WINDSINGER Launches Tomorrow! By Request: Author Q & A!!

Several of you have reached out either by email, DM or comments on fics and posts to ask me about Windsinger (and the rest of the series), so here ya go!!

Q: Where did you get the idea for Windsinger?

A: This actually came from a short story I wrote a few years back. I was in a writing contest and I really wanted to push my boundaries. I decided to write a short horror piece just to see if I could. In the story, the main character had much the same gift as Cecy (I’m not giving it away) but he didn’t use it as altruistically. He was a selfish, creepy old guy. Anyway, I thought it was a great premise for a novel – this ability, and since this involved air specifically, I started thinking about all the basic elements. And then I wondered how “singers” would present themselves in each of the elements.

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WINDSINGER Is Available For Pre-Order! Here’s A Final Excerpt!! #goodreads #romance #kindle #amwriting

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Only three more days until you meet the Elementals and the Twixters – magical creatures embodying the elements of earth, air, fire and water.

In this scene, Brad and Cecy have spent a night in each other’s arms, only to find their lazy morning upended by the arrival of her mother, an air elemental: Continue reading

The Countdown Is On! WINDSINGER Breaks In FOUR Days!! #amwriting #amwritingromance

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Meet the Elementals – a magical race that inhabits our world embodying the four elements of earth, air, fire and water. Cecy is a “Twixter,” the half-human offspring of an air elemental, who doesn’t always fit in with the rest of our world.

In addition to her magical heritage, Cecy bears another gift, one which will lead her to Brad, a scientist who is studying a very strange phenomenon – one that might signal a far deeper problem and a danger to life as we know it.

Together, they stumble upon a mystery that affects them both, and discover that playing it safe means nothing when love and desire are in the air.

We are four days away from publication! Windsinger is one of my most intricate stories yet – full of intrigue, full of laughs, full of magic, and (you know me…) full of STEAM!!

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In Honor Of #TalkLikeAPirateDay – Read “Eight Nights At Sea” FREE!!! #romance #pirates

That’s right, me hearties!

Saturday is Talk Like A Pirate Day, and to celebrate, I’m offering Eight Nights At Sea ABSOLUTELY FREE today and tomorrow!!

Sail off for eight nights of adventure, intrigue, sarcasm and STEAM with a sexy pirate and his sensuous stowaway! Available in print or Kindle editions, via Amazon!

From Chell Morrow at LoveReadingLaughing.com:

“I will tell you this now–Zephyr already has my heart. This love story is so softly mystical. The details wrap around your heart and pull you in. Zephyr and Rina dance around loving each other so well, the twists and turns I never saw coming. Rina’s secret is so well entwined into the story I forgot she wasn’t who I thought she was (you’ll understand that sentence later, I’m not spoiling that one for you!).  Rina and Zephyr are not your typical lovers and it is amazing. I found my self reading parts to my husband just to share with someone because I couldn’t hold my thoughts in. Eight nights at sea are not enough. If you love a good pirate, or if even if you don’t–this story is so magical it will make your heart spin.”

You can read book excerpts here, here and here!

Write What You Know? Where’s The Fun In That??

“Write what you know,” they say.

Because, if you’re being reasonable, writing about things you know makes perfect sense. Who knows about that? You do! You should write about it so other people can know it, too!

Which is great if you’re writing a memoir. Or a non-fiction book. Or a historical tome. Or a collection of recipes.

But if you write fiction?

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Eleven Days Until WINDSINGER!! Would You Like Another Peek?

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Cecy is part Elemental – a magical race that inhabits our world imbodying the four elements of earth, air, fire and water. Cecy’s mother is an air elemental, and that makes Cecy a “Twixter” – the half-human offspring of an elemental.

In addition to her magical heritage, Cecy bears another gift, one which will lead her to Brad, a scientist who is studying a very strange phenomenon – one that might signal a far deeper problem and a danger to life as we know it.

Together, they stumble upon a mystery that affects them both, and discover that playing it safe means nothing when love and desire are in the air.

In this scene, Cecy has asked Brad to accompany her on a hike, and Brad – who only recently met and became beguiled with this fascinating girl, readily agrees – without the slightest idea of just how fantastical she really is. Continue reading

Like It Or Not, We All Judge A Book By Its Cover

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Yep…that’s a tease! I’ll be revealing the new cover to WindSinger in it’s entirety SOON, but I wanted to give you a tiny tease since today I’m talking about the importance of a book cover.

You only have to go to my Goodreads page to see that the I had some lousy book covers originally for the first two books of the Seeder Saga. They’re embarrassing to look at now and I’ll freely admit that I did them myself, hoping to save a buck. It turns out they cost me money – a lot of money! – because people don’t like to buy books with craptastic covers, especially in eBooks. And that, unfortunately, is because it’s so freaking easy to write a crap book, slap on a homemade crap cover, and publish it.

To Illustrate:

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