Category: Writings
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Hanover Book Expo 2021 Wrap-up
I made it to the Expo yesterday. Though less prepared and more harried than I had wanted to be. I had ordered t-shirts to sell along with my books, but they did not arrive in time, despite the express delivery and promise of being delivered earlier in the week (I still don’t have them). Also,…
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Hanover Book Expo 2021
Coming soon is the Hanover Book Expo. I’m looking forward to attending, meeting fellow authors, and connect with new readers of Shadows Within! I will also be speaking. Date: November 13, 10am-2pm. I’ll see you there!
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Book 2 of The Shadowless Update
I have momentum to finish another round of editing by early next month. This round is focused on the beginning chapters. I had to take a different approach than the initial draft. Nothing was wasted. I’m excited by this new version which not only adds more tension from the start but also puts something that…
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Review of The Company of Death
The most enjoyable novel I’ve read this year. Original, page-turning, fun and scary. The personification of death, skeletal and robed, has lost its horse, scythe, and purpose in Elisa Hansen’s post-apocalyptic world. Death must reach New York in order to set the world right and resume its life-reaping ways. Told with multiple points-of-view characters, the…
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Vampire Haiku: A Quick Bite of Dracula
Inspired by my recent Working Title podcast with poet Hope Whitby and in honor of National Poetry Month, I thought I’d challenge myself to write some haikus this month. But I need focus. What can I base these brief poems on? Vampires, certainly. Hmm. Guess I should start with Dracula. Warmer. Ah-ha! How about a…