• News and Whatnot

    Things You Can Read Soon HANG FIRE – Finally!  Thank you, everyone for being patient with me on this one.  HANG FIRE is the twenty-part serial short story I wrote that takes place between DEAD IRON and TIN SWIFT in the Age of Steam steampunk…

  • Vacation + Murder = bunny ears

    My best friend and I decided to get away for a couple days as a birthday gift to each other.  We thought the beach would be a relaxing place to get a room, knit, stare at the ocean, take walks, and catch up on Dr.…

  • Word-by-word

    Here we are almost at the end of February, and I thought I’d do a little recap of my writing year so far.   As of today, I have: Finished writing HELL BENT (although there will be revisions, copy edits and proofs yet to go) Finished…

  • The Knights who say “Knit!”

    So there are a few really cool crochet patterns for knight’s helms out there, but my crocheting skills are pretty rough. When I got a request to knit a knight’s helm for a nephew’s birthday gift, I thought I’d give a knitted version a go.…

  • The Short of It

    I wrote a short story. I was talking about it last week, wondering if I remembered how to do the little tricks that make a short story work since I’ve been so focused on novels the last few years. The obvious difference between writing a…

  • A Good Deed Opportunity

    As I mentioned recently, a local elementary school burned to the ground. The amazing Dina James, and Skyla Dawn Cameron along with the rest of the  Evil League of Evil Writers have put together a terrific auction to raise money for basic necessities for the…