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Cat’s Tale for Sale

 

It seemed like it would take forever, but the day is finally here. Cat’s Tale: A Fairy Tale Retold is available for purchase at Carina Press and other fine etailers. I have a few promo posts going up various places. I’ll add links when I can. Other than that, I’d…

Terra Obscura: Part 3

 

Hello, I’m home from the day job and tomorrow I will embark on four fun-filled days at RWA Conference, where I’ll try to pretend writing is my actual profession instead of just the hobby that consumes all my free time.  Anyway, here is the third and final installment of Terra…

Terra Obscura, Part 2

 

The dyehouse is downwind of every other building, but its location does little to diffuse its smell. The building is squat and dark and windowless. Its roof is pierced with chimneys, like arrows sticking out of Saint Sebastian’s chest. The air around it is soaked in the moist, acrid stench…

Nieves

 

I’m sick. Sick and sad and uninspired. Stupid cold. So here’s me cheating on my blogging by posting the start of a story I started a while ago, and mean to finish once I get three or five other Works in Progress out of my head and into my hard…

Excerpt: Ember

 

If you were wondering which fairytale I ripped off and ripped up to write Ember, this excerpt should answer your question.____________________________ I was not surprised when, scarcely nine months after my mother’s death, my father returned from one of his buying trips with a cartload of second-rate silks and a…