I love Christmas. I love the smell of pine trees and fresh baked cookies. I love giving and getting presents. I love traveling to a million places to see family and friends. (Okay – maybe not the traveling so much) Most of all, I love sitting on my couch, snuggled up with a cup of […]
Cyber Monday deals are past, so I figure it is time for Free Kindle Monday. (If that sounded snazzier, I’d trademark it.) In any case, for ONE DAY ONLY (you know it’s serious – it’s in ALL CAPS) you can get your digital copy of Caged FOR FREE! That’s right folks, I said FREE! (Wow, […]
I had the privilege of being interviewed by storyteller, and fellow storytelling teacher with Better Said Than Done, Mary Supley Foxworth. You can read her interview with me here. It’s fun getting to talk about myself. It’s even more fun not having to come up with what to talk about by myself! Mary asked me […]
On this Thanksgiving Day, I thought it would be a nice way to once again give thanks by sharing the acknowledgments section of my book. Here it is. Happy Thanksgiving. Dedication: For my family – Of blood and water Acknowledgments: It takes a village to raise a book. There are really too many people to […]
So far having my urban fantasy novel, Caged, out in the world and open to criticism has been a great thing. I have received 5 reader reviews, so far, and so far they’ve all been good. Not really excited to get my first negative review – but curious. In the meantime, I’m quite happy not […]
Full disclosure, my urban fantasy novel, Caged, and the trilogy it kicks off, The V to Z Trilogy, include both vampires and zombies. It’s not a world filled with the supernatural, just vampires and zombies. So I thought, why not have a V to Z themed movie night? Or a Halloween movie night with Vampires […]
This past weekend I had my very first book signing event for my brand spanking new urban fantasy novel, Caged. The author event was at my Better Said Than Done old standby pub, The Auld Shebeen, in Fairfax, VA. Approximately 50 people came, heard a fabulous speech by me, bought some books with my soon […]
My first novel, Caged, an urban fantasy set in modern day Northern Virginia, is finally published and available for purchase. Like X-Files meets Die Hard. A scientist and the federal agent who is hoping to keep her alive are trapped in a building with a horde of hungry vampires. It wouldn’t be that unusual of […]
Better Said Than Done, the storytelling troupe I run in Northern Virginia, was honored to participate for the fourth year in a row in George Mason University’s Fall for the Book Festival. The festival is a week long celebration of authors, writers, and readers. Better Said Than Done hosted two events during Fall for the […]
As if trying to prepare my first novel, Caged, for publication in October weren’t enough, I’m involved in a heck of a lot of storytelling stuff over the next month. As founder of Better Said Than Done, Virginia’s premiere storytelling troupe, when I use the term storytelling, I mean true, personal stories performed before a […]