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Imitation & Alchemy: Chapter One unlocked #freefiction

I have been waiting for this, wanted to know what happened with Ben.

#TeaserTuesday: Waking Hearts

Looking forward to reading the book!

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Waking Hearts is only one week away!

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I can’t wait for you guys to get back to Cambio Springs. All the gang is back, but this story really belongs to two very special characters, Allison Smith and Oliver Campbell.

These two have been the subject of MUCH speculation over the years, and let’s just say, ALL their (nosy) friends have something to say about their relationship. The teaser today comes from one of my favorite scenes between Ollie and Sean. Writing old friends is fun. Writing old friends FIGHTING is even more fun. (Okay, so there’s probably something twisted about that, but it’s true. Old friends fight differently.)

This book is also an opportunity for readers to see more of Sean Quinn, rattlesnake shifter from the (more-than-slightly-shady) Quinn clan. He left the Springs when he was young and only turned up at…

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FREE fiction and a cover reveal for Imitation & Alchemy.

Awesome

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Pageflex Persona [document: PRS0000446_00068]I’ve been going back and forth on how I wanted to publish Imitation and Alchemy, the second prequel novella for Ben and Tenzin’s Elemental Legacy series. Last year, I published Shadows and Gold as a free serial on my website before I made it available for sale. And I loved doing that! I love being able to occasionally share work with you guys while I’m writing it. It’s very motivating, and I think it’s fun for readers, too.

But then there was some nasty business with bad people stealing an author’s work off her website and forcing Amazon to take it down and halting sales. It was finally resolved in the author’s favor, but I’ll admit, it spooked me.

BUT since I’m going to practice the optimism I was preaching last week on the blog, I’ve decided to go ahead and publish Imitation and Alchemy as a serial on…

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For Writers: The Audacity of Optimism

Bravo!

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Note that this is a drawing. Not an actual female person. Note that this is a drawing. Not an actual female person.

There have been several articles lately about how complicated writing female protagonists can be. We want them strong but not too strong. Amazingly competent but not unrealistic. Gritty but not abrasive.

Blech.

By my count, I have now written thirteen female protagonists (maybe more depending on your definition of protagonist) in my novels and novellas. Here’s some of the reader and reviewer feedback I’ve gotten about my female protagonists:

“clever” “boring, plain, over-emotional, and kinda stupid” “kickass!” “pathetic” “spineless ninny” “awesome” “relatable” “no personality” “one-dimensional” “all-time favorite heroine” “weak” “brilliant”

And ladies and gentlemen, this is all feedback for the same character! I’ll leave you to guess for which because honestly, this could be for any and all of them. Reader perception ranges SO wildly (and always has) that I tend to stick with the philosophy that…

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Release Day Round-up: Beneath a Waning Moon

This looks very interesting

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It’s here!!!

Two delightfully dark tales of Gothic romance from Elizabeth Hunter and Grace Draven.

BENEATH A WANING MOON

In A VERY PROPER MONSTER, Josephine Shaw spends long nights filling the pages of her Gothic stories with the fantastic and the macabre, unaware that the suitor her father has arranged is one of the dark creatures she’s always dreamed. For Tom Dargin, courting an ailing spinster was only one duty in a long life of service to his sire. But after he meets the curious Miss Shaw, will Tom become the seducer or the seduced? Can a love fated to end in tragedy survive a looming grave?

In GASLIGHT HADES, Nathaniel Gordon walks two worlds—that of the living and the dead. Barely human, he’s earned the reputation of a Bonekeeper, the scourge of grave robbers. He believes his old life over, until one dreary burial he meets the woman he…

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