At the Closing of the Year

It's time to close out 2022 today, which means a quick glimpse back at accomplishing a few writerly time things, and doing some social media housekeeping. Let's start with the accomplishments, though, eh? Three Left Turns to Nowhere Cover Art by Inkspiral Design. First off, there was Three Left Turns to Nowhere, a trio of …

Ornamental

The tree was decorated with about two-dozen white Christmas ornaments, just simple frosted balls, but hung on the tree with loops of ribbon. — Handmade Holidays If you've been around this blog for a while, then you know every year, we add an ornament or two to our tree as a way to build up …

“Felix Navidad” is now available from Bold Strokes Books!

Well, today's the day. Or, I guess, the first day. If you pre-ordered "Felix Navidad" from the Bold Strokes Books webstore, you should find it in your in-box as of this morning! If you pre-ordered elsewhere, it will be available on the 13th of December, because Bold Strokes Books does this awesome "first of the …

Felix Navidad—Releases Tomorrow at Bold Strokes Books!

There's a line in "Felix Navidad" where Felix grumbles about "stupid time doing its stupid job of moving forward at a fixed rate" and while there are days were I feel that down to my bones, when the clock ticks over tomorrow, I won't be grumbling, I'll be celebrating. "Felix Navidad" will be out there! …

Winter (Re)Reading

I never used to be the sort who waved goodbye to Hallowe'en and immediately turned to thoughts of the winter holidays. I put that down to being in Retail where I had no choice in the matter, and had already been forced to schedule, hire, plan, train and prepare for Christmas Retail (a.k.a. the most …

“Felix Navidad” Cover Reveal and Publisher Pre-order

One of the things about being an author that never, ever gets old for me is seeing the cover art. For my Little Village books especially, I vibrate in anticipation because Inkspiral does such a freaking amazing job on them. I love them. To the point where if I'm struggling, I'll often ask him for …