Category: Excerpt

Aish of a Grey Lion: A Storm-Dance Short Story (part 1 of 2)

The sharp scent of pine a stab through her nostrils, Niobe kept her eyes on her target as she wound her way through the trees. Uneven ground lent itself poor to graceful movement, but Niobe had the uncanny knack of keeping her shoulders level even as her feet crept across the fallen logs and moss-covered rocks beneath the underbrush. There, only twenty paces ahead and to the right was the soticheij, the monster that once was a man. Back to her,

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Heart (The Illuminated Heart Book Launch)

Last time, after finding some breathtakingly beautiful photos of Iceland and benefitted from the research skills of a friend, I was able to take the story idea even further from the original “fairy tale with zombies” to “A Christian Icelandic girl goes away with a polar bear to save her family from poverty, screws up and gets the bear into huge trouble, then goes and saves him from a draugur queen.” But, even still, the idea had something huge missing.

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Research (The Illuminated Heart Book Launch)

Last time, the original idea for The Illuminated Heart developed from “a fairy tale with zombies” to “A Christian Icelandic girl goes away with a polar bear to save her family from poverty, screws up and gets the bear into huge trouble, then goes and saves him. Also zombies.” Which is what one might term as “progress”. But I still couldn’t seem to start writing the darn thing. Something was missing, and I didn’t know what it was, only that I

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Idea (The Illuminated Heart Book Launch)

First of all: Yes, you read that title correctly. The Illuminated Heart paperback is officially ready for a launch. In the days leading up to launch day, I will be posting about how this book came into existence. At the end of each of these posts, there will be a video of me reading one and then the next and then the next of the first three chapters, straight from the paperback. Cool, huh? So let’s get into today’s part

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Hidden in Sealskin (the new beginning, part 2)

(Note: the copyright notice and its subsequent showing-to-the door of unfun people in part 1 applies here, too.) Inside, the house was only dimly lit. Adren could make out cracks in the plaster on the walls. “Shoes,” said the man, before he scuttled off. Pider removed his and Adren followed suit, placing hers close to the door, on one end of a line of shoes, at least ten pairs in total. She frowned. “Must be something going on tonight,” Pider

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Erica's Story (WIP title) | The Books of Bílo (WIP title) #1
First draft 29%
Hunter and Prey | White Changeling #3
First draft 100%

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Hidden in Sealskin
The Illuminated Heart
Dreaming of Her and Other Stories
The Kitten Psychologist Tries to Be Patient Through Email
The Tree Remembers
Like Mist Over the Eyes
The Kitten Psychologist Broaches the Topic of Economics
The Kitten Psychologist
Plunged Ashore
The Kitten Psychologist Versus The Kitten's Owners