Hellhounds generally bring up visions of giant mastiffs. Powerful dogs with big slobbering jaws full of teeth, multiple heads, and glowing eyes. They guard the gates of hell, graveyards and the dead. Hearing their howl can be an omen of approaching death. Cerberus of Greek mythology is probably the most famous, but supernatural black dogs […]
Reah is a young girl, broken and cowed by her family. She is conscripted into the military only to receive the same bullying treatment at the hands of her military colleagues. When a horrible prank goes wrong, she finds herself on a hostile planet, enslaved and having to pretend to be a local to avoid […]
Just yesterday I was pondering a blog post over at Musings of Mistress of the Dark Path on how certain marketing firms catapult authors to the top of bestseller lists. All it takes is money. The Wall Street Journal, NYT, and other well known bestseller lists are compiled using data on sales from specific bookselling […]
Well, not literally “on fire”. Although, a fire extinguisher should be handy. Earlier I blogged about a study that revealed women (and to a lesser degree, men) find greater appeal in a fantasy if the story they are reading has descriptive and romantic language. This got me to thinking about all the styles employed by […]
Hot off the presses! Imp the prequel novella to my urban fantasy series is ready to read. Just click on the cover picture to head to Amazon. It’s also available on Smashwords and B&N. It’s about 22k words (70ish pages), and features Az and Dar as adolescent demons, before Az decided to live among the humans and became […]