Steven has a new job Australia's Regional Death. On a good day he thinks it has a ring to it, but on a bad day (most of them) it's more of a toll. He s recently averted a Regional Apocalypse, but that s only the beginning. With barely a month to go until the world s thirteen Dea…
And here it is: Isn't it nice? It was made by Dara England , and I think she did an awesome job at capturing Noel and Natala latest adventure. Obviously, this one's not set in Australia. Well, mostly not. :) What do you think? I love it! DEMON OF CHRISTMAS PRESENT will be ava…
Christmas depressed the hell out of Noel Harris. Well, if he was truthful, every day was hard to take without Nancy. But the Christmas season in particular added salt to his very slow-healing wound. It didn’t last one day, like her birthday or their wedding anniversary. It lasted a whole …
<---Check it out! I validated my NaNoWriMo novel today! Yay. Awesome. This is my fifth successful year (in a row) of completing NaNoWriMo , and as you can probably tell... I'm excited! I'm also guest blogging--and chatting a little more about NaNo--over at Beyond …
This is Noel & Natala's first novella. It takes place during a hot Aussie summer. It's also when they meet, and have to face a pretty dangerous situation involving a demon from Natala's past... Darkness is cheap, and demons like it… Noel doesn't like Christmas. The …
Hey! How's everyone's week going? Mine's cool so far. It's really starting to feel like summer here in Sydney and I'm loving every minute of it. I hope it sticks around for a while, because I'm totally over the dreary rain. The sunny days are lovely this time …
Today is the release date! The Killjoys are out in the wild. That's right, DANGER DAYS is now available. I'm so excited! And I absolutely LOVE this album. It's fantastic, awesome, and very inspiring. Actually, it's already inspired a totally crazy idea that I intend to…
Well, hello there new week! How are you? I personally wasn't quite ready to say goodbye to Sunday just yet, but what can I do? It's not like I can stop time or anything. ;) We enjoyed another chill axing Sunday: caught up on a bunch of shows and even managed to squeeze in a m…
The Killjoys rock! ;)
In one of the most acclaimed and strange novels of recent years, Kazuo Ishiguro imagines the lives of a group of students growing up in a darkly skewered version of contemporary England. Narrated by Kathy, now 31, Never Let Me Go hauntingly dramatises her attempts to come to terms with he…
Well, I've been up since about 4AM this morning, so I might be a little loopy right now. lol. Plus, I've been listening to MCR all morning. Well, okay, that's not all I've been doing. I got started on my latest lot of edits: the first round of DEMON OF CHRISTMAS PRESENT--…
Seriously. It's almost the end of another week and I've fallen behind on my blogging over here. I'd been so good most of the month, too. Anyway. There's a good reason for that. I've been busy writing up a storm. Or at least, that's what I was doing yesterday and t…
Gemma, 16, is on layover at Bangkok Airport, en route with her parents to a vacation in Vietnam. She steps away for just a second, to get a cup of coffee. Ty--rugged, tan, too old, oddly familiar--pays for Gemma's drink. And drugs it. They talk. Their hands touch. And before Gemma kno…
After such a lovely summer weekend, who's ready for Monday? Not me, that's for sure. I pretty much took yesterday off from everything but hanging out with hubby, daughter, and kitty... I think I needed that time to recharge. We also went to a bookstore that was interested in the…
Dean and Sam Winchester were raised as Hunters by their widowed father, seeking vengeance on the supernatural elements that took their mother from them. But the road to vengeance is a dark one, and is it a place where children can have any semblance of a life? Picking up several y…
That's right, I've got the final round of edits for my upcoming Evernight Publishing novella to do. So I got started on it yesterday. Here are the stats for NaNo-slash-editing: •NaNo word count: 32,768 •Final round edits page count: 37/87 The NaNo word count includes …
When Tomas and his son, Peter, settle in Chust as woodcutters, Tomas digs a channel of fast-flowing waters around their hut, so they have their own little island kingdom. Peter doesn't understand why his father has done this, nor why his father carries a long, battered box, whose myst…
Yeah, looks like it's going to be another one of those days. *yawn* We did a weights workout last night and then had to wake up at 4am, so that pretty much explains why everything hurt as soon as I opened my eyes. lol. Still, the day must go on. First thing I did was get stuck int…
I hope it ends up being a good day, too. ;) I actually got stuck into writing as soon as hubby walked out the door. I knew I wouldn't get too many words added before my daughter woke up, but some is much better than none . So, I ended up adding another (just over) 1k. And of cours…
Yeah, not sure what's going on there... but I feel dizzy. I woke up that way, and suspect that it might have something to do with not getting enough sleep. :/ Think I should try to get an early one tonight. Yeah. Yesterday, I wound up writing up a storm, and by the time I he…
1910. A cabin north of the Arctic Circle. Fifteen-year-old Sig Andersson is alone. Alone, except for the corpse of his father, who died earlier that day after falling through a weak spot on the ice-covered lake. His sister, Anna, and step-mother, Nadya, have gone to the local town for he…
Seriously, they do. We had a great time. Especially since hubby didn't work on Saturday. I was really glad because he got to sleep in for two days in a row, which has become quite a luxury. :) But, I still managed to add a bit to my NaNoWriMo story on Saturday (2,010w), though I did…
She can control her pack, but not her heart.... While other teenage girls daydream about boys, Calla Tor imagines ripping out her enemies throats. And she wouldn t have it any other way. Calla was born a warrior and on her eighteenth-birthday she ll become the alpha female of the next ge…
This is the companion story to THE SOUL DEALER: Deception . If you ever wondered what happened to Cain, this is where the answer lies... When someone is killed too suddenly or tragically, there’s a creature ready to bargain for their soul… Cain was killed by a sorcerer and dumped insid…
Here are the stats for Day 3 of my NaNo-slash-editing: •NaNo word count: 8,128 •First round edits page count: 62/88 But of course, that's not an accurate-up-to-date account because I spent this morning adding some new words to the story. I managed to add over 2k before my daughter…
About time. Seriously, it's been so dark and dreary lately that I keep forgetting this is supposed to be spring. :/ Bring on the warm, pleasant days and keep the rain away for a little while. I'm getting sick of my raincoat. lol. Well, the second day of NaNo-slash-editing w…
A full colour, behind the scenes look at the bestselling world of the HOUSE OF NIGHT. Merry meet, fledgling. I trust this guide will serve you well... Every vampyre fledgling who arrives at the House of Night receives a copy of The Fledgling Handbook 101, and now, fans can have…
Yeah, that's how I'm feeling at the moment. Well, it's either that, or exactly how the monkey on the left feels. lmao. I have to admit that my first day of NaNo-slash-editing worked out quite well. Here are the stats: NaNo word count: 3,560 First round edits page count: 23/8…
And of course... the website's going nuts already. It's a tradition, happens every year. ;) Anyway. I got started on my story early this morning. I've added the first 1,347 words . Yay. Not a bad start. I wanted to add a short Prologue at the beginning, and that's exactly…
