SPARK Second Edition: Cover Reveal

The journey to this point has been a bit longer than I anticipated. I ran this as a competition through 99designs and was very pleased with the results. One major lesson learned for the next time will be to make the competition “private” so that artists can’t see each other’s…

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Book Review: Eliana-Who-Sees-Us by Amani Jesu

Primary dog Luna had to hold the cover down for me. I accidentally bent the spine of the book. Sorry! For Eliana, life’s big adventures are about to begin. She’s 18 and about to move to Chicago with her boyfriend. It’s Thanksgiving. He doesn’t show up for dinner. Then things…

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Thoughts on Duty

The book is currently free to read via Kindle Unlimited and will be available for free download this weekend. I came across a line that resonated with me in a poem by Anne Angel: Commitment. (Contained in the book pictured to the right.) "It’s knowing your duty and doing your…

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Book Review: Perdido Street Station by China Mieville

Beautifully written. Bas-Lag is a well-crafted, steam punk world full of fantasy science and fantastic species. I would not want to live there.  Mieville put together a wonderful story that is, in his words, “new weird.” This book won a Hugo Award and it was well deserved. I listened to…

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