Hello! Happy New Year… ish depending on where and what you celebrate. My family will tell you I’m not exactly chatty, which seems to translate … well… here.

So, in a grand effort, I’d like to tell you about the best errand I ran today - to mail a signed copy of Lost Priestess to a reader - THANKS READER!

I slogged uphill both ways in the snow (er… in a lovely heated SUV, but there was snow) to elbow my way through scads of people (or stand quietly in line and wait for the one person in front of me to finish). And obsessively checked and rechecked the addresses (both mine and theirs because that’s the way my brain works - thanks Brain).

But the point is—

What is the point? Ah - yes - I mailed out a signed copy of my latest book.

And that was a good day.

Have I shared this cover with you? I can’t remember. But I’m so in love with it. I actually purchased another cover for this book and then HAD to buy this one instead… it’s like the artist reached inside my brain to get my story….

See for yourself:

I love this cover!

“Black and blood” is the catchphrase for this book…

And those tattoos…!

What do you think?

I think I can’t wait for Dec 6!

I have to say: I love this cover SO MUCH. I saw it and had to have it… and it gave me the perfect way to rebrand my Crowns Peak series, because I did those covers myself and they… well, they were’t the best.

In face, they sucked.

But they were the best I could do at the time, and they served their purpose. Now I can do better.

I hope this beautiful cover will help more people find this series - I want to share Ava’s stories with everyone who is or could become my reader. So - if you already own Creeper, please don’t buy First Mage Hiding…

Unless you really love the cover.

I do.

For those of you who follow the Storytime Blog Hops, we got behind with the craziness of January 2021, or as I like to call it, December 51, 2020. But we’re taking advantage of that to do a special Valentines Day version - love, anti-love, no love…

I haven’t written my story yet, so I don’t know what’s going to happen!

I am currently editing a novel, which is why I’m not writing so many short stories. It’s called The Dragonscale Throne, and I love it, even if I got my antagonist wrong and have large chunks to re-write. It’s got love and hate, complicated families, war and child abuse and justice, dragons and magic.

I can’t wait to share it with y’all. I love it so much!

Maybe that’s why I’m up at 0500 on a Friday morning?

How are you all doing with 2021?

Having just moved my site, I had to go back and fix broken links to all my books on Holly Lisle’s forums … while I was doing that, I reread all my old blurbs and remembered just how fun Creeper was to write. It was my first… second completed novel (and the first shall never see the light of day, though it was great therapy at the time!)

It has magic and slavers and a reluctant heroine, and I thought I knew the ending until I wrote it and kept going.

A good reminder when I’m struggling that I might think I know the ending, but if I can just keep going I can write an even better story.

Have you discovered something similar?