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If you haven’t been paying attention, Thrills & Mystery is a great podcast that features a free short story reading every week. Noir, police procedurals, detective mysteries, dark thrillers – there’s been a lot of good writing featured over this season’s episodes. Today, it’s my turn. Blood Magic is a short story about an undercover […]

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What if it’s only chicken blood – smeared on the ground as part of a ritual sacrifice? Well, okay, I’m lying. They’re dead people involved too. But are they suicides or murders? That’s the topic of my new short story, Blood Magic. When they found the first body, no one batted an eye. That was […]

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Well, a cover award anyway. TheBookDesigner gave The Blood of Brothers the very top award in all of fiction in December. On top of that, Bookfly Design is featuring the book on their front page. Many gracious thanks to both sites.

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I’m so happy to announce that Book 1 of Sycamore Moon is now up on Amazon, iTunes, and Audible as an audiobook! The Seventh Sons has great production value and I couldn’t be more pleased with the narrator, Jason Jewett. He spent a lot of time giving the characters distinct voices, and the story flows […]

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Great Books at Great Prices Celebrate the launch of The Blood of Brothers for only $0.99! Book 2 in the Sycamore Moon series is finally available today. For anybody who preordered it, you’ve already gotten a great 99 cents bargain. For everyone else, The Blood of Brothers is still priced at this deal for the […]

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It’s no secret that I love my Sycamore Moon covers. I wanted to give a shout out to Bookfly Design for their amazing work. They’re featuring me on their front page right now. “Bookfly’s portfolio was all the convincing I needed to give them a try, but my experience collaborating with them blew me away.  […]

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The Sycamore Moon series is a mash-up of detective fiction, outlaw action, and fantasy/horror elements such as witches and werewolves. I’ll talk more about the series later when Book 2 launches, but first I want to give readers an update on Book 3, The Green Children. Outlines are important to me. Stories needs to simmer […]

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What does it mean when an author mysteriously stops blogging for a month? Probably that he got lost spirit walking in the desert and woke up naked, soaking wet, and wrapped in an American flag. Or maybe he just finished editing his new behemoth of a novel, The Blood of Brothers. Maybe that doesn’t sound […]

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I don’t usually post reader reviews on my blog, but after a successful GoodReads giveaway for Shade City, Rick Hunter gave me a great one. I thought it was so personal and meaningful that I had to repost it here. Once my attention was finally turned to this novel, I could not put it down. […]

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I’ve been light on updates while trying to complete my final revisions. That said, I’m just about ready to send The Blood of Brothers to my editor. My last checks are just searching my manuscript for words and phrases that I tend to overuse. Sometimes they’re called for, but many times I can make the […]

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