Novel Ideas

Starting 2017 with an offer from a publisher really threw me into a huge, unexpected learning curve. Even though I'd been self-publishing for a few years and fumbling my way through the highs and lows of using Amazon and Smashwords, I was still looking for a more traditional deal. My last book, Live to Tell, was written with the intention of having it traditionally published, but if I hadn't had any luck, it would've ended up on my Smashwords profile. I learned far more going through the

Introducing Perilous, a new historical fantasy novella

Just this month, my novella Perilous was released! It is a historical fantasy story told from the point of view of the angelic spirit trapped inside the Sangreal, also known as the Holy Grail, and gives a new twist on the Arthurian legends of Merlin and Nimue. In the novella, the Sangreal is created in Heaven by Archangel Lucifer and subsequently falls to Earth during the war in Heaven. The Sangreal is left to observe the trials and tribulations of the human race. Yet the involvement of Lucifer

Wilkommen, Herta Tanner

Hi! Welcome to Bavaria, Germany. Herta Tanner inherits a filthy cottage in Bavaria, an entailed estate that goes to the first-born of each generation. What she finds, however, isn’t quite what she expects. “Fraulein, your family's reputation is…” He drew a handkerchief from his pocket and wiped his forehead with it. “The men are vampires and the women are their consorts?” she asked dryly. “Not exactly,” he whispered. “Even in München, in Munich, there are stories about…” “About my family,”

Time Travelers’ Blues

What do you do if you work for an all-powerful company called The Travel Agency that’s in the business of time travel tourism?  You go places.  Lots of places: some good, some bad and some just…weird.  My book, The Blue Horse, follows the adventures of a group of intrepid young time travelers whose job it is to conduct twenty-fourth-century tourists to the past and safely home again. One of the time travelers is Olga, who was recruited from Czarist Russia. She takes a client to the 1964 New