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Lesbian romance author of multiple genres, plays with knives, prefers the darkness, and rolls dice with abandon.
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Engaging IdealismWelcome to the latest installment of the Forward Motion Merry-Go-Round Blog Tour! We’ve gathered several writers from amateur to professional, and we discuss one topic for the month. This month’s theme is the ideal reader. Despite the straight forwardness of the subject matter, I’ve found little to chew on.What is ‘The Ideal Reader’? Am I supposed to define the title? Blather on about the dearth of Ideal Readers? Praise the ones I have? Write a fictional short short about one? I don’t know. That’s the point of such open-ended topics, I guess. Each writer has the freedom to go wherever he or she wants with it. I tend to be a pretty concrete-thinking person, though, so I’m at a loss. Vignette – DorstIn honor of the upcoming publication of The Strange Path, Book 1 of the Sanguire, I’m posting a vignette a month leading up to the first chapter of the book. Enjoy this sneak peak into the mind of Sañur Gasum Reynhard Dorst – a secretive man searching for something elusive. He smiled as he strolled along the parkway, casually nodding greeting to the other people who had decided today was a beautiful day for a walk. That his fellow pedestrians smirked or recoiled from his appearance meant nothing to him. No, that was incorrect. He winked ludicrously at a little girl, almost laughing when her mother tugged her sharply away. It’s actually quite entertaining. The Old Year is Behind Us...and it was certainly a busy year for me! I edited and submitted the last two of the Sanguire series, submitted a post-apocalyptic romance, and am nearly finished with rewrites for Lichii Ba’Cho. I’ve gone through the first round of edits on Sanguire 1, The Strange Path for Bella Books and Broken Trails for PD Publishing. Continue Reading… A Leg To Stand OnMany of you may recall from last year that author Nene Adams had a serious infection. It nearly killed her, and she lost her leg to save her life. We were able to raise over $5,000 to help with Nene’s medical costs in an auction. This year, Nene needs more help. She’s stronger and healthier, but still can’t enjoy the simple pleasure of walking down the street, strolling through a park, or picking up a gallon of milk at the local market. It’s taken most of that year for her to even be able to make it upstairs to sleep in her own bed. She needs our help again. She needs an artificial leg. Please go to either of the sites below to hear more specifics from Nene. Just a small donation could make the difference. Nene’s blog Nene’s Facebook page Thank you! Still MessyAnd things are still a pain in Redhawk Internetville. Looks like this site is stable, but I’m still have intermittent difficulties with two others. It’s been … entertaining, to say the least. What a Mess!What a harrowing three days it’s been. I think I’ve spent close to twenty hours on clearing the malware from this website and three other subdomains. I hope I never have to do that again! In the event that I do, however, I’ve accumulated a number of very helpful links that I’ve listed below. (Who knows when someone might need them? I certainly didn’t expect it!) FAQ My site was hacked – Since the base site is a WordPress installation (this one), I naturally went to the first place I could think of – WordPress.org. This step-by-step guide was a godsend! How to completely clean your hacked WordPress installation was another good one – not as labor intensive, but it brought up things I hadn’t considered, and made me more aware of what I was doing. (It’s always good to be aware of what you’re doing when your digging into code!) Hardening WordPress gave me a lot to think about, too! I’ve since made some changes to keep this from happening again! When all was said and done, Google’s Webmaster Tools got me off the malware warning list. (I’m not too pleased that I was railroaded into it. There doesn’t appear to be any other way for a webmaster to request a review of their site after such a warning without signing up for Google’s set up.) I’m still not completely done—I have a MySQL database I’m struggling to recover, a Mediawiki database to connect to a subdomain, and it appears that my entire blog site has become a mass of bizarre symbols that have taken over apostrophes, dashes, and quotation marks… Bear with me, and thanks for your patience! Vignette – NijmegeIn honor of the upcoming publication of The Strange Path, Book 1 of the Sanguire, I’m posting a vignette a month leading up to the first chapter of the book. Enjoy this sneak peak into the mind of Sañar Bertrada Nijmege – member of the European Sanguire high council, the Agrun Nam.
Note: All vignettes will be posted in the Online Reading section of this blog. Feel free to visit any time! She wasn’t the first to arrive at the restaurant. As Bertrada Nijmege was ushered into a private dining area, she saw two of her colleagues already seated. Samuel McCall and Aiden Cassidie rose at her approach and remained standing until she was seated by their maitre’ d. “Bertrada.” Cassidie raised a glass of wine. “Try the merlot. It has a unique fragrance.” Continue Reading… A Self Interview It’s that time of month again – the Forward Motion Merry-Go-Round Blog Tour! Yay! This month’s topic is a self-interview. I hate interviews, so I hope I’ll be gentle with myself. What do you think? Q Can you tell us something about what you’re working on? As a matter of fact, I can! (Funny how that turns out, huh?) Continue Reading… Vignette – CastilloIn honor of the upcoming publication of The Strange Path, Book 1 of the Sanguire, I’m posting a vignette a month leading up to the first chapter of the book. Enjoy this sneak peak into the mind of Father James Castillo – the Sanguire whistle-blower. Excerpt – Orphan MakerThe last couple of weeks I’ve been working on an old manuscript that’s been sitting around on my computer for three or four years. Starting to get into the groove, and thought you folks might want to have a look. Continue Reading… I Got Your Revision RIGHT Here!It’s interesting that this month’s Merry-Go-Round Blog Tour topic is about revisions. I just finished a monster revision / writing project in August. Excellent timing! Back in 2005 I wrote a novel called Broken Trails about two women who come together during the Last Great Race – the Iditarod sled dog race in Alaska. (Actually, the novel was untitled and remained so until about a year ago.) I love the Iditarod, and read everything I could get my hands on about it. Others enjoyed the online version, and I received a great deal of praising emails. But not from everybody. A Simple Equation  Yeah, that’s my chin. Barely tapped it on the asphalt, but the black half-circle ain’t dirt. This is what my second childhood is going to be like. Hope my wife survives. A New Find!In all the hubbub regarding Facebook’s changes, I’ve been fiddling around with Google+. Good thing I did! One of the first things I discovered was this:
Then There Were TwoAnother maudlin indulgence ahead. You’ve been warned. If waxing philosophic about a stranger’s deceased pet is not your cup of tea, skip to another page of this blog or move along.  Sunday morning I climbed out of bed both hopeful and terrified. Seeing Lester, our nine-year-old gray tabby, huddled on the floor killed that hope. While the world mourned the tenth anniversary of 9/11, my grief was sharper and closer to home. Continue Reading… This Idea is Ooooooold…The Sanguire trilogy is written! YAY! Broken Trails should be out by the end of the year! YAY! My vacation starts today – fifteen days of pure nothing to do but putter around the house and cuddle my wife! YAY! Now what?
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