A Content Warning

from Pixabay Recently, I've seen a few of these on books. They're usually associated with the same types of warnings on movies and TV. Contains violence, rape, incest, etc. Sometimes, they give a minimum age requirement. Most are in the genres of crime, horror, psychological-based thrillers with gruesome criminal acts. I write mainly in dark …

Equinox, Spring

Or Autumn in the north (or Fall?). The days and nights are equal, the light even with the dark, the seasons calmer, cooler, preparing for the long haul. For us, the heat will be over the next hill, and it's not a very high lump. We'll be hot for much longer than we were cool …

Butterfly, Wanderer

This comes from the conjunction of two things: Thursday Inspiration and the newest story, so I'll reconcile with Fandango as well and show you some of the interior of The Novitiate. Yes, it's a new title. And only a tiny bit of an excerpt. ... The signs and sigils on the circle aligned the groups, …

Trigger Warnings — Two

The general consensus to the question about whether to put a trigger warning on a book seems to be 'No' based on the responses to the last post, which got a lot of comments. But that doesn't mean I can get away with not using the overt design features to warn and advise. Starting from …

Motivation

There's a #6WSP (that's six word story prompt) for the above word for Saturday. Of course, I couldn't do six word stories to save my life. Okay, I'd try, but I need more. Much more. But I liked the word. Writers and words. So much intent behind a simple word. Motivation. What motivates me at …

Liars & Thieves, a Book Launch Blog Tour

https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=8&v=x1uHsuSpOoQ&feature=emb_logo Book Trailer on YouTube Liars & Thieves is Book 1 of Unraveling the Veil. Blurb:Behind the Veil, the hordes gather, eager to savage the world. But Kalann il Drakk, First of Chaos, is untroubled by the shimmering wall that holds his beasts at bay. For if he cannot cleanse the land of life, the …

Aussie Speculative Fiction — Libra

Damascena, Thorn of Lore -- in the Libra edition of the Zodiac series, coming your way soon, soon, soon in September. Yep. You read it right -- 'Damascena, Thorn of Lore' by Cage Dunn

Mid-August, already?

First, the What? An update, short and sweet. The back is not behaving, and much as I try to scroll through the WP feed, I fail to get far. Keeping up, but not regularly. I'm still here, and there will be a return. When? When the back is good enough to park me in the …

Last Chance

for the Smashwords sale, that is. It's the only time I'm putting Diaballein up for a freebie moment, and only in the Smashwords Summer/Winter sale, so if you enjoy suspenseful horror novella stories, take a chance. But don't wait. July is almost over. And with two new novella stories coming out later this year, there …

A Journal of the Plague Year

The city is falling to a disease without discrimination. People are dying. One man finds his brother and decides to get out of the danger zone. They travel the country, staying ahead of the trouble. But the trouble follows them, leaves the dead in their wake. 2020? No, 1665. But it's happened again since then, …