A Day Late, A Mind Short

Oops. Real life often has a way of getting in your face and it smacked my upside the head yesterday, LOL My lovely daughter just bought her ...

films vs books

Ever watched a good movie, only to cringe at some of the things done by the characters? I've sat there and thought "No! I would hav...

Arrggh!

Avast! And...stuff. It's International Talk Like A Pirate Day! So shivvy up, ye scurvy dawgs, and show some love for your favorite pir...

Ever Felt Like A Character in the Play of Life?

I’ve been making up stories for as long as I can remember. Not only did I draw pictures to illustrate them, my sister and I also set about r...

World Series of Sequels...

I am a sequel junkie. When I read a really good book I always wonder if there are others that will come later in the series, will there be ...

Flip a coin

What a terrific bunch of posts about villains! And if the books are as good as the excerpts, (I’m sure they are!) I’m going to have some gre...

Star-Crossed Romance

Star-Crossed Romance Villains I love villains. Face it, they make the story go forward, for without the villain plotting the downfall of th...

7 Degrees of Separate Villians

I have to say, I really love to write villians. There is a certain freedom in writing them that I don't necessarily feel with my heroin...

Eeee-Vil

What makes a truly evil character? What makes an engaging villain? Who are the ones you love to hate, and why? This is a question that pla...

Fable Me Evil

Mwahaha! That maniacal laugh would be the call to arms (or final gloat over your dying body) from Rumius, villain-superb from TIES OF VALOR....

What Makes A Good Villain Tick?

To continue our discussion of villains, let me ask this. Is the best villain someone who personifies the ultimate evil, who has no redeeming...

Villains! You got to have them!

Starting today, we're having a two week period to discuss our book's villains and I get to lead off :D As you all know, the hero/her...

Celebrating Heartstone

To celebrate the release of Heartstone, I'm offering a prize drawing for members of my newsgroup (to be chosen at random). The prize: A ...

sci-fi/futuristic romance Food musings

well, isn't this just ducky! I'm supposed to be doing a post (and late again - someone smack me with a wet noodle!)...and my mind i...

The Flexibility of Time

Sounds like a great title, right? I should be launching right about now into an exciting discourse on time travel, or temporal streams, or ...

Day Late and $1.98 Short- Again

Damn and Crap!!! Once again word comes to me that one of the ideas that I have had brewing in my most troubled and twisted mind is being mad...

What's In A Name?

Why is it that choosing a name for someone seems like witling characters out of stone? I mean I can see the necessity to name a real child, ...

Never Go to Pluto

It’s a Mickey Mouse Planet. That joke is older than I am, but now it has a new punch line. Never Go to Pluto – it’s not a planet at all! Acc...

Survival Tactics?

This has certainly been my week to blog :D I had a turn at the Triskelion Authors Blog and one at Sisters of the Night . You might want to ...

Star-Crossed Romance

High Tech vs Medieval-style sci-fi Why is it, I wonder, that so many sci-fi/futuristic romances are set in either high tech society, or in a...

A Vacation From the Vacation

Why is it that I feel like I need a vacation to recover from my vacation? This year, Clan Xandra divided our time between the Pennsic War a...

Zara Grills Somthing Besides Supper

“When I crash landed on Beryl what was the first thing about me that caught your eye?” Zara Dior nudged her significant other’s knee with he...

Coming in September to Amber Quill

Yesterday I got my cover art for my new science fiction romance! Ravensatr's Bride has been on the drawing board for a long time and I...

Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Plot

By now most people who know me also know that I get most of my ideas from dreams or that hazy little twilight of storytelling I do right bef...

Star-Crossed Romance

Star-Crossed Romance Hi all! It was actually my day yesterday, but for some strange reason, cyberspace didn't like me and woudn't l...

Heartstone -- Eric d'Ebrur

I wanted to let you all know that to celebrate Heartstone's release, I'm having a contest for members of my newsgroup. The prize wil...

Heroes Among Us

Sci-Fi wants to know WHO WANTS TO BE A SUPERHERO? My answer—jumping up and down like a cheerleader on a sugar high, my hands waving wildly i...

Heartstone is here!

Just thought I'd let you all know that Heartstone is now available to purchase at Triskelion! I didn't expect it to be available un...