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Winner of the Flaky Giveaway!

  So, I drew the winner last night, but I didn’t want anyone to know before she did, and I just got her okay this morning to announce that: Sue Gorman is the winner of the snowflake necklace and Amazon gift card. a Rafflecopter giveaway   What? You aren’t Sue? *sighs* I’m so sad for you. But, by now, you’re […]

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OCD and the Med Trade-off

  If you’ve read my other posts, you know that, though I’ve tried most forms of therapy, medication is the only thing that seems to keep the demons at bay. If you think that medication is ever a cop-out or the “easy way,” think again. Medication can be a terrifying road to go down. First, there is the fact that […]

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Why I Write Romance

  More and more I’m raising eyebrows when someone asks, “So, what do you write?” and I say, “I write romance. I’m a romance novelist.” There’s even occasionally awkwardness following this statement–not from me–from them. Some people behave as if I’ve confessed to a much more *cough cough cough* way of making a living. But, you know what? There is […]

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Book Covers and Stealing Time

So, it’s this huge misconception outside the publishing world that authors have control over their book covers. For the most part, that’s a fallacy in my experience. We see our covers slightly ahead of the rest of the world and breathe a sigh of relief that they’re good. (I’ve loved my covers thus far and had no complaints, by the […]

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First 1000 words – Stealing Time

  Stealing Time Hannah Lyons was living a charmed life—she’d escaped death thirty-seven times in the last three hundred and fifty-seven days. But Time was about to catch up to her—Time or, in German, Zeit, was nearly upon her…and about to give Hannah back her scarf which she’d dropped nearly as many times as he’d saved her life. Zeit snapped […]

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YAY! It’s All Flaky! -Contest

So, I have two winter novellas out now, Frosted and Stealing Time. TWO! That’s two more than I had this time last year! We should celebrate. I know, let’s do an awesome giveaway. What should I give away? Well, a gift card, of course…because you guys need money for more books…don’t lie, I know you do. So, boom! Done! A […]

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Father Time’s Son is Stealing Time

      She’s out of time, but he’s holding it back for her. As a son of Father Time, Zeit is required each year to sacrifice one human’s lifetime to the Fates in exchange for changing the fate of others. Last year, he did a bad thing—he substituted a man having a heart attack right next to his chosen […]

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