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Enter your guess at what name is in the books’ inscription, and the winner will receive a free box of books and swag! While signing and shipping to fulfill the Backerkit campaign, I ended up signing an extra set of books to the same name. Honestly, one bonus signing is… Continue reading

The Eyes of Mandoral are creeping into the world. The Poet’s Eye and The Prince’s Song have been delivered in ebook form to all campaign backers, and paperback fulfillment is being assembled. (Hardbacks and special editions are in transit to me.) Physical print copies will not be available at retailers… Continue reading

Our new collection of gothic winter tales is out–and sleighing. (Yes, I did that.) But seriously, it hit #1 on Amazon’s horror list at release. Wild storms, the sound of ice skates cutting across an empty pond, and blankets of soft, white, beautiful death. In the dark depths of winter,… Continue reading

Look, I’ve loved Two Steps From Hell for a long time. I don’t bother to peruse their albums before purchasing; I just toss them into my download cart without question. Then I add them to playlists and play them, straight through or on shuffle. So I don’t actually know the… Continue reading

A new anthology is coming! This one is really fun, where “fun” means full of gothic fantasy and dark, wintry chills. It’s the perfect January read — or for my southern hemisphere friends, it’s a great way to cool off during the peak of the summer. (No, really, I wrote… Continue reading

If you pledged for our charity fundraiser, please remember to make your contribution to Doctors Without Borders. If you didn’t pledge, there’s still time to join us! We are so close, but not quite to, our goal of $1,500. Fun fact: Your US dollars can count for more because it’s… Continue reading

Well, at least I made the error in the moral-high-ground direction. Each year I send Christmas cards to all who want one. Last year I opened some purchases to help defray costs but not make a profit, and you can read all about it at this year’s sign-up post. But… Continue reading

Here in the US of A, we have a modern tradition of Black Friday sales and corresponding Black Friday alert emails to fill your inbox. Yeah, we’re doing that here, too. 20% off! That’s right, 20% off nearly the entire web store! Ebooks, paperbacks, hardbacks, stickers, pins, nearly everything! There… Continue reading

Every year, I offer to send Christmas cards to anyone who wants one. It’s been so much fun to send cards all over the world! After the card requests really took off, I started considering how I could manage costs while still making cards available to anyone who wanted one,… Continue reading