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Review of The Vampire Knitting Club
Blurb: At a crossroads between a cringe-worthy past (Todd the Toad) and an uncertain future (she's not exactly homeless, but it's close), Lucy Swift travels to Oxford to visit her grandmother. With Gran's undying love to count on and Cardinal Woolsey's, Gran's knitting shop, to keep her busy, Lucy can catch her breath and figure out what she's going to do. Except it turns out that Gran is the undying. Or at least, the undead. But there's a death certificate. And a will, leav
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Mar 162 min read
Review of Witches and Fairies and Tacos... Oh My!
Blurb: Charli Quinn and her sister Brielle own House Witches Cleaning and promise to clean like magic. They may not be your everyday,...
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Mar 31, 20252 min read
Review of Cupid's Corset, Harlow!: Ask Crystal Ball Mystery #3
Blurb: Harlow Grayson protects her heart with an iron corset… …and sticking to her cynical view of Valentine’s Day seems safer than...
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Feb 10, 20252 min read
Review of The Librarian of the Haunted Library
Blurb: My escape from a creepy clown lands me in a town straight out of a fever dream. And guess what? I become the new librarian after...
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Nov 25, 20242 min read
Review of Beyond Starlight: An Alien Fated Mate Boxset
Blurb: To the deepest reaches of the galaxy these warriors will fight to find their fated mates. When their females are at the lowest in...
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Nov 19, 20243 min read
Review of Donn's Hill (The Soul Searchers Mysteries #1)
Blurb: Mackenzie Clair needs a fresh start. The death of her father and a broken relationship rendered her old life unlivable. What...
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Oct 21, 20242 min read
Review of Dark River Inn (Trouble Spirits #1)
Blurb: Inspired by a chilling true story... It’s the day of his ex-wife’s wedding when Dan makes the winding mountain journey to a remote...
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Oct 23, 20232 min read
Halloween Treats!
For those of you who love their ghost stories with more woo than boo, The Paramours trilogy is FREE through to November! New release! For...
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Oct 28, 20221 min read
Review for The Beached Ones
Blurb: He came back, determined to keep his promise. Daniel and his younger brother grew up in an abusive home. Daniel escaped. Now an...
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Oct 17, 20222 min read
Review for Bound to a Vampire
Blurb: Cassandra Montclaire is a three-hundred-and-sixty-year-old vampire living in modern-day New York. Her human life ended three...
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Oct 3, 20222 min read
Review for Oscar, The Apprehensive Apparition #oscarghost
It’s a pleasure to welcome Author H. R. Sinclair here today as part of her tour from with MC Book Tours featuring her book, OSCAR, THE...
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Sep 26, 20222 min read
Review for Witch of the Wild Beasts
Blurb: When Evalina is imprisoned for witchcraft, will her supernatural bond with animals be her curse or salvation? In 1854, Evalina...
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Sep 12, 20222 min read
Review for One Night In Wildcat Woods
Blurb: 1989. The woods behind Wyland High School enclose over a century of local lore. When ex best friends Drew and Rayze become lost...
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Aug 15, 20222 min read
Review for Mooncakes
Blurb: A story of love and demons, family and witchcraft. Nova Huang knows more about magic than your average teen witch. She works at...
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Jul 25, 20222 min read
Review for Serenade (The Dark Nocturne #1)
Blurb: St. Paul’s Academy of the Arts isn’t your usual boarding school... When November Huntington is sent away to live with her...
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Jun 20, 20222 min read
Review for The Body at Blackwell Lake
Blurb: She hates her power to detect missing things. When it leads her to a dead woman, can she smoke out a killer before she’s the next...
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May 16, 20222 min read
Review for The Omen of Crows Nest
Blurb: No blood. No body. No murder. That’s what the police found after Penelope spun her bizarre tale. In a hysterical state, she said...
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May 9, 20222 min read
Review for Semi-Charmed
Blurb: She’s infamous. He’s legendary. Together, they’ll be epic…or a complete train wreck. It could go either way, really… Psychic and...
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Mar 28, 20222 min read
Review of The Beginning of the End
Blurb: Daphne Rhodes would tell anyone: being ‘the one’ sucks. At least, she would if there was anyone left to tell. She’s the one who’d...
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Jan 31, 20222 min read
Review of The Ghosts of Marshley Park
Blurb: Jade Roberts is a modern girl with an anger management problem, and nothing makes her more mad than turning up dead. Julian...
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Nov 22, 20212 min read
Sisters of the Pale Claw is Now in Paperback
Too bad we don't have any snow to take a picture in! Three sisters. Seven totems. One chance to save the world. It's taken a lot of work, but SISTERS OF THE PALE CLAW is finally available in paperback. I got my author's proof the other day, and I was so excited. It's a thick tome at 717 pages. Not one I could hold up with one hand and read. It's a two-hand job! It includes all nine novellas of the Totem series and bonus author's notes at the end of each novella. This is the
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7 days ago2 min read
Lucky Day! Free books!
Photo credit: Alexas_Fotos from Pixabay It's second winter here and time to snuggle under a blanket with a good book. I've been good and keeping up with my reading challenge so far this year. Cozy stories have become my favorite way to escape. What have you been reading? I have a few more books to add to your e-reader! May luck and good books forever be in your life. When offered a choice between tedious research or fighting a dragon, the players always choose the dragon. Eve
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Mar 171 min read
Review of The Vampire Knitting Club
Blurb: At a crossroads between a cringe-worthy past (Todd the Toad) and an uncertain future (she's not exactly homeless, but it's close), Lucy Swift travels to Oxford to visit her grandmother. With Gran's undying love to count on and Cardinal Woolsey's, Gran's knitting shop, to keep her busy, Lucy can catch her breath and figure out what she's going to do. Except it turns out that Gran is the undying. Or at least, the undead. But there's a death certificate. And a will, leav
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Mar 162 min read
Review of Spread Me
Blurb: Kinsey has the perfect job as the team lead in a remote research outpost. She loves the solitude, and the way the desert keeps her far away from the temptations teeming out in the civilian world. When her crew discovers a mysterious specimen buried deep in the sand, Kinsey breaks quarantine and brings it into the hab. But the longer it's inside, the more her carefully controlled life begins to unravel. Temptation has found her after all, and it can't be ignored any lo
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Mar 92 min read
Cover Reveal for Tea Leaves, Pages, & Starlight
Blurb: Bethany Hawthorne has never felt like she truly belongs anywhere. So when a regular café customer recognizes what she is—a witch—and tells her there’s a place where she won’t have to hide her magic, Bethany does something she’s never done before. She leaves. Briardell is everything she hoped for: a secluded village filled with warmth, magic, and people who understand what it means to be different. There’s just one small problem. No one has a spare room to rent. No one,
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Mar 41 min read
Review of Ruthless Kingdom
Blurb: Born under a scarlet moon, Avianna Morningstar should have been revered and feared, as the prophecy proclaimed. But Avia is taken to a remote realm where she would be safe from the anarchy festering in the Kingdoms, meanwhile her potential as a sorceress is all but extinguished. A sinfully attractive tracker is tasked with bringing Avia back to a homeland she has never known in hopes of awakening the power that has lain dormant within her. The Kingdoms of Verdae and I
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Mar 22 min read
Celebrating the Characters in TOTEM
While the setting, the myths, and the plot are vital to a good story, it's the characters that are most important to me. If there isn't good characterization, then the tale will hang limply even on other stronger elements. Well-written, relatable characters help draw the reader into the story and create emotional bonds. The point of view (POV) characters must fully engage the reader or they won't fully lose themselves the world you've created. The TOTEM series features the Do
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Feb 233 min read
Celebrating the Settings in TOTEM
Image Credit: Alina Matveycheva on Pexels.com One of my favorite thing about writing and reading is going to places I've never been. TOTEM takes place all across Alaska. It's a gigantic state and most of it is wilderness. It has the highest number of missing persons, but most aren't investigated due to the extreme environment and lack of resources. (California has the highest number of open missing persons cases.) There's a lot of mystery about the US's last wild frontier. An
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Feb 162 min read
Release Day for Sisters of the Pale Claw
Three sisters. Seven totems. One chance to save the world. Saskia, Kinley, and Ametta Dorn are polar bear shifters descended from an ancient bloodline where spirits, humans, and gods once shared the same breath. Together, the sisters run a home renovation business which specializes in the unique needs of supernatural folks. Their work keeps their community safe, hidden, and rooted in a land that remembers them. When Ametta becomes the target for a ruthless shifter hunter, h
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Feb 132 min read
Celebrating TOTEM's Covers
Image credit: tran duy anh from Pexels.com I've changed the covers for the TOTEM books far more than any other books I've written. It's one of those things that I have so many ideas in my head, because so much is happening in the series. While it has driven me bonkers at times, I have learned a lot about Photoshop and what goes into making a cover that will hook a reader's attention. I've always liked urban fantasy and paranormal romance covers with people on them. The dynami
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Feb 93 min read
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