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 world in an apocalyptic event. It is book one of the Cascadian Chronicles. The second book, Time Walker, is a young adult novel and will be released in the fall of 2012.

Available as an ebook June 2012 and in print July 2012

Synopsis: Theo woke severely injured, covered in blood, and missing ten years of her life. Just to complicate matters further, Theo was born under a prophecy — one that has rabid followers with three different interpretations, all of whom are willing to sacrifice her in order to fulfill it. Not knowing if she can trust the stranger she’s betrothed to, the warrior visiting her dreams, or even her own mother, Theo tries to piece together her past only to find that her present is far more dangerous. It’s the power of her own blood that scares her most of all. This is a responsibility Theo never wanted, and a destiny she cannot deny, “all because of a prophecy she was trying not to believe in, but kept fulfilling.”

ARCs currently available for reviewers upon request

ETA: May 28, 2012 – we changed up the font treatment. Here is the updated version.

1st pass of the 1st draft of the 2nd novel – DONE!

This is the – handwritten – 1st complete draft of my 2nd, currently untitled, novel.

Tomorrow I will commence my 2nd pass of the 1st draft via computer, but today – I cannot think of a better day – Valentine’s Day – to finish the 1st pass of my next love story, because, despite the fact that this is a fantasy novel full of magic and swords and lost memories, it is ultimately a love story… for that is what I write… that is what I believe in:

True Love Conquers All.

(Always & Forever After)

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

I have a crazy, bloody, dark & funny love story resting underneath my fingertips.

I’ve been working on unleashing it for a couple of years now. Yes, a couple of years.

I know that this story starts with a funeral, ends with a wedding and people die in-between – hopefully only the bad or irredeemable guys, though I make no promises.

The story is about all the crazy things that happen to us, the crazy things you think you can’t tell anyone or… you know… they’ll think you are seriously insane or on your way there at least. Except true love doesn’t acknowledge deal breakers and the person who is your perfect pair is just as fucked up as you, only differently – so, you know, you aren’t fighting over the same energy. Plus with each other you can leave all that shit behind anyway.

There will be lots of rain, guns and a musical number in this screenplay, probably under threat of death. There are childhood friends and drug dealers; in fact they might be one and the same. There will be a stalker and an ex-wife, who may just as well fall in lust themselves. Someone might be pregnant, someone might be a spy – actually that might be the opening to the plot – he runs an import/export business – ya, right. She’s a colour blind interior decorator who has a thing for dance poles and 80s music, she also can shoot a gun, but why is nobody’s business. Cue sweet songs & honey – it’s going to be a wild ride.

And I am going to do it all in 90 minutes – 100 tops.

Listening to: Real, Real Gone by Van Morrison

Channeling: The Coen Brothers & Penny Marshall