I’m doing a Goodreads giveaway of two signed copies of Shades of Circle City! Unfortunately, due to the cost of shipping, this is only open to people in the US and Canada. If you want a print copy of my book and haven’t got one yet, enter the giveaway and see if …
I just read a super-fun romance novel by Alexis Hall called Looking for Group. Get your mind out of the gutter–it’s a World of Warcraft reference! This book might not be everyone’s cup of tea, because large sections of it are written in the format of Guild Chat. For me, …
I’ve had Faerie Blood by Angela Korra’ti on my Kindle app for some time now because I like the author’s blog. I finally got around to starting it last week, and I did nothing else all day but read it–far too late in the night! As soon as I finished …
Quick post today, mostly to mention my email newsletter. I’m sending out to my email subscribers tomorrow. It’s important, and it has an impact on my next book release. If you want to have your voice heard, you need to subscribe to my newsletter now! I’ll be making an announcement …
Today we’re going to talk about diversity in books. Specifically, the OwnVoices movement. Most of us can agree that 2016 has been a year full of turmoil, trouble, and tears. As an historian, I watched the Republican candidate’s campaign with growing horror. I could draw so many parallels to totalitarian regimes …
This December I’ve been looking for ways to help people. I try to do that every December, but this December feels a lot different from the past several Decembers. I’m not really looking forward to 2017. After all, 2016 has been horrible: creative people dying, atrocities being committed, fascists rising …
It’s been so much fun sharing my Christmas food stories with you and reading the food stories of other #Giftmas2016 bloggers. We had a great set of stories for Giftmas. Read them all! I wrote Merry Giftmas, Christmas Roast and Other Traditions, and Christmas Baking and Gingerbread Bloodshed. Rhonda Parrish …
A Guest Post by Rhonda Parrish For me, Christmas has always been about three things–food, family and presents :) In fact, my family celebrates a secular version of Christmas that we call Giftmas. Okay, mostly just I call it that, but I hold out hope that it will catch on …
No one in my immediate family likes turkey much. This wasn’t always the case. As a child, I remember my grandmother making a turkey every year. She made the perfect dressing, too. There was always pumpkin pie at Thanksgiving and Christmas. (I like pumpkin pie so much it is my birthday …
Today marks the beginning of a week-long blog tour I’m participating in. The Giftmas Blog Tour is a bunch of people coming together to raise money for the Edmonton Food Bank in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada. I wanted to start Giftmas off by talking about food banks in general and why I’m …
