While going through my word count totals during the last few years, I noticed something missing: short stories . I'd written several novellas and a bunch of novels, but short stories seemed to be missing from my yearly totals. And I'm not sure why. I've always enjoyed re…

The other day I posted this on Twitter: Yep. This thought really hit me the other day. And it's kinda scary.  I've currently got TEN books published, but--because they're all available at the one publisher--when Samhain Publishing closes at the end of this month,…

The White Road by Sarah Lotz My rating: 2 of 5 stars I received an ARC of this book last week. I knew nothing about the story, but the blurb sounded interesting. So I decided to give it a go. Simon Newman a bit of an adrenaline junkie. He's also chasing a different dr…

Devil's Advocate by Jonathan Maberry My rating: 3 of 5 stars I'm a huge fan of The X-Files , so after reading--and really enjoying--Mulder's book, I couldn't wait to read Scully's. It's 1979 and Dana Scully is fifteen. Her family has just moved to …

The X-Files Origins: Agent of Chaos   by Kami Garcia My rating: 5 of 5 stars I'm a huge fan of The X-Files , so when I found out there were two YA books coming out featuring Mulder and Scully, I was totally interested. It's 1979 and Fox Mulder is seventeen. He&#…

By now, you've probably already heard about Samhain Publishing closing at the end of this month . I heard about it in a blanket email sent to authors yesterday. While I was working on the second round of edits for a book that was scheduled to be released by Samhain in April. …

Deliver Me by Kate Jarvik Birch My rating: 5 of 5 stars Yikes! This is such a great book. It's disturbing, made me uncomfortable, but I loved the narrator. Wynne and Odessa are part of the Union. A totalitarian regime that requires total and utter devotion. No one is al…

Even a lone wolf wants to belong...  Fourteen-year-old Linda lives with her parents in an ex-commune beside a lake in the beautiful, austere backwoods of northern Minnesota. The other girls at school call Linda 'Freak', or 'Commie'. Her parents mostly leave her to he…

The Serpent King by Jeff Zentner My rating: 5 of 5 stars O.M.G! This book is incredible. Amazing. Fantastic. Awesome. And just so, HUMAN. I swear, it captures just about every emotion in the three narrators. And makes the reader go through ALL THE FEELINGS. Every single on…