In the Spotlight – Kary Rader

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It’s time for another author feature and this time it’s the fabulous Kary Rader! Kary is an awesome person, fantastic writer and just loads of fun to interact with. How do I know this? Because she’s another one of my fellow authors from Crescent Moon Press and I got to interact with her quite a bit as she geared up today’s release of the Queen of Jastain. Now it’s time to share her new book with you and I think you’ll like it as much as I did!

Kary is a part-time Twitter sage, stay-at-home mother of three, and slave to the characters and worlds inside her head. Always creative, she’s drawn to stories with fantastical worlds and creatures. With a little bit of magic and divine guidance, there isn’t anything that can’t be accomplished with words. It’s the power of words that creates and destroys. Vanquishing evil and injustice while finding eternal love in the process is all in a day’s work. With the help of her critique partners and master cartographer imaginary places come to life.

Let’s find out more about Kary and Queen of Jastain!

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Relics – Update

I’m less than four weeks out from the release of my first book, the Urban Fantasy, Relics. I’m having a blast, getting blog tours and signing events set up. I’m enjoying every step of this magical process! I saw my cover art the other day and I’m over the moon because it’s so gorgeous! Not that I’m biased or anything.

I have live events scheduled as follows:

May 9 – Great Basin College, Pahrump, NV – 6 PM – Reading and Book Signing

May 11 – Book Boutique, Henderson, NV – Noon – 2 PM – Book Signing

May 18 – Barnes & Noble – 1 PM – 4 PM – Book Signing

May 25 – Pahrump Community Library – 11 AM – 1 PM – Book Signing

 

I’ll also be posting my online blog stops when I get them. I’ve booked Bewitching Book Tours and I’ll be making a lot of stops on the tour. I’ll be having an online event with four of the fabulous writers from my publishing house, Crescent Moon Press. I’ll be doing the podcast, MythBehaving, with host Carla Clifton and special guest host, LynDee Walker the first week in May. Yes, that’s the show I usually co-host, but that day they will turn the tables and I will be in the hot seat. I’ll have an actual schedule up in the near future, so be sure to check back! Thanks to everyone who has supported me and helped me make my dream a reality!

The Thulukan Agency

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On Facebook, I started a page for the series, “The Thulukan Chronicles”. It was suggested by my good friend and beta reader, Jennifer, to use a format where the characters speak and allow folks to ask questions of the characters. Intriguing idea, I thought, so now the page is called “The Thulukan Agency”. This page will allow readers of the book, Relics, to engage “directly” with La Fi, Thulu, Reo and the other characters in my book.

Feel free to stop by and ask questions. La Fi was entirely too anxious to get control of that page, if you ask me. She has already posted the advertisement she and Thulu used to contact the Supernatural. She also has a rather cryptic and foreboding poster regarding being Thulukanized and joining Team Thulukan. For the rest of us the poster represents a street team, so feel free to join that as well. I doubt that’s what La Fi had in mind, though.

Relics, Book 1 of The Thulukan Chronicles

Soon, oh so soon, my friends, my first book will be released. I’ve been busily doing all sorts of writerly duties getting ready for the release. Things like arrangling book launch parties and blog tours and working on the book trailer and street team. So much to do and it’s all so terribly exciting!

It’s been pointed out to me several times, but I’m not likely to forget it anyway. “You only have your first book release once.”  As I’ve said before, I’m going to enjoy every little moment of it, too!

Oh sure, sometimes the process is scary or glitchy or worrisome. But all I have to do is remind myself that in only weeks, my book will be out there. I’m actually going to be published!

And by that awesome publisher, Crescent Moon Press. It’s sheer joy to be with CMP. The support from my fellow authors is incredible and the feeling of family runs strong there. The staff is beyond understanding, supportive and caring.  I’m  very lucky and I know it!

So I’m hanging on for a wild ride. The train has left the station and is picking up speed. My book is becoming even more real every day. Soon, oh so soon, my friends!

 

 

In the Spotlight – Rebecca Trogner

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It gives me great pleasure to welcome Rebecca Trogner as today’s featured author. Rebecca’s novel, The Last Keeper’s Daughter, is a fascinating read that keeps you engrossed with every page.

Rebecca lives in the Shenandoah Valley of Virginia, and frequently crosses the Blue Ridge Mountains that were the inspiration for Krieger’s home. She always dreamed of being a writer, but got sidetracked by the day-to-day adventures of life. With the encouragement of her family, she has finished her first novel and is currently writing the next book in The Last Keeper’s Daughter series. Rebecca lives with her husband and son, and a rescue dog named Giblet. Read More

In the Spotlight – LynDee Walker

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LynDee Walker

Fresh from being in the Top Twenty in several Amazon bestseller lists, LynDee Walker has stopped by to tell us about her debut novel, Front Page Fatality, (A Nichelle Clark Headlines in Heels Mystery.) I’ve had the privilege of knowing LynDee for over a year and I’ve gotten to beta read both of her Nichelle Clark novels. It’s been fascinating to watch her dream come true and know that others enjoy her heroine as much as I have.

LynDee grew up in the land of stifling heat and amazing food most people call Texas, and wanted to be Lois Lane pretty much from the time she could say the words “press conference.” An award-winning journalist, she traded cops and deadlines for burp cloths and onesies when her oldest child was born. Writing the Headlines in Heels mysteries gives her the best of both worlds. When not writing or reading, LynDee is usually wrangling children, eating barbecue or enchiladas, or trying to walk off said barbecue and enchiladas. She and her family live in Richmond, Virginia.

Read on to find out more about LynDee and her new book.

 

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