Prize peek

This is a little tease. My new novel Venetian Masks releases February 11. To celebrate, I’ll be holding a contest. First prize will be a box full of goodies from Venice and the other places in the book. The value of the goodies is approximately $100, and some of them are difficult or impossible to find in …

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Change and hope

Today’s message is about change and hope. When I was in 5th grade–when dinosaurs roamed the earth–my family moved and I started at a new school. Right at the beginning, some of the kids drew me aside and told me two things. First, I shouldn’t play with a girl named Nancy because she was dirty and …

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Geographical puzzle

My fiction-writing life is much more glamorous than the rest of my life. Yesterday I received the galley proofs for Venetian Masks, and today I spent a couple hours at San Francisco’s Caffe Trieste, reading them over. Which was perfectly appropriate, since a portion of the novel takes place in Trieste, Italy.     But …

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Two new releases in one day!

At some point the other day it finally occurred to me that I have two new releases on February 11. As I’ve mentioned already, my new novel Venetian Masks comes out that day. Here’s the link for preorders: http://www.dreamspinnerpress.com/store/product_info.php?products_id=3568 . In addition, Dreamspinner will be releasing the anthology Snow on the Roof, which contains my short …

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Venetian Masks is Coming Soon

Venetian Masks is now on the Coming Soon page, which means it can be preordered. Here’s a link to the e-book, but it’ll be available in print too. http://www.dreamspinnerpress.com/store/product_info.php?products_id=3568

Blurb and news

Just a few updates for you this evening. I have a release date for Venetian Masks: February 11. Yay! I have a blurb for Venetian Masks too: Jeff Dawkins’s last partner left him with a mortgage he can’t afford and nonrefundable tickets for a month’s vacation in Europe. Despite a reluctance to travel, Jeff decides …

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I love this cover

My next novel is called Venetian Masks. I don’t have an exact release date yet, but it should be some time in February. I’m working on the second round of edits today, in fact. But in the meantime, I wanted to share with you the cover by Shobana Appavu. I’ve been fortunate to have some …

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Little tease

Just a little tease for you today. This is the cover for one of my upcoming releases. Night Shift is a 30,000 word novella. It will come out in March or April. My novel Venetian Masks will release before that. The cover for that book isn’t quite ready yet, but I saw a draft yesterday …

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Pictures from Europe

My next novel, Venetian Masks, will come put this month or next. As the title suggests, a good chunk of the action takes place in Venice. Other central European cities also appear. In preparation for a fun (I hope!) contest I’ll hold when the book is released, I was going through my photos from 2011, when I …

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My WIP

I know I did a The Next Big Thing entry already, talking about my upcoming Venetian Masks. But Tammy Jo tagged me so I’m doing it again, this time for my current WIP. 1) What is the working title of your book? Jelley’s Valley 2)Where did the idea for the book come from? I am …

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