From critically-acclaimed author Trish Doller comes a powerful new psychological page-turner perfect for fans of Lauren Oliver and Sara Zarr.   Eighteen-year-old Arcadia wants adventure. Living in a tiny Florida town with her dad and four-year-old brother, Cadie spends most of …

Can you believe it? Yikes!   Well, it looks like this is now my go-to pic whenever I blog. But how can it not be? I mean, it pretty much captures me during winter: a robe-wearing, book-reading, tea/coffee-drinker who breaks up her hibernation for daily walks. :)   Seriously, t…

Luke's just inherited 6 million... And eight ghosts who want him dead.   When Luke Manchett's estranged father dies suddenly, he leaves his son a dark inheritance. Luke has been left in charge of his father's ghost collection: eight restless spirits. They want revenge f…

Hey, how are you today? The other day Andrea Johnson from SF Signal  interviewed me. I always love popping in when Andrea interviews me because she comes up with great, fun questions. This time we chatted about my latest SFR release, my upcoming UF release, and some of my reading ha…

The Girl on the Train by Paula Hawkins My rating: 5 of 5 stars I've had my eye on this book for a while, so I put it on hold at the library. Problem was, 60 other people did the same. LOL. But it was eventually my turn to borrow it. As soon as I started reading, I wa…

As you can tell from last week's posts, I've been catching up on some reading. Mostly I've been reading intriguing books, but yesterday I finished one that was disappointing. :( There's nothing worse than reading the next book in a series that I like and not enjoying…

Lizzy Tucker is happy to work quietly at Dazzle's Bakery, preparing delicious treats for the locals. But her partner Diesel is all about the hunt. Right now he's tracking down a famous pirate's treasure, hidden somewhere along the coast of New England. This bounty contain…

Pieces of Sky by Trinity Doyle My rating: 5 of 5 stars OMG. This book... made me sad, made me cry, and filled me with hope. My daughter actually read it last week and told me it was a great book, so I couldn't put it off any longer. And I pretty much devoured it. It's…

Q&A WITH TRUDI:   1)       Why Fantasy?   I’ve always been fascinated by stories in which people could do impossible things. As a child I loved fairytales and myths, and I was always attracted to childrens books with ‘magic’ in them. I suspect I was always that child who…

Enjoy Wild Hearts and the other standalone titles in Bloomsbury's contemporary If Only romance line centered around an impossible problem: you always want what you can't have!   Brie Carter's father's land development business has taken her family all over the world…

Do you remember that Lavie spin-off novel I kept talking about? You know, the one starring the demon hunter Lavie Grye from my Sierra Fox series ? Well, I have some awesome news about that book... I signed another contract with Samhain Publishing ! Yay. This is actually my tenth…

The riveting companion book to the highly anticipated documentary about the life of Nirvana frontman and grunge legend Kurt Cobain, featuring expanded exclusive interviews with the family and friends who knew him best and never-seen-before photographs and artwork.   More than twent…

Yes. They certainly do.   Remember the last time I dropped in I mentioned that I was taking a week off and then would get stuck into writing a new story? Well, things didn't exactly work out that way.   By the time I reached the end of last week, I realised that I hadn'…

'Wake up, genius.' So begins King's instantly riveting story about a vengeful reader. The genius is John Rothstein, a Salinger-like icon who created a famous character, Jimmy Gold, but who hasn't published a book for decades. Morris Bellamy is livid, not just because Ro…

Hey! You know what time it is, right?   It's HORROR BLOCK time, and this month it arrived super early. Yay.   I get super excited about this box and know nothing about the contents. Well, except for the clues that are given on Twitter: something about Silent Hill , and a Ha…

So, LOOT CRATE arrived the other day:     The theme for May was UNITE:   Here's what was inside:      Um. This box was... disappointing. I wasn't really excited about any of the items. Actually, the only thing I wanted was a badge with a cute unicorn from…

Fletcher was nothing more than a humble blacksmith's apprentice, when a chance encounter leads to the discovery that he has the ability to summon demons from another world. Chased from his village for a crime he did not commit, he must travel with his demon to the Vocans Academy, w…

Whoa. It's been another very busy couple of weeks!   As you probably noticed, last week the fourth book in my SFR RECAST series was released. Yay. To help celebrate the occasion, I stopped by a few places to chat about robots and answer some cool questions. It was a lot of fu…