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Time of Grace
A Knight’s Tale on Goodreads!
The Leaving
The Captain and Claire
on Smashwords
Category Archives: News
Some Thoughts on Charlottesville as the Eclipse Approaches
I don’t have anything particularly profound to say about the tragic events in Charlottesville this weekend except to say that my greatest fear after Trump was elected was that there would be blood in the streets. And so it has … Continue reading
Posted in News, Personal
Tagged Austin Kleon, Biden, chaos, Charlottesvile, Game of Thrones, havoc, Heather Heyer, nature, neo-Nazi, solar eclipse, Terry McAuliffe, Trump
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Summer/Winter Sale on Smashwords
It’s nearly the end of June, so I enrolled a few of my books in the annual Smashwords Summer/Winter sale! Although the “winter” part of the name refers to the Southern Hemisphere, it could also refer to summer in San … Continue reading
Here’s a quick link to an upcoming erotica promo that looks interesting–I know that at least two ebooks feature historical erotica, if that’s your thing (and it kind of is mine!). Memorial Day Weekend Erotica/Erotic Romance Deals FREE & $0.99 … Continue reading
Read an Ebook Week 2017
Tomorrow, March 5, brings the start of Read an Ebook Week on ebook platform Smashwords, which is where I started my own self-publishing journey in 2011. According to the site, “This [their catalog] is the hub of the action, where you … Continue reading
Posted in LGBT, News, Self-publishing, Writing
Tagged Califa, connecting the dots, ebooks, Elsie Street, Free, Kobo Plus, LGBT, library, Read an Ebook Week, Rita Toews, self-publishing, Smashwords
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Now that we’re into the second month of the new presidency, I find myself feeling a mixture of emotions. Exhausted, first of all, as the pace of everything has speeded up. Enraged at wretched cabinet picks like DeVos–that’s a given. … Continue reading
I’ve posted before about All Romance eBooks, which I’ve always regarded as a nice little niche market for my work, despite eccentricities like taking $1 off my royalties if they paid me through PayPal, and constant “sales,” not to mention … Continue reading
A Hell of a Year
2016 has been a hell of a year. It feels too soon to do a retrospective, but it’s been the kind of year where I uploaded a picture of a Facebook friend’s beautiful young dog running through some snowy woods … Continue reading
About last night…
Wow. A mixture of feelings here, but one predominates. After watching the increasingly grim CNN election footage for a number of hours and realizing that Hillary Clinton was not going to win, I went on Facebook and wrote, “I personally … Continue reading
Posted in News, Personal
Tagged Bill Maher, cnn, David Fredrickson, donald trump, Facebook, garrison keillor, grief, Hillary Clinton, hope, michael moore, presidential election 2016, spiritual, trauma, traumatic events
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Summer in California: Fire and Fog
It’s what used to be called high summer, but here in San Francisco we are socked in by heavy fog. The pattern of terrible California wildfires also continues. Here is a photo by Mike Blake of an emu running … Continue reading
Posted in News, Personal
Tagged Emu, Fire, Fog, Hillary Clinton, Optimism, presidential election 2016, summer in California, Trump, wildfires
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A Happy Fourth…
I wanted to wish everyone out there in the US a happy Fourth of July! The weather is always chilly and foggy here in San Francisco. At night in our neighborhood, the air is filled with the sound of homemade rockets … Continue reading
Posted in LGBT, News, Personal, San Francisco, Self-publishing, Writing
Tagged Bill Maher, Brexit, clare ashton, connecting the dots, Elsie Street, Fourth of July, Free, Hillary Clinton, Kate Genet, Rainbow Shelf, Shannon Yarbrough, Smashwords Summer/Winter Sale, The Great British Baking Show, The Pull of Yesterday
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Gabriella West 