Tag: The Devils Garden
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A book by its cover
Go ahead, judge The Devil’s Garden: I am head over heels over this cover designed by Frauke at www.crocodesigns.com. I already knew Carina had a knack for getting their covers right. It was actually one of the reasons I put them at the top of my list when submitting my novella, because speaking for myself,…
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Of plum blossoms and body ink
Several years ago when I finished writing my first novel I started a tradition: each time I finished a book, I would get a tattoo. The first tattoo was my blue moon. This was for my novel Blood Maiden, and represents a carving on a dagger that one of the characters carried (though hers had…
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Second star on the right
Most of my readers are aware of my ill-fated publishing journey earlier this year with my novella The Devil’s Garden. TDG had been eagerly acquired and edits were under way, when Ume and Cree suddenly found themselves floundering in open water. (And Ume was seriously displeased at the damage to her finery.) I am happy…
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Things are coming…wait, look over there!
There are two things of goodness coming, neither of which I’m able to fully divulge yet. But I can partially divulge them, and partially divulge I shall. I hope to be able to post the full details in the next week or two, but in the meantime, I’ve uploaded a new batch of images to the…
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Independence Day: Stranger than fiction
This website was launched in April of this year to announce my first published work. At that time, my novella The Devil’s Garden had just been accepted by The E-Book Publisher Who Shall Not Be Named (TEBPWSNBN). Five days ago, my editor at TEBPWSNBN had a sudden realization that the publisher had a strict policy…
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Mary, Mary, quite contrary
I spent the day gardening, both inside and out. First, I finally got my new website and blog together, and up and running after sitting on my domain for two years. You’re looking at it. (There are still a few things to add, like my blogroll and Twitter feed, and various other knick-knacks, but the…