A Peek at a New Character

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I’m always depressed when a book ends, because those are my friends for however long the book takes to write. Since I spend so many hours with these fictional people, I sometimes see them more than my real friends. And then they’re gone, and we’ll never be together like that again. (Seanan McGuire) The above quote has plenty of truth in …

So What Say You?

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To appreciate the sun, you gotta know what rain is. (J. Cole) Or snow or sleet and hail. Or even the gray winter skies that February can sometimes bring. My daughter once insisted that in Kentucky we have more gray skies than sunny skies in February. She doesn’t like long stretches of no sun. I said I don’t think that’s …

Cover Reveal – River to Redemption

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For an author, one of the highlights of a new book’s journey to publication is seeing the cover that is going to be wrapped around the words of your story. In traditional publishing, the publishers have an art department with talented people who work hard to make those book wrappers as attractive and compelling as possible. That’s because the cover …