Speaking of Christmas cookies, I have a free short story (a prequel to my steampunk Christmas story, This Winter Heart) that involves cookies. You can download This Winter Night: HERE In the meantime, here’s a peek at This Winter Heart. Eight years ago, Ophelia Leonides’s husband cast her off when he discovered she was not the […]
I love making Christmas cookies. I suppose that’s why they always seem to find their way into so many of my books! I have vampires baking chocolate chip cookies and snickerdoodles, runaways making gingerbread, and steampunk cooks making biscochitos…which, by the way is one cookie that never comes out for me. I know, of course, […]
Oak, the second book in my Celtic Legends series, is my take on the Oak King/Holly King legend. Originally published as The Oak King, this is the story of two demi-gods and the mortal woman who loves them. Here’s the blurb: Twice each year, Aine Murphy ventures into the woods to hold ceremonies to honor […]
Tonight I’ll be posting a couple of excerpts from the first two books in my Celtic Legend series. Both Iron (book one) and Oak (book two) are tied to the Solstices, with much of the action taking place at the winter solstice. Iron tells the story of a human blacksmith who falls in love with […]
I don’t always remember the exact moment an idea for a story first popped into my head, but that’s not the case with Finders Keepers. The fact is, I dreamed the story up–literally dreamed it, I mean. I woke up with the most of the story in my head, especially this scene between Aldo and […]
`Edge of Heaven is the first book in my Angels in the Afterlife series. These m/m (or m/m/m) stories are set in limbo and feature angels who are all just a little bit fallen. 😉 Book two–Angel Mine–is in the works. I hope to release it, and book three, Feels Like Heaven, in 2019. […]
I’m very excited to announce that my futuristic SFR menage story, Finders Keepers, is being re-released and is currently available for pre-order at Amazon. Here’s the blurb and a brief excerpt. Sometimes finding what you want is the easy part. Caleb is a bionic soldier with little-to-no memory of his past. Aldo’s an undercover cop […]
I love writing about food. I didn’t realize how much until I started writing characters who didn’t eat very much–vampires, angels, tree-shifters. You know, the usual. lol! I think that might be why so many of my vampires became obsessed with cookies. But that’s another story. Today I’d like to share an excerpt from In […]
As I mentioned in an earlier post, my original plan for the Children of Night series was to create a sort of cozy mystery series—with vampire PIs. I’ve been trying to write cozy mysteries for years now, and it never works out. This was no different. Which is not to suggest I’m unhappy with the […]
I was thrilled when my publisher announced they were putting In the Dark on sale, just in time for Halloween. Several books in the series take place (at least in part) at this time of year, so it seems especially fitting. However, a few of my vampires harbor a dislike for the holiday. They find […]
In the Dark was definitely one of my favorite books to write. Usually, I know where I’m going when I sit down to write. Not this time. Instead, the characters took over and completely rewrote the story to suit themselves. When I started writing, I thought this was going to be a fairly straight-forward mystery–the […]
Are you a fan of serials? Ever since my first book came out, I’ve had reviewers comment that my books would make great serial reads. Unfortunately, there hasn’t always been a viable market for stories that are released one episode at a time. Now, thanks to Radish Fiction, that seems to be changing. I currently […]
I’ve always been something of a dendrophile—that’s a lover of trees, in case you’re wondering. I come by it honestly. When my parents were building the house in which I grew up, my mother was adamant that as few trees as possible be cut down. In addition, there was a vacant lot next to our […]
I love telling the story of how I first came up with the idea for my book IRON. I was taking part in an online chat when the question was posed: “What’s the most unlikely pairing you can imagine for a hero/heroine?” At the time, I’d been researching wrought iron for a character who had […]
Wouldn’t you know it? It seems that most of my Irish and/or St Patrick’s Day themed stories are currently unavailable as yet another of my publishers gets ready to go out of business. Luckily, however, we still have the Walsh Clan cousins at the Wild Geese Inn–although these stories will be going away too, at […]
January 1, 2001 Julie pulled the string on another party popper. Confetti shot across the living room, accompanied by a faint smell of gunpowder. Marc sighed wearily. “C’mon, Jules. Don’t you think that’s enough now?” “It’s New Year’s Eve,” Julie replied, stubbornly setting off another one. Tangled strings of paper floated lightly to earth, and […]
December 31, 1999 New Year’s Eve Damian leaned against the railing of the second-floor balcony and cast a jaded eye over the crowded ballroom below. The decorations were a tad overdone, in his opinion. Gaudy gold-and-silver Mylar festooned every surface—the bar, the tables, even the walls. The glare all but blinded him. Overhead, a billowing […]
New Year’s Eve, 1981 Try as he might, Conrad could not decide which aspect of tonight’s event was the most aggravating. The lights had been an early contender. They glared blindingly at him from nearly every wall, every surface, every fixture in his house, making him yearn for the past, for those halcyon centuries long […]
I’m not giving them away (although there is a free read related to the series on my blog: http://rhymeswithforeplay.blogspot.com/p/free-reads.html) but two of the books in my Children of Night series are heavily NYE-centric. Now Comes the Night (book three in the series) opens with a flashback to NYE 1969 and also contains a flashback to […]
My second temporary free read is Inked Memories–which also occurs over the Christmas/New Year’s holiday week. Not that my characters paid the holiday much attention, being as they were otherwise occupied. 😉 Head on over to Instafreebie and grab it quick (this giveaway ends January 8). https://www.instafreebie.com/free/eE2l7 Blurb: All Sophie wants is a tattoo […]
Are you ready for a GREAT 2018? I so am. And to get things started right, I’ve got a couple of freebies for you. The first is my story Sea Change, which is a sequel novella to my Oberon series. You can find it on Instafreebie between now and midnight on January 8. https://www.instafreebie.com/free/Ky3Dd Love is […]
Blurb: Nineteenth century Ireland. Blacksmith Gavin O’Malley is a bitter man, with a heart as hard as the iron he forges. He wants his life back—the one that was stolen from him the day his wife died in childbirth—taking their firstborn son with her. When Aislinn Deirbhile, an immortal, shape-shifting fae, arrives on his doorstep, […]
Here’s a snippet from the third book in the Children of Night series, Now Comes the Night. In this scene, vampire Julie hangs out with her human lover and his son. Blurb: You can choose your lover…if only you could choose your family. Twins Julie and Marc Fischer have always been taught one fact: You […]
One of my favorite Christmas cookie scenes can be found in the first book of my Children of Night vampire series, In the Dark… Blurb: When you live forever, a few mistakes are bound to happen. Vampire Conrad Quintano has been around for centuries — long enough to know falling for a human is a […]
It’s kind of surprising how often my heroes bake cookies. But, at Christmas it almost seems inevitable. Here’s Aldo–one of the heroes of my futuristic holiday menage Finders Keepers–baking one of my personal favorites. Blurb: Sometimes finding what you want is the easy part. Caleb is a bionic soldier with little-to-no memory of his past. […]
