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 6 months into the year already. Another 6 months and this year will be gone.

Hopefully this summer will be fair but with the hot days we’ve been having between the rains that may just be a dream. Global Warming has sure messed with Earth’s weather a lot. But I guess we’re stuck with the consequences of our ‘Free Will’ decisions that others have made for all of us.

Now you can get Bone Whisperer, A Playground of Bones in Kindle Vella or Kindle Unlimited.  Or for $2.99 as an ebook. It's also a paperback now.  If you want to check  out  Bone Whisperer Vella Bone or you can get it Here on Amazon.

I've been working on the next Time-Lost book, Emergent. 5 more chapters/episodes and it should be done on Vella. Then I just need to wait the 30 days before I can publish. I want it out by end of August so I can have it at Hootin an Hollarin in September.

I need a sit down with my muse and get more crap done on Vella.  Kindle Vella authors get bonuses for various things. April's bonus was a lot less than March's, However the Zon changed some of the rules in Vella in mid March. So everything is up in the air right now.  And they really don't tell you the criteria for the bonuses, though it does have something to do with the reads as well as the updating and reader participation.

This year I did a new in-person event. It happens again in November. I did okay at the May 4th event. I sold 14 books which I think is good for my first time there. We'll see how it goes in November and maybe I'll do it again next year. I'm still looking for events close to me but when you live in the middle of nowhere Missouri it's hard. Most events happen on the East or West coasts and the cost of travel would be prohibitive. But my dream is to go to JordanCon at least one year as a goer then as a vendor. Gotta have a dream right?!

I'm still doing a contest for Book 5 of Elemental Voice Spirit Talker. I am looking for names of certain characters. The book is in the 'planning' stage, meaning I'm writing the book bible right now and thus doing character names and place names for the book. I need names for the Orro Clan matriarch, her PA, her security chief, and the secondary villain as well as a morally grey assassin. Most of them are vampires except for the secondary villain. 

Should your name(s) be picked, the name of course will be used and you will be mentioned in the author notes. You may also win a signed book or signed bookplate.
I reserve the right to pick more than one group of names or single name so you all have a chance to win.
Comment the name(s) on this blog. When this book is started depends on my muse.

So put your email and the name(s) in a comment. 

My T.L. books(the Ghostwolf series, the Fallborn, and the Time-Lost series) are out on Ingram Spark now. Several AMZ accounts have been closed due to piracy and I don't want mine to be one. That way all my eggs are not in one basket, incase the basket gets snatched(terminated) 

I will keep you posted on that. 

My box set to catch up on books 1-3 of Elemental Voice. It is now out in paperback and hardback : Link

  

 As of right now there are two novellas, a 'companion' series to EV, Deadly Sands and Deadly Flames. Right now I have the ideas for just three novellas, two of which are published as stated, but with my muse being so fickle who knows if more may come. The third novella is started but it is way down the queue right now. Book 5 of EV is slated to at least be started next year though.

You can check out the 4 books and 2 novellas I have out. I have put them back in KU at least for now. Here is the link to these books if you have not already checked them out. UF Books

They are set in a world where psychics consult regularly with the police and vampires live next door. The FMC Sara reads the earth like a medium hears the dead and finds dead bodies for the local sheriff's office in the first book then works with her vampire FBI agent fiance in the later books. There is to be five books in this series.  I may come back to this world and do a new series. Depends on my muse and time. I have soo many books in my writing queue.

I wrote a little drabble backstory of how Sara got her gift. Hope you enjoy it. Link: Drabble

 Have you checked out my website? All my major worlds and books in one place. Well, except for the new world I'm exploring in one of the two other novels I'm working on. Fickle muse. Here is the link to the website: The Rook.  Check it out and tour a world where psychics work regularly with the police and vampires live next door, a world where werewolves hide among us and can manipulate energy(magic), two worlds with dragons, and a world where a Time-Lost tries to stop the past from repeating itself.

These older books are in what I call 'movie style' or pulp. Fast paced and action oriented with little description and a lot of dialog. They are also my first books, full of my inexperience but also full of my creativity. I have left them as is. Sentimentality. The rest of the books will be in the same style.

I'll try to update periodically. But this blog may get dusty. And repetitive.

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