Happy Birthday to Me and a g1ft for you

Today is my birthday. I like gifts, but I can never decide what I want so this year I’m going to give! Today only, my first book, Come the Shadows, is free at the community website Worldliterarycafe. To access the gift you simply need to complete a free registration on the site. Enjoy! Actually, I [...]

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All Aboard the SuperSonic #TeaserTrain!

Today is a special TeaserTrain Thursday – the WLC is hosting a SUPERSONIC TeaserTrain where you can check out all the books at once. Be sure to also search the #teasertrain tag on Twitter to see all the books and links to their excerpts, including my excerpt from COME THE SHADOWS and the one I [...]

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COME THE SHADOWS is now a bestselling Mystery!

For awhile I’ve wanted to break into the top 5k books on the Kindle (or Nook) store and lo and behold…..COME THE SHADOWS went all the way to 724 yesterday And, this morning, I saw the UK store: So now the book is rightfully an ‘international bestseller’ and I am a ‘bestselling author’. I love [...]

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#teasertrain Thursday – Choo Choo! COME THE SHADOWS featured

I am happy to announce I am participating in a new feature on Thursdays – the Teaser Train! Please check out Shelia R Lamb’s blog to read an excerpt of COME THE SHADOWS. Other authors featured today : AR Silverberry – WYNDANO’S CLOAK – @ Howard Hopkin’s blog TM Souders – WAITING ON HOPE – [...]

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Cover Art – Red Sky Warning

It’s here! Last night we finalized the cover art for the next book in the Campbell Creek Mysteries: Red Sky Warning. Only 3 weeks to go! We also tweaked the original just a little. This is a 3-part series and the covers all work together. It’s a learning process. When I put out book one [...]

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Review and Interview – Norma Budden loves Come the Shadows

I’ve been connecting with a lot more people on both Twitter and Goodreads lately. Social media is such an important part of the new Author Paradigm, as Karen Baney pointed out here recently, and it comes with pleasant surprises and support. Author Norma Budden took the time to pick up my book and give a [...]

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Second Verse, Harder than the First

I’ve read multiple lines that all say the same thing: The second novel is much harder to write than the first I breezed through the first draft of my second novel, Red Sky Warning, spending almost one less month writing it than I spent on the first book, Come the Shadows. Great, right? Commence back-patting. [...]

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Playing Catch-Up

It’s time to play catch-up. Or drag my feet. Whichever way you want to look at it. Thursday evening I completely finished my massive typing job. I was disappointed to find out the book is currently only 48.5k words (Come the Shadows is 66k, almost exactly average for the genre) but know that editing turns [...]

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Final day for the 99c deal on Come the Shadows

Just a quick post in reminder that today is the last day to get Come the Shadows for 99 cents! Kindle – Come the Shadows Nook – Come the Shadows Smashwords – Come the Shadows The short story One Final Night (which now has a few more 5-stars on Amazon!) will remain free.

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Time to go old school

I wrote Come the Shadows without any form of outlining. I knew the answer to whodunit (which, coincidentally, changed) and that’s about it. It was based on a script I wrote 3 years ago, which provided about 5% of the content of the book. The rest I wrote very organically, step by step, day by [...]

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