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Need a good summertime read? Who doesn’t? I honestly never thought about reading It Happened One Doomsday poolside, but that’s the verdict from book review site That’s What I’m Talking About. They especially liked the main character, Dru: “She was entirely…
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“Lots of action and fun!” –One Book Two
Don’t you just love it when something turns out even better than you expected? Me too. And I’m happy to report that the fine ladies over at One Book Two had that exact experience when they read my book. Here’s what they…
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“Engaging urban fantasy” –Library Journal
This is crazy. Publishers Weekly, Kirkus Reviews, RT Book Reviews — those are all big-name places. Some writers spend their entire careers metaphorically waving their arms, hoping to catch the attention of these literary heavy hitters. When one of them singles…
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Win a “magic crystal” at The BiblioSanctum!
In my new book, IT HAPPENED ONE DOOMSDAY, I wanted to create an utterly unique system of magic. By chance, I had a conversation with Dan Aykroyd from Ghostbusters, who’s a big believer in the metaphysical properties of crystals. Weird.…
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Book Signing at the Tattered Cover 7/19/16 at 7 PM
Come meet me! I’ll be reading and signing IT HAPPENED ONE DOOMSDAY at the venerable Tattered Cover book store in Aspen Grove. Come see, handle (and enter to WIN) the actual crystals Dru uses to cast her magic… Hear me read…
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“Magical” crystal giveaway PLUS win a paperback book!
The amazing Anya over at OnStarshipsAndDragonWings.com is giving away a copy of IT HAPPENED ONE DOOMSDAY in paperback. Which is awesome But there’s a very cool bonus: She’s also giving away an actual real-life galena crystal. Just like the one…
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The wait is over. It Happened One Doomsday has just been released!
This is phenomenal. IT HAPPENED ONE DOOMSDAY just went on sale this morning, and already Amazon has almost run out. There are only a few left in stock. So go get yours while you can! And if you can’t get…
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Want to Get Published? Read This.
I’ve talked to dozens of best-selling authors about their early years, before they were published. And the similarities between them are striking. On average, they wrote about half a dozen unpublished manuscripts before they sold a novel. (By the way, this is what I call the Myth of the First Novel. Because it’s hardly ever…
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Compelling Character Arcs in 4 Easy Steps
I’ll let you in on a secret: readers want your character to change. They know, deep down, that your character is unhappy with the status quo at the beginning of your book. Something is terribly wrong in your character’s life, and things can’t keep going on this way. Something’s got to give. Readers fervently hope…
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