It’s true: Professor Theodosia Blake, Head Witch of Harmswood Academy in my Nocturne Falls Universe series, was named after my dear friend Deborah Blake. Deborah is a witchy professor in her own right–she’s written multiple books for Llewellyn on the subject. She also penned a fantastic series based around the mythology of the legendary witch Baba Yaga. In fact,…
It’s been too long since I joined forces with my dear friend Joyce Lamb at USA Today’s Happy Ever After. So when she asked a bunch of us to contribute to the HEA Valentine’s Day Feature Post, our subsequent emails led to Joyce saying, “You’ve got a new book coming out? Well, let’s get Down & Dirty!” TODAY (because…
It’s always a blast to find yourself in the local paper. Even more interesting is the perspective. What you see here is a bunch of fun-loving romance writers whooping it up in the Great Outdoors. What I see is the Mikey Mason t-shirt I wore in honor of Mikey making some Grand Proclamation that morning to his Patreon followers…and…
I haven’t had a car for almost two years now. I’m working hard to make this happen, but it’s been a slow process. Tempest helped me set up a site on YouCaring for my Birthday that we called the Birthday Car Fundapalooza, where folks could help pitch in, if they so desired. We made it up to about $1200,…
Today I’m splashing about in the Waterworld Mermaid lagoon, launching our latest discussion topic: What are some things you use to pick yourself up when you’re feeling down? No spoilers–you have to click over to the Mermaid site to find out (and leave comments!). But I’ll give you a small hint: I get by with a little help from…
In honor of today’s release of When Tinker Met Bell, the Princess Alethea line has rolled out two new T-shirts! I call them the “Tinker” and the “Bellamy.” Bet you can’t guess which one is which… Click to get Tinker’s shirt: http://amzn.to/2xBjPFT Click to get Bellamy’s shirt: http://amzn.to/2wPzItq ************************* Want to browse all the Princess Alethea T-Shirt designs? Click…
It seems Patreon was on everyone’s brain the other night. While I was at Orlando Book Festival, a few budding authors asked me how to launch a Patreon campaign–I recommended they first Follow a few established authors already there. It’s good to see what variety of content is being created for Patrons right now…because there are some really talented…
On Saturday, I woke up sad. I’d had a lovely time at the beach with old friends the day before, but for some reason (which I now blame on ragweed) Saturday morning brought with it a weepy sort of melancholy. By Saturday night, my heart was full again. I was reminded what an amazing life I lead. And I…
Friday June 16th 3:00pm – Fantasy Writing – Alethea & Friends 5:00pm – Opening Ceremonies Saturday June 17th 12:00pm – Main Event – Alethea Kontis 1:00pm – From Kickstarter to Patreon: Making Donations Work for You 2:00pm – More Than Ideas, Seeing a Writing Project Through Sunday June 18th 1:00pm – Surprise Q&A *Copies of my books are…
Welcome Hunters to stop #6 of The Young Adult Summer Scavenger Hunt! We hope you’re having a blast so far! You have a lot of stops to make in order to find all the missing words, so just in case you’ve run into Saturday Woodcutter’s pirates along the way here is a link to the rules and map of participating authors. I’m…
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I’ve been waiting for over ten years to finally…
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