After publishing my urban fantasy novel, Curse Me Not, which is about a woman who can cleanse curses off people’s auras, I was surprised by readers asking me about aura health. My novel was, by definition, fiction, so I turned to real world experts and was surprised th...
My favorite fiction to curl up with has usually been a variation of urban fantasy and paranormal romance. Yet now after bingeing on the genre for a while, I find myself diversifying.
Yes, I grew bored with the standard tropes associated with, let’s call it...
Sometimes shit happens and I feel compelled to “go there,” to speak my mind. And so…
To me it seems things have taken a turn in the U.S. that’s unlike anything I’ve seen over the past half-century. And, well, you know the Edmund Burke quote: “The only thing necessary...
I’ve had my first novel published. I’ve garnered great reviews. I’ve created my website, my blog, my fool Twitter feed (or whatever!). I’m even close to finishing the novella that will act as a bridge to my second novel. So now it’s time to start on that seco...
Cats have long been associated with the paranormal. One might first think of them as feline familiars to witches, but that is not the beginning or end of their story. In Japan, myths say cats turn into super spirits when they die. Another culture believes cats routinel...
Paranormal romance is not just for women. Okay, maybe it’s mostly for women, but not just for woman.
Frankly, if I was a dude and wanted a peak into the female psyche, I wouldn’t just read paranormal romance—I’d study it. Solid clues about us girls can be found in every...
As a member of the Knoxville Writers Guild, and in particular of the Guild’s Sci-Fi/Fantasy Writers’ Group, I recently joined in on a writing experiment that was downright fun. The idea, which was thought up by another member of the group, was that each of us write a s...
Hopefully, some of you have checked out a few of my posts since I began this blogging adventure just a few months ago. If you haven’t, now would be as good a time as any. I’ll wait . . .
Now comes the hard part. You have to let me know what you think. I put a lot of...
It’s only natural that my debut novel, Curse Me Not, should fall into the genre that I read the most and like the best—paranormal romance. What’s unnatural, however, is the novel doesn’t involve any of the usual elements found in the genre. Not a one. In fact, to some...
Hopefully, some of you have checked out a few of my posts since I began this blogging adventure just a few months ago. If you haven’t, now would be as good a time as any. I’ll wait . . .
