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Well, TA-DA! and all that…
Superheroes! Steampunk! High-stakes adventure! Cool characters fighting implacable enemies for the fate of the world while they’re battling their own demons! If you like any or all of those things in your reading, Archangel: Ascension...
A Real Character
I just put the final (draft) period on the novelization of ARCHANGEL: ASCENSION, Book One of the Winter Chronicles. The book is based on a movie script written by Dave Di Pietro of ReelCoolEntertainment. This...
Found: One Super Villain
Cool news from the producer of the steampunk movie I’m novelizing even as I speak. He has cast the arch-villain for the movie—a true piece of nasty work named Benton Cross. Cross will be played...
This is … How a Cancelled Championship Became a Celebration of Perseverance
So, we drove four hours down to Bakersfield Friday night (November 15) for the Western Bands Association State Marching Band Championships. Our daughter, Amanda, is a member of the Oak Grove High School Marching Band....
A Huge Thank You!
I just wanted to say a heartfelt “huzzah!” in appreciation for everyone who helped make my debut book event at the Phoebe Hearst Museum of Anthropology completely wonderful. You can see from the “featured photo”...
A Taste of Adventure . . . at Sandra’s Book Club
As part of my blog tour, Sandra Lopez posted a teaser for the novel on her blog site. For anyone who wants a taste of the adventure in THE ANTIQUITIES HUNTER, you can find it...
The Grumpy Book Reviewer Reads Gina
Shelving THE ANTIQUITIES HUNTER under “action adventure/thriller,” the Grumpy Book Reviewer (aka, Maria Logan Montgomery) gives Gina Miyoko’s debut a great review. Some not-so-grumpy excerpts: “I thoroughly enjoyed this enthralling mystery, in fact, I was...
Sixteen Things Update
A while back there was this meme-thingie on the Interwebs in which you tagged someone and asked them to tell 16 random things about themselves. I published my list here about four years back, came...