I just signed the contract, so I can announce. New books Coming!!! In July, Raisonne Curse, will enter the world. I placed my southern Gothic trilogy with an editor I knew would put her heart and soul into these books with me. Holly Atkinson at Samhain LOVES the area these books are set and she…
Category: Fiction Roughs
Unnatural Selection Snippet
I’m working on an R&R for Foretold, the first in my Norse YA trilogy. And because I feel like I’m seriously neglecting readers here, I’m going to share another snippet of the dystopian YA I plan to rewrite as soon as this is done and off. I REALLY love Rae and the others in this…
In The Mood To Share… Again ;)
I haven’t written FORECAST entirely, but I miss writing my Sisters of Fate so much, I write on it as a reward when I hit word count on other manuscripts. Turns out I’ve got pieces of this book all over the place. I’ve been gathering all the work on it and stumbled across a cool…
How About a Treat?
At least I hope it’s a treat for you. Because of my absence this past week and the cramming I have planned for this upcoming week–I’m rewriting the beginning of this book due to rewrites I did on the first one–I’m sharing and leaving up the very first sneak peek into Forecast, book two in my Norse…
Unnatural Selection Snippet!
Okay, after yesterday’s long-winded and a little too honest post, how about something fun? Sneak peek? This is rough draft work so it will go through changes, but it’s from UNNATURAL SELECTION, a futuristic–somewhat dystopian young adult I’m working on. I plan to write a short series in the Surviving Scrap City novels. The opening…
Unnatural Selection (New YA series WIP)
I’m getting a dystopian young adult proposal together for my agent, so I will be writing like crazy the next couple of weeks. Not only do I plan to turn in a proposal, but I’m starting an official word count for this book. This means I’m writing through to the end. I have more written on the…
Snippet Again
For those who missed the snippet I posted at The Deadline Dames, here tis again. (Click on the link for the visual, music and comments that go with!) I’m a little busy these days getting ready to move. My nights are spent writing–occasionally, when I’m not too tired– because all this brainless packing activity frees the…
At The Deadline Dames Today
I bravely posted a snippet from the young adult novel now in my capable agent’s hands. It will probably go through changes she’ll suggest, but you can get a glimpse of a work in progress at the beginning stages. Not too big a glimpse since I don’t want to give the story away. Click on the…
Nadia’s Bench
Today feels like a day for sharing. I wrote this story years ago and in fact, my style has changed considerably over the years. It’s certainly not my best work. But this little story won my first ever first place award in 2001. It beat eighty other short, short stories and the look of shock…
Happy Friday Night! In the Mood to Share…
So, it’s Friday night and for once, I don’t have somewhere to go. Not too long ago, I mixed diced tomatoes, rich, red wine and a packet of Liption’s Beefy Onion. I spilled it over tenderized round steak and put it in the over to cook a long, long time. And since I have that…