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Introducing Time Walker

My young adult fantasy novel, Time Walker, is out to the beta readers, and I’m gearing up to publish it as an ebook and paperback on December 7, 2012. Time Walker is set ten years after the events of Spirit Binder, but it’s not necessary to have read Spirit Binder before you read Time Walker […]

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writing a (crazy, bloody, funny)(insert adjective) love story

writing a (crazy, bloody, funny)(insert adjective) love story. Someone clicked through and stumbled across this post from March 2011 on the blog yesterday which called it to my attention this morning. … and that does sound like a great story … I should work on that again, but maybe it needs to be a novel […]

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Love Lies Bleeding FREE via amazon #kindle

My novella, Love Lies Bleeding, can be downloaded for free today and tomorrow (Oct 27 & 28) via your Kindle reader or app. If you do grab it for free over the next two days, I would love to hear what you think of it … the novella in itself is a bit of an […]

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A review of Blackheath by Scott Fitzgerald Gray

Blackheath – An Elathien Solo Mystery by Scott Fitzgerald Gray & Quinn Hamilton Synopsis (via Amazon): In the great Free City of Yewnyr, the Blackheath Refuge is home to the victims of the most powerful magic in the Elder Kingdoms — those wounded in body and mind by dark mana, ancient curses, and the hunger […]

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Love Lies Bleeding free — today & tomorrow — via amazon #kindle

My novella, Love Lies Bleeding, can be downloaded for free today and tomorrow (Sept 29 & 30) via your Kindle reader or app. This is the first time I have offered any of my books for free, so it will be interesting to see how the free days go. If you do grab it for […]

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From this week’s writing:

I am currently in the middle of writing the first draft of The Seer of The Wastelands, which is the direct sequel to Spirit Binder, and will be hopefully released this December. Here are some bits from this week that struck me as tiny pieces of gold among the dull, serviceable rock of the first […]

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Hmmm, bon bons …

I just exchanged the following series of texts with Michael: Me: Finished the final pass on LLB*. It’s pretty clean. Only minor corrections needed. I should be able to upload it tomorrow. Michael: Fantastic baby. Me: Yeah!! Happy. Michael: You should be. You’ve been working really hard this year. Me: Really? Seems like playing. You […]

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Goodreads Giveaway – Spirit Binder in Paperback

Enter to win a paperback copy of After the Virus from September 10 – 21, 2012. Accepting international entries. ENTER HERE AUTOGRAPHED COPY! “With magic and spells, blood ties and unknown enemies, Spirit Binder is dark, fun fantasy read that can take you away to another world.” – 4 stars, Headshot Heather, http://doubleshotreviews.com “[Spirit Binder] […]

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Top ten posts of all time …

On a whim — just right now — and perhaps spurned on by this blog post over on Mr. asperger today, I clicked through my stats page to see my top viewed posts of all time. The top ten, disregarding the “home” (#1) and “about” (#3) pages, was very interesting. A gardening post takes the top […]

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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 […]