What I’ll Do On My Summer Non-Vacation

Two years ago, I started writing The Marann. Little did I know where that would take me! Currently, I’m revising the third book, The Fall, to reflect the changes I made for the Sky Warrior edition of Daughters of Suralia. It’s a lot more work than I...
SFR Brigade Presents: Daughters of Suralia

SFR Brigade Presents: Daughters of Suralia

The SFR Brigade Presents is a weekly snippet blog hop. Click the pic above to check out what the other participating authors posted and find out more about their books! This snippet is from the second edition of Daughters of Suralia (Book 2 of the Tales of Tolari...
The Dough of Doom

The Dough of Doom

It’s growing as I type this. At about 4:35p, my husband made sure I was responding to him (because sometimes when I’m writing, it’s hard to get my attention), and left instructions on what to do with this thing: Then he headed out the door. Erm. Yes....

SPIDER! SPIDER!

No sooner had I stepped into the shower this morning, when a spider the size of a beachball crawled up the inner shower curtain. So I did what any (self-respecting) arachnophobe would do: I screamed and thrashed. This, as you might imagine, attracted the attention of...

New and Improved, With More Space Opera!

Little did I know in May 2012, when I sat down to write about a little girl splashing her peds in a sparkling brook on another planet, that her father and the woman he loved would take over the story. Or that I would end up in April 2014 writing about interprovincial...
The Daughters of Suralia Re-release

The Daughters of Suralia Re-release

Some readers might be wondering why the new edition of Daughters of Suralia does not update their old one. The answer lies in the way books are assigned their ISBN/ASIN — one factor this number depends on is the publisher. Different publisher, different number....

Bonus Story

Here’s something I wrote last fall, a dramatic departure from what I usually write. Perhaps that’s why it wasn’t accepted for publication, or perhaps it’s because I’m a better novelist than a short story writer (they are vastly different...

In which the Author sighs with relief

And so it begins. I wrote an email to my editor, attached the re-edited Daughters of Suralia manuscript, and clicked send. Within hours I received an acknowledgment; she had just begun to cast about for the next editing project. My timing was impeccable. We shall see...