Tag: The Devils Garden

  • Release Day: IDOL OF BONE

    Release Day: IDOL OF BONE

    The first third of the story that’s been with me for almost two decades finally releases today! For those who’ve read my novella, The Devil’s Garden, and wondered whatever became of Ume and Cree, here it is at last. :)

  • The Lost Story in The Devil’s Garden

    The Lost Story in The Devil’s Garden

    Those of you who have been with me on this journey from the beginning may remember that my debut novella, The Devil’s Garden, got off to a rocky start. Sold. Unsold. Then sold again, and eventually published in June 2011.

  • Weekend Writing Warriors #1

    As I mentioned last week, I came late to the party and managed to miss out on the entire Six Sentence Sunday phenomenon. But luckily for me, a new weekly blog hop began today for Weekend Writing Warriors. And even better, I get to post eight sentences instead of six. Below is another excerpt from…

  • Wherein I am late to the party, but make you forget

    So today I thought to myself, I’ve been meaning to give that Six Sentence Sunday thing a go. I head off to the land of Google and find the sign-up blog…and the post that says “today is the last Six Sentence Sunday.” Like, ever. Wow, does my timing suck. Ah, well. Here are six sentences…erm,…

  • Drink the Devil’s Garden

    Google Alerts just brought me this awesomeness from Saveur.com – The Devil’s Garden Cocktail: From the article: My favorite cocktail, Devil’s Garden, is not a drink for the faint at heart. At first sip, lime juice and fresh mint refresh the taste buds, but soon the smoky and spicy undertones of chipotle-infused mezcal creep over…

  • Hey, what’s that in my coffee cup?

    I’m guest blogging today on Cup o’ Porn, a site run by M/M erotica authors Marie Sexton and Heidi Cullinan that unabashedly celebrates a woman’s right to enjoy “men, and coffee, and porn, and sex, and wine, and music, and intelligence, and fun, and women, and really hot photos” and “how all that stuff is…

  • Confessions of a Closet Monarchist: Book giveaway

    Join me over on the Carina Press blog today and find out what Richard E. Grant has to do with my secret love of monarchism and foppish drawls. Oh…and comment to win a copy of The Devil’s Garden!

  • Release Day: The Devil’s Garden

    Today, my debut novella The Devil’s Garden is finally, officially in print. This one’s for you, Gwen, and the spark of the divine you gave us for just a brief seventeen summers.

  • Bending gender with L. A. Witt

    Recently, author L.A. Witt and I spoke about our new releases featuring transgender protagonists. L.A.’s latest novel Static is available June 26 from Amber Allure and my debut novella The Devil’s Garden will be available from Carina Press on June 27. Damon Bryce is worried sick when he doesn’t hear from his girlfriend after she…

  • Friday fortune: Fantasy

    Well, this is an appropriate card for a fantasy writer to pull. :) Card of the Day: Seven of Cups, “Fantasy” In the Russian Tarot of St. Petersburg’s Seven of Cups, the central figure is that of a serf observing cups overflowing with a wide array of fantastical objects: what might be imperial jewels; an…