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"Cross-eyed Dragon Troubles" is now out in Trade Paperback! Woot! The day is finally here. Available at…

HI, all!

Just wanted to annouce real quick that "Cross-eyed Dragon Troubles" is now available in Trade Paperback!

Can be purchased at Amazon or for a bigger discount directly from the Publiser at…

I’ve been writing novels for several years, but most of that time, I had to fend off the dreaded rejection letters.

This is nothing new to writers and a part of the process. Then one day, I broke through. When I did finally get to…

Every year I look up to see what the new Chinese zodiac animal will be. Not only do they use the 12 year cycle for the 12 animals, they also add in the five elements, which enlarges the cycle to 60 years. Japan uses the cycle as well, but they actually have the year change with the Roman calendar, while the Chinese new year will actually land sometime in late January to early Feb.

This year landed on the Rat. The element is earth/metal. Hubby is a rat. And the first thing he did when I…

If you haven’t voted yet, it is simple and takes very little time, and I would appreciate it.

Go to this web site: http…

Best-Selling author John Foxjohn teaches an on-line class in January. For more information or to register for the class go to this web site: http://www.elementsofrwa.com/

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I've been a music junkie most of my life, especially focusing on Sountracks/BGM's (Background Music) for movies and Tv shows. Over time I accumulated a decent sized collection of tapes and later CD's. However, probably in the last ten years or more, I've bought less and less and I found it harder and harder to find time or the easy means listen to the music.

For several years at the job, it wasn't a viable option to have a radio or CD player. I used to be in one of those open cubes in…

I am going to give everyone an opportunity to communicate with me and it doesn’t matter where you live, and you can call in and ask me questions, or you can ask on the computer and it won’t cost you a cent.

Friday, …

Fans, friends, family, acquaintances, and even strangers ask me questions all the time. However, over the last couple of years, one question pops up more than any other does.

In fact, a newspaper reporter asked…

I tried to look up a definition of the word subconscious and sadly found the answer to be somewhat lacking. Per The Free Dictionary it means - The part of the mind below the level of conscious perception. Though I suppose the fact that the definition is so vague does somewhat imply how little we truly do know about the subject, but I still had hoped for something a little more concrete. :P

Well, anyway, mine has been a little quirky lately. After quite a spell of no dreams (didn't eve…

Every year it seems like the Christmas holiday marketing push gets started just a little earlier than the one before. But never has it seemed as bad as this year!

I was shocked when two weeks before Halloween, 10/31, I saw Christmas decorating materials at Walmart. Two full Weeks before Halloween! Heck, nothing is supposed to happen until the day after Thanksgiving, right?

Finding the stuff at Walmart was shock enough, but then it got worse. I went Arby's on 11/12 and they wer…

November 15, 2008, Thursday, 8.35 AM PST/10.35 AM CST…

This coming Saturday, November 10, from 11:00-4:00 I am appearing and signing all my novels at “It’s A Grind Coffee House,” in…

Willing Sacrifice

To save the world she must die! Or does she?

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As a writer there are many lessons you learn over time. Aside from things like grammar and following submission rules and a few other things, a lot of the items you have to know about concerning how to write can be somewhat fluid and dependent on the individual. Some revelations just have to come to you, sort to speak.

Though it took me a while, there's one lesson that has proven itself time after time after time. Even so, I stupidly still find myself every once in a while ignoring it…

This week and last week have been...AAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHIIIIIEEEEEEEAAARRRGGGGHHHHHHH!!!!! And that's putting it mildly. :P

But much to my surprise I got pumped back up and relaxed last Friday from probably one of the most surprising things ever. A visit from a Texas Sales/Use Tax Auditor! Yeppers, you heard right!

Stress has been a major meal ticket since I was sick back at the beginning of the month. Came in last Friday feeling beat down, moody, unhappy, lower than low. Brain wa…

Hubby was out sick all last week and I was out three days. Normally, I am the stubborn type and drag myself to work no matter how crappy I feel unless I am in either too much pain or too dizzy to drive. Last week I was neither and yet the virus won.

It was a weird virus. And I did stay home at least one of the days because I flipped between being hot and cold and figured I had a fever (finding the thermometer around here can be like looking for a needle in a haystack) and figured no on…