First impressions are lasting impressions?

The Kinshield Legacy was featured on author Richard Jackson's blog today as a First Impression. Check it out! Thanks, Richard, for the kind words!

The final hours are upon us

The Goodreads giveaway of The Kinshield Legacy in hardcover is due to end at midnight PST! The giveaway is free to enter. Just hit up Goodreads.com and enter to win!

Kindle giveaway blog tour

Author Scott Nicholson is doing a blog tour Sept-Nov 2010, in which he and Amazon are giving away a Kindle DX and a Kindle 3. In addition, Scott is compiling a list of ebooks to give away to one of his Twitter followers. The Kinshield Legacy will be one of those ebooks. Check it out! It looks very cool.

Cover blurb... check!

Thanks to my writer friends at the Critique Circle and the Kindleboards, I've got a great working cover blurb for Venom. I've started compiling a list of review bloggers to contact about getting pre-release reviews. Not ready to actually write to them yet, but when the time is right, I'll know who to contact.

The Venom of Vipers cover art

I found an artist to work with on the cover art for Venom. She's quite talented with photomanipulation and digital painting, and I'm confident she can make a beautiful cover for the book. I'm really excited! Check out some of her work: http://miss-ninja.deviantart.com/gallery/#/d23rzu6 and http://miss-ninja.deviantart.com/gallery/#/d1xmf6v Guess I'd better finish writing the story. heh.

Sole Sacrifice - new cover

Author and artist Ronnell D. Porter created a most excellent cover for my novella. I think it perfectly captures the essence of the story!

Sole Sacrifice

A short story I wrote several years ago is available in various ebook formats at Amazon.com and  Smashwords.com. This is a tragic story of how a character in my novel The Kinshield Legacy becomes who he is.

Using Amazon DTP or Smashwords to publish ebooks is easy (and free). It's a great way to introduce people to my writing without having to put together an anthology.

Spalding's Racket

My book's being featured at Spalding's Racket. Woot!

Free hardcover copy available

I've posted a Giveaway at Goodreads.com -- register at Goodreads and enter the giveaway before August 31, 2010 to get an autographed copy of The Kinshield Legacy in hardcover. It'll make a great gift for that fantasy-loving, Kindle-eschewing friend or family member!

Author interviews

Check out J.E. Johnson's blog where she's doing "drive thru" author interviews. Pretty neat stuff!

The Kinshield Legacy now on the Kindle!

My now-ex-publisher was kind enough to let Amazon know that I hold all publishing rights to my book now. Amazon picked up where it left off getting my book ready for the Kindle. The Kinshield Legacy is now available to download for $2.99. Although it just became available today (and the behind-the-scenes processing isn't quite finished), I've already got a sale! Of course, that might have been my mom... ;)

Now available as an eBook

My novel, The Kinshield Legacy, is now available as an eBook in several formats. Read the first half for free at https://www.smashwords.com/books/view/18996 and decide if you want to pay $2.99 to read the rest. And if you buy during July 2010, it's just $1.50!

Kindle edition coming soon!

My novel, The Kinshield Legacy, will soon be available for the Kindle! If you're like me, you look for Kindle editions of books before print copies. I'm super excited!

Meanwhile, the second draft of my current novel is coming along well. I plan to have it finished by the end of this year.

A new novel in the works

I've been quiet these last three years, reveling in my new fame and fortune. Or maybe just reveling in the knowledge that I actually did write and publish a novel, even though I'm not rich or famous yet. But in these three years, the brain has been churning away, forming a new story, one whose time has come.

It's a science fiction novel about an engineered human subspecies and their struggle for freedom in a world ruled by humans who are on the brink of extinction from a virus for which the subspecies has the cure -- in their veins. Mwahahahahaha!

Holding it in my hands

The books I ordered for my motorcycle buddies arrived Friday. I eagerly ripped into the box and tossed aside the packaging, and there it was. My book, all shiny and pretty and new. I picked up the top copy and gazed lovingly at it, opened the cover and saw the exerpt, flipped through the pages and saw the story I'd taken so many hours, days, weeks and months to write (and rewrite and rewrite...).

Wow.

It's real.

A beautiful, hard-bound book with a shiny paper cover. And in the box were two stacks of them!

I swooned. Then I giggled. Then I sat down to sign them as requested and realized -- I hadn't practiced signing my pseudonym. Gads. I needed to be careful not to sign my regular name. hee hee!