For those who don’t own it (or who want a copy with the new cover art) The Last Grand Master is on sale now through the release of Book 2 – The Eye and the Arm on April 14, 2015. Also – you can now pre-order The Eye and the Arm from all your favorite places.           DSP Publications: The Last Grand Master Amazon: The Last Grand Master Barnes & Noble: The Last Grand Master ARe OmniLit: The Last Grand Master DSP Publications: The Eye and the Arm Amazon: The Eye and the Arm Are OmniLit: The Eye and the Arm Barnes & Noble: The Eye and the Arm      

  When DSP Publications decided to re-release The Last Grand Master as part of taking the entire Champion of the Gods series, I didn’t think to ask about a new cover, so when Book One was re-released on February 10, 2015, it had the same cover as the first edition. But then I sent in my request for what I wanted in the cover for The Eye and the Arm and to do what I wanted for Book Two, we needed to redesign the cover for Book One to keep the theme consistent.  What you’re about to see is the result. For those who don’t know how getting a cover works, DSP Publications took my input and paired with a cover …

DSP Publications is re-releasing The Last Grand Master today! If you don’t already own it, you  can buy it now: DSP Publications: Amazon: B&N: ARe: In connection with the re-release, DSP Publications is sending me on a virtual book tour and they are giving away a Kindle Voyage to one lucky winner. Click the Rafflecopter link below to enter:  a Rafflecopter giveaway

As many of you know, The Last Grand Master is being re-released this Tuesday, February 10th. I’ve got some tour stops happening and I wanted to let you know that DSP Publications has donated a Kindle Voyage as the prize for my tour.  I’ve got a bunch of stops (perhaps too many?) but they’re spread out pretty well.  You can find the giveaway link on each of the tour stops.  Pre-Order Links: DSP Publications: Amazon: B&N: ARe: TOUR SCHEDULE February 10  Cate Ashwood February 11 Susan Mac Nicol February 12 Tali Spencer February 13 Shira Anthony February 16 M.A. Church February 17  Charlie Cochet February 18 Raine O’Tierney February 19 RJ Scott February 20 Sue Brown February 23 Alicia Nordwell Tour Schedule: February 10 Book featured at Rainy Day Reviews February …

First Love has been released and is now for free download!  This is a short free prequel (or frequel as I call it) to The Last Grand Master. You can get it for free from DSP Publications and OmniLit, the non-romance side of Are or you can download a PDF copy from my site here: Download First Love In something of a quirk, if you want to get it from Amazon, they won’t let us list it for free, so you’ll have to pay .99 cents.  Kindle readers need not worry, however as you can get it in .mobi format from the other two sites.

On Tuesday January 27th, First Love, will be released.  This is a short free prequel (or frequel as I call it) to The Last Grand Master. It is now available for ‘pre-order’, from DSP Publications and from OmniLit, the non-romance side of ARe.  In something of a quirk, if you want to get it from Amazon, they won’t let us list it for free, so you’ll have to pay .99 cents.  Kindle readers need not worry, however as you can get it in .mobi format from the other two sites.

(The title sounds better than, “Another Update”, or “Odds and Ends”, don’t you think?) Time seems to fly buy lately. Maybe it’s because I can’t stop ‘lil q from growing up and getting bigger every day. Or maybe it’s because I’ve been so busy and I have so many deadlines to ‘meet.’ But wow. It’s November.  With Halloween in the rear view mirror  (pictures to follow soon) and the leaves turning (maybe pictures of that, too) it’s time to look ahead – less than 55 shopping/decorating/baking/whatever days til Christmas (sorry, had to toss that in).

Kinda. Sorta. Maybe. Hopefully? So After many months of start and stop, of rewriting while trying to keep the story intact, I’ve finished the rough draft of Book 2 – The Eye And The Arm. Those who’ve followed my blog know I struggled with this. Not because I didn’t have the story set, but because I had to make the story fit within a word limit. I’m having second thoughts now.  Overall, I feel the Champions series is good – dare I say very good, though I know the hubris of saying that.  My issue is I wanted it to be a bit more epic. Nendor has three main continents – Ardus, Laudria & Erd.  My goal was to make each …

I suppose it is somewhat obvious that when world building, one should give the inhabitants something uniquely their own, but it wasn’t to me. Although I like to cook, I’m hardly a foodie.  To me, reading a description of what the characters are eating is boring. Generally I skip over these parts, especially if there isn’t anything unique or important in the description.  Example of important food would be Lambas bread in the Lord of the Rings or Aliantha berries in Stephen Donaldson’s Thomas Covenant Chronicles.  Thus far, Nendor doesn’t boast any such miracle food. Like any other author, I bring to the table what interests me most. I really don’t care what people eat. The fact that characters eat is …

Religion and Culture of Nendor The world was created by the seven gods and goddesses of Nendor. Siblings, they are in order of age: Honorus – Lord of the gods; Lenore – Goddess of the earth; Neldin – Lord of the underworld; Arritisa – Lady of the ocean; Khron – God of war; Seritia – Goddess of love; and Falcron – God of wisdom. Each deity has it’s own temples, clerics, and followers.  Although there is no prohibition against following more than one, most people choose a specific god or goddess to primarily worship. Of course prayers are offered to different gods or goddesses depending on the need, no matter who a person follows. The seven gods worked together to …