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to an online bookseller near you… First Contact  Earth’s Ambassador to Tolar, Smithton Adler Russell, gets a call in the middle of the night. Field Work The ruler of Monralar is ambitious, ruthless, and out to unseat the Sural. Can the Sural put a...

An Amazon Review That Really Got It

I didn’t emphasize the psychological study part of my novel, but I was hoping someone would notice. Someone did. In the wee hours of the night last night, my book received a review on Amazon from a domestic abuse and sexual assault crisis counselor. It really...

Spoiler Sunday

“He is old, so very old. Storaas is waiting to die. He still delights in teaching Kyza, the heir to Suralia, but he is unlikely to live to see her grown. Why does he allow himself to decline? What happened to destroy his will to live? The Sural stops short of...

Spoiler Sunday

I won’t reveal who Marianne is talking to here. That’s much too big a spoiler.  “What in the world is going on in Parania?” Marianne asked. “The Sural wouldn’t talk about it, then right after breakfast he took off for Monralar, after muttering...

Spoiler Sunday

The past couple of days have been very heady. The Marann has been flirting with the top 1000 paid in the Kindle Store. This morning, I woke to find it at #872. A couple of hours later, it’s at #915. Its rankings seem to peak while I’m asleep, so lately...

Random Thoughts on a Hump Day Morning

It’s Wednesday. I’m not sure how it got to be Wednesday, because I’m pretty sure the last time I blinked it was Saturday afternoon. My, how time flies when most of your kids have left home. Or something. While the United States was arguing with...

Spoiler Sunday

Good morning, my friends! Here’s a spoiler for you (from a story that shall remain mine to know and yours to find out). <grin> She wanted to rub her eyes, but she was too weak to lift her arms. There was no need to open her eyes, darn it. She knew there...