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Always Roll the Map
Posted on April 21, 2021 Leave a Comment
Anyone a fan of maps? Reading them? Making them? I love fantasy book maps. I have a framed copy of the map from The Lord of the Rings on my office wall, right below my flintlock pistol (it’s a model, non-firing) and my two crossed swords (those are quite pointy). Fantasy novels are often set […]
The Unboxing of Destiny
Posted on April 8, 2021 Leave a Comment
The title says it all 🎉🌟 This post is late, but here is the video 📽️ Destiny, first in The Traitors War series, releases Tuesday, April 13th.
Capture the Ponies!
Posted on January 30, 2021 Leave a Comment
Some visitors to this website may not know about my first trilogy, The Flying Ponies, so I thought I would do a quick post. This is the back cover copy for Lift, the first book in the trilogy: For sixteen-year-old Charlotte Flynn, moving into the heart of the Michigan woods with her family is the […]
Book Issues
Posted on July 21, 2019 Leave a Comment
I know I haven’t posted here in quite some time, and I need to do better with that. I’ll fill you in on my issues with the second edition of Lift, the first novel in my Flying Ponies trilogy. I ordered some second editions for an author event that I ended up cancelling out of […]
TILT IS COMING…
Posted on February 15, 2019 Leave a Comment
Hey everyone, I know I haven’t been posting here as much lately. I tend to post more to Instagram and cross-post to my Facebook author page and my Twitter account. But there is big news afoot… Tilt, book two in The Flying Ponies trilogy, is releasing on Saturday, March 2, 2019. I am having a book […]
A New Year Cometh
Posted on December 31, 2018 Leave a Comment
Here we are, on the cusp of a new year. We all have things we didn’t get done in 2018, things we never even got around to doing. Will those go on your 2019 resolutions list? Or did they turn out to be not as important as you thought? I’ve found that making resolutions rarely […]
Round Two Down!
Posted on November 4, 2018 Leave a Comment
I just finished the second edits, the color edits, on Tilt. Next up is taking all the changes and incorporating them into the manuscript. I’m hoping to get Tilt to my editor by the middle of December. This book has been a lot easier to work with than Lift. The story knows where it’s headed, […]
Editing With Color
Posted on October 2, 2018 Leave a Comment
I am now on the second round of edits on Tilt, book two in The Flying Ponies trilogy. This second stage is what I refer to as my “highlighter” round. Each pertinent character and sometimes story line gets assigned a different color highlighter. As I go through the manuscript, I use those colors to mark […]
The Magic of the Carousel
Posted on August 18, 2018 Leave a Comment
The carousel horses in my trilogy, The Flying Ponies, are all based off real-life carousel horses. They are either aboard machines still in operation or in museums, where people can admire them. Some of them are on the carousel at the Grand Rapids Public Museum; their literary equivalents debut in Tilt, book two of the […]
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