Finally! It’s only a few short weeks away from the release of Where the Angels Dream. I am so looking forward to the town of Ashwood coming alive for all of you. From the Bottoms to Winding Street, from Mrs. O’Toole’s to the Ascher family cemetery, my mind has walked these streets so often and …
Unlike many gas lamp fantasies, my upcoming novel Where the Angels Dream is not set in Victorian London or New York or some other similarly industrious city (or sometimes the fantasy equivalent of them). No, for Ashwood town and the land around it, my inspiration came from places a little closer to home. I grew …
Something old and powerful walks the gas-lit streets of Ashwood town – For decades the Ascher family cemetery had been left to rot and ruin. Still, getting the position as caretaker there had been a boon for Devon Amaris. The job suited him, and it paid well enough that he could bring his younger sister, …
Hip-hip-hurray! The gas lamp fantasy that I have been working on is on its way to my editor. Where the Angels Dream, the first book in my An Affinity for the Dead series, should be coming to you this fall. I plan on sharing the blurb and some interesting tidbits about the story here on …
Happy Halloween! It should come as no surprise to you that when I started my current WIP “Where the Angels Dream” I fell down a LOT of rabbit holes. The story, set sometime in the late 1890s, is about Devon and Sara Amaris, a brother and sister with a strong affinity for the dead. There …
I cannot believe it has been 10 years since I first published Butterscotch & Me! But it has been and it seemed a perfect time to send them back out into the world again. Paperback, 8.5 x 11, these new editions were a lot of fun to put together. I enjoyed going back through all …
The Broken Court is now available for preorder on Amazon and Barnes & Noble! To celebrate, I posted an excerpt below. Of course, if you can’t wait for it to be released on May 30th, or if you just like to be in the know before everyone else (and you like free books) you can …
One story’s ending is just another’s beginning… The Fairy Queen has fallen, doomed with a mortal heart, and the eld woman’s two dearest friends, the Lady of the Glade and the Goblin King, are now wed, whole and happy. But even happy endings come with consequences, and for the eld woman, life has changed irrevocably. …
“Thom sat amidst the frigid beauty, barefooted and without a coat, singing to the wind and laughing at jokes only he could hear.” – excerpt from The Broken Court, Chapter 5 – The Lost Ones Changlings, Kilmeny, Rhys ap Morgan, True Thomas, Tamlin – many a tale has been told about those who were spirited …
You see her in many fairy tales. She is the herb woman who gives the heroine just what she needs to escape her fate. The old woman in the cottage at the edge of a dark wood who advises the hero on which path to take. She is the giver of good advice and the …
Idyll Dreams & Nonsensical Things 