amplifier 2 […]

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Book Club: Amaskan’s Blood by Raven Oak

The second book in the Kick-Ass Heroine Fantasy Book Club is Amaskan’s Blood by Raven Oak! I will start a discussion thread in my reader run fan group as well, but feel free to comment on this post if you aren’t on Facebook. FYI – Amaskan’s Blood can currently be found in the 2019 SFWA Fantasy Storybundle but only until Feb […]

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Kick Ass Heroine Fantasy Book Bundle (& giveaway)

LAST DAY TO GRAB THIS OFFER!!! Also the giveaway is closed. I’m so pleased to announce that Catching Echoes (Reconstructionist 1) was selected for the SWFA fantasy book bundle along with eleven other incredibly successful and talented authors. The bundle was curated by author Terry Mixon and you will see his ‘curator’s notes’ for each […]

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The Amplifier Protocol: Chapter One, Part One

Chapter One, Part One March 2011. I exited the building onto the roof thirteen minutes after I’d entered via the ground floor. In that time, I had disabled all magical and mundane security, eliminated any resistance, and retrieved the package on the fifteenth floor. Now I was arriving at the extraction point, two minutes ahead […]