Are you enjoying this ride as much as I am? I hope so! Today I have three goodies to share with you—and there’s still the giveaway, too. Make sure you sign up for that, and don’t forget that digital versions of As the Crow Flies are being awarded to random commenters on the blogs of my wonderful tour hosts. On her blog, Disciples of the Fount, Louise Blankenship interviews Tarsha, the love of Crow’s life. Allow me to give you a peek: So, Tarsha, how did you and Crow meet? I am, as I’m sure you’ve heard, a professional dancer. Crow came […]
Blog Tour: Day 4
Day 4! Can you believe it? We’re right in the middle of the tour, and I have two guest spots. One of the unexpected benefits of this shindig has been all the thinking it’s forced me to do; I don’t often think about why I do what I do beyond the fact that I really enjoy it. Lately I’ve been digging into the juicy meat of things. On Marsha A. Moore’s blog, Illusions of Intimacy, we talk about what inspires me to write fantasy and how the components of the genre affect the characters. Today I will happily read almost […]
Blog Tour Day 3
Day three of the blog tour brings a fine tangle of miscommunication (which is why I’m so late posting this!), but Crow shall prevail! He is, after all, beloved of the gods, right? So, what happened? I thought I sent information to someone, then I couldn’t find any trace of said email, so I sent it again, but I never heard back… Unfortunately, these things happen, even on the best of days. And unfortunately, I don’t have “Easy” or “Do-over” buttons! I hope we’ll be able to reschedule. In the meantime, I have an excerpt for you and, in case you […]
Blog Tour: Day 2
It’s the second day of my tour, and things are hoppin’! It’s such fun chatting with folks who take the time to comment, and I’m not sure there’s anything that can make an author’s day like hearing that her book is “very well written and engaging.” I’m still smiling! Two more fantastic bloggers are featuring me and Crow today. Nastasia and Amber over at ZincUniverse are so warm and funny! And I’ll have to say that they were just as creative with their interviews as Kristie Kiessling and AE Marling were yesterday. I’ve so enjoyed the offbeat questions, like these […]
Blog Tour Kick-off!
It’s the beginning of a new week—a new month!—and I am so excited to be kicking off the official Blog Tour for As the Crow Flies! I want to thank everyone that is participating this tour, helping me celebrate the release of the paperback edition of the book. It means so much to me that you would give your time and space on your blogs to share my book. I’ll be posting links each day for the participating blogs so be sure to check them out. AND… There’s a giveaway during the tour. Don’t miss out! (check below) Getting this show started is my wonderful […]
Rescue Robin
A tale of tragedy, love, growth, freedom… and worms. I got the most unique gift for Mother’s Day this year: an abandoned baby robin. It actually fell out—or was pushed out—of its nest on Saturday. From my living room window I saw this fluttering orange thing and had to take a closer look. “That looks like a bird…” I mused. And sure enough, it was a baby bird, gasping and panting in the sun (and looking a wee bit sun-burned). My gallant husband fetched the extension ladder and bravely leaned it against the upper branches of our gangly pine to […]
Guest Interview: Patricia Reding
Following her dream to study the law, Patricia (Trish to her friends) finally met her goal, then spent the next years trying to juggle husband, children, home and career—and to fit in time for her hobbies like, performing in musical dramas, gardening, cooking, reading, and…. With her oldest having flown the nest and the two younger coming closer to doing so by the day, Trish turned her attention to new endeavors—specifically, to creating new worlds. Oathtaker, Trish’s first published work, began as a challenge, but Trish discovered along the way the joy of storytelling. Currently, Trish is working on Select, […]
Guest Post: Randomness by Nastasia Peters (Plus Excerpt!)
Nastasia Peters is an illustrator and the author of Altors, the first book in the Zinc Trilogy, an epic tale of two friends forcefully separated after their legal guardian is killed. She was born in the Netherlands to a Dutch father (illustrator) and French mother (photographer), and moved to France when she was fourteen. Clearly, creativity runs in her blood. Recently, her drawings have been published in an Adobe MasterClass art book, and she is hard at work on Regius and Seers, the remaining books in the series. ÷÷÷÷÷÷÷÷÷÷ Originally I wanted to write a post about Regius, the second […]
Book Review: Gravity’s Revenge by A.E. Marling
I am so pleased to be taking part of a blog tour for A.E. Marling’s newest book, Gravity’s Revenge. I have been a fan since I first got my hands on the excellent Brood of Bones, the first book set in the Lands of Loam, and look forward with eager anticipation to each new release—and he is a remarkably prolific, chalking up four books in the space of two years. Lucky for us, he keeps getting better and better. If you haven’t yet paid a visit to the Lands of Loam, it’s just a short flight away, and the journey […]
Guest Interview: Omon Hart
Ladies and Jellybeans! We have today an interview with guest author Omon Hart, author of fantasy novel The PureLights of Ohm Totem (Book I of The PureLights Fantasy Series). “Two children from a forgotten land, ancestors of the Island of Ohm Totem, one being of the night walkers and the other of the sacred heart, will purify the energies, bring back the old ways, and unite the PureLights once again, putting an end to the coming Shiver.” ~ Windstorm Prophecy Let’s just jump right into this… Omon, when and why did you begin writing?I began writing when I was a kid. […]