Two interviews in as many days? Yes, indeed! I love getting the chance to meet other authors and talk writing with them. I’m very pleased and excited to introduce another new friend from the Superhero Hype! Forums, Steve Sims.

Steve has published his first novel, Marlsbeth, an epic fantasy chock full of adventure and magic. 

H – Hello, Steve. Thank you for talking with me today! Can you tell us a little bit about yourself?

S – I’m a 37 year-old IT professional, and proud father of two girls (4 and 8).

H – What inspired you to write your first book?

S – My inspiration came from a lifelong passion for the arts; concept art is a passion; I’ve always loved comic books (The Avengers/HULK/Batman), and superheroes. I remember watching the Hobbit cartoon back when I was a kid, and I’m a movie buff, so many movies inspired me as well… Lord of the Rings, Narnia, Legend, Dragon’s Lair, Star Wars. My dad was a good storyteller as well.

H – That’s a pretty heady brew. How did you come up with the title?

S – Originally it just came to me… I went deeper as I wanted everything to have substance. Breaking down the root words I would define Marl and Beth and determine it to loosely mean ‘God’s house of fresh soil’.

H – That definitely seems an appropriate name for a land inspired by the likes of Tolkien! What prompted you to write epic-style fantasy over other genres?

S – I would say that my love of poetic words and fantastic stories converged. I just started writing it with no real plan, and it grew from there. I know, really not the way it is done, but I studied and everything blossomed quite organically!

H – That’s one of the beautiful things about writing, it’s very individual and there’s really no “right” way to go about it, in my experience. Tell us about Marlsbeth. What makes it different from all the other fantasy novels out there?

S – To me what really makes Marlsbeth stand out is that it wasn’t written with preconceived notions of what fantasy was or is. I had a movie playing in my head, and it wasn’t based off of one or two writers, as I just let all of my influences converge. I also think it has a classic feel to it! Even though I did my research, I tried to write the story passionately, with a poetic overtone, rather than being overly cerebral.

H – Oh, yes, passion is definitely a must when it comes to writing. Putting your passion on the page is what makes simple words resonate with people. Which of your characters is your favorite?

S – It has to be the main character Banion. Virtuous, passionate, devoted, honorable. The traits of a real hero!

H – Which of your characters would you most/least to invite to dinner, and why?

S – That would most likely have to go to General Geldik of the Dark Armies, a.k.a. Bloodhunter… nuff said!

H – With a nickname like that, I can’t blame you! What motivates you to write?

S – My brain can only hold so much before stuff starts spilling out!

H – Who is your favorite author and what is it that really strikes you about their work?

S – I love the parables of Robert Plant in Led Zeppelin, and the figurative lines of Scott Stapp of Creed. King David wrote some beautiful Psalms.

H – I also love the imagery in many of Creed’s songs. Where do you get your ideas?

S – Most of my ideas are spawned from images, and music is very inspirational. I put the ingredients in my brain, and cook them up! For Marlsbeth I have a whole Excel workbook FULL of the characters (some aren’t even in the book), places, etc.

H – Best to hold on to those characters, you never know when you might decide you want to write about them. What are your current projects?

S – Just the Marlsbeth website http://www.marlsbeth.com content is enough right now! Appendices, and downloads… the facebook page as well. Check it out! I had an amazing professional concept artist out of Norway do the artwork on the website, which is some of the main characters.

H – So, in terms of technical aspects of your work, do you work with an outline, or just write?

S – I just wrote Marlsbeth, but I have started an outline of part 2.

H – What was the hardest part of writing your book?

S – Keeping transitions seamless. Following along on the map… The map is a free download on the website to accompany the book!

H – Transitions do seem to be the bane of many an author. Do you ever experience writer’s block?

S – No, not really. Perhaps shrinking down what I see in my head, but no writers block yet!

H – Do you read reviews of your books? If so, do you pay any attention to them, or let them influence your writing?

S – I’ve just written the one book for now, but yes indeed! It is a little difficult though — the notion of putting a piece of your soul out there for people to examine… but it’s worth the risk! I would let it influence my writing a little I guess, but to change solely to make others happy wouldn’t make any sense.

H – How do you market your work? What avenues have you found to work best for your genre?

S – That is certainly a work in progress, but just talking to people and handing out cards is a good start. You have to have a web presence! Get out in the community too.

H – So, for my final question: Do you have any advice for other writers?

S – See it through! Push yourself toward finishing… It won’t finish itself, so do what you need to do to see it through to the end! 

Steve, thank you so much for taking the time to talk with me today, and I wish you the best of luck in your writing!

As my regular readers will know, I’m a huge fan of comics and superheroes. I find the concept of super-powered heroes and villains to be intriguing, particularly with regard to the struggles of morality that such beings would inevitably encounter. I also tend to prefer seriously flawed characters. It’s probably why I consider the X-Men to be my favorite team (seriously, if you look at their personalities, they’re all messed up in the head!).

 So, knowing my predilection for loving heroes, combined with the distinctly super-heroic undertone of my own Sekhmet’s Light series, I joined the Superhero Hype forum and found several other writers there!

 And so, it was my very great pleasure to sit down with one of my new friends from SHH, Kevin Rau!

H – Hi, Kevin. Can you tell us a little bit about yourself?

K – By day I’m a giant squid under a small corporation’s ship. E.g. The InformSation Technology manager, who does everything from software programming, to web development, to server administration, network administration, and database programming. I’ve been in the computer industry my entire career, only branching out into writing in the last few years.

    My history as to more interesting things lies more with comic books, role-playing games, MMORPGs and reading a great quantity of science fiction and fantasy novels. I’ve been into (non-computer) tabletop gaming and reading for over 30 years. Comics and computer games were a little later. I collected comics very heavily for about 15 years.

    I’m overweight, but weight lift/workout 5-7 days a week. (Love the oh-so-tasty, but unhealthy food.)

    I like cats, but primarily because they are a tiny bit like the large predator cats, such as tigers. I’m very independent and driven - this is part of what drives me to do my own cover art.

H – Well, I know I’ll never be able to deal with an IT department without having that image in my head! *chuckles* What inspired you to write your first book?

K – I completely quit online gaming for a while, and read about 30 books in December 2008. I remember getting irate about so many stories ending. I wanted to know what the characters would get into next. I wanted MORE. I realized the only way that would occur is if I wrote my own series, and in January 2009 I began writing H.E.R.O. - Metamorphosis.

H – I’m sure you’re far from the only writer who’s ever felt that way. How did you come up with the title?

K – I knew I wanted to call the primary organization in my series “H.E.R.O.” and had to come up with an acronym that would work for it. (Thus was born the Homeland Extraordinary Response Organization.) I like being able to tell in an instant that numerous books are part of a series, and thus chose to use that at the beginning of every novel’s title. The second part has to do with the story in that one novel - for that first book, Metamorphosis has to do with the three main characters changing into supers and dealing with those changes.

H – What prompted you to write about superheroes?

K – My history with comic books. I also love superhero movies. I’m not restricting myself to this genre long-term, however. At some point, I’ll start a fantasy series, and will likely go back and forth creating a novel for each. I’m not sure how many H.E.R.O. novels I’ll get out before I hit that point - probably 7-10.

H – That’s a pretty ambitious long-term plan. Do you work with an outline, or just write?

K – Both. I come up with a batch of core plot points that will interweave through the story, as well as a “to-do” list of things that need to come about in various characters’ lives. Then I’ll write out from one sentence to a paragraph for the first 10-15 chapters of a novel. Often, strange things will occur while writing, and the plot takes a wild turn on me, changing everything. I generally work out a rough idea of the forthcoming chapters to work on and use that as a guide after that point.

H – What motivates you to write?

K – As I mentioned above, I want to see what else happens to my characters. A character’s story doesn’t just *end* (unless they die - and even then, things can occur….). I’m interested in finding out what happens as much as everyone else might be. 

H – Where do you get your ideas?

K – Wild binges at the local tavern? Just kidding! Some have come about because of a single keyword/phrase (H.E.R.O. - Dark Research was an example, as was H.E.R.O. - Horde). Others I’ll look around and pick out words and phrases off random things as I drive around (the slave market idea in H.E.R.O. - New Markets happened this way). A few others I knew I wanted to do something to a character, picked one, and forced them through it (such as what happens with Chrome in H.E.R.O. - Rise and Fall).

    Smaller ideas, such as a few random events that occur in Metrocity I’ve used some software I created quite a while back for use in a superhero gaming campaign to do the very same thing. I’ll randomly generate a bunch and pick out an idea that ought to be interesting to work with in the story.

H – That software sounds like it might be a pretty handy thing to try to market as a sideline! What are your current projects?

K – I’m going through my edit phase of H.E.R.O. - Paragon (Book 6). Once I complete my own edits, I’ll hand that off to my editors and begin the 3D work on a few new characters that came up in H.E.R.O. - Paragon. Then I’ll create the cover for it. After that will be the initial idea phase of Book 7 until my editors come back to me with their revisions and suggestions.

H – Writing is rarely easy. With that in mind, what was the hardest part of writing your books?

K – Choosing to write in third or first person. (I prefer first person to give the reader the opportunity to experience things along with the heroes.) Getting past the occasional mental block can be rough. Not that the ideas don’t come to me, rather I’ll come to a crossroads where a decision can make significant changes to both the story and the characters, and having to select one can be a challenge.

H – Which of your characters is your favorite?

K – Oh, wow, that’s a tough one. Diva’s got to be one of my top choices. She’s dumb, but has common sense. (The boneheadedness can be fun to write.) She wants to be liked so much, yet believes she’s never good enough. She’s quick to react and to help people - a hallmark of a good hero. Oh, and she’s flirty.

H – Which of your characters would you most/least to invite to dinner, and why?

K – I’d love to meet and chat with many of my heroes. It’d be a fun party, barring the potential broken furniture from the bricks. Rayna might be one of the neatest, assuming one could get her to make some lifeforms to give away.

    Least … hmm. If you include villains, then I’d not want to invite any of them. Either they are jerks, greedy, wouldn’t mind killing you or making you a mind slave, etc. Of the heroes, probably Watermane - she’s way too serious. She hasn’t had a lot of time in the novels, so that might not have come out yet. Of the heroes who’ve had a little face time, I’d say Psycom. He’s stuck up, and only does things when they benefit him. (He’s good at what he does, and he knows it.) Of the heroes who’ve had a lot of face time, I’d go with Black Tiger. I like the character, but I’m not sure I’d enjoy sitting around talking with him.

H – Sounds like it really would be a heck of a party! Do you ever experience writer’s block?

K – Yes. Normally, only in terms of choosing one of several paths to take with the storyline. There have been a few times where I’ll argue for days or up to a week with myself over the ramifications.

H – I once had a character who refused to work with me to the point I had to stop trying to tell her story entirely, so I can definitely sympathize. Who is your favorite author and what is it that really strikes you about their work?

K – Laurel K. Hamilton is probably my favorite. The thing that probably sticks out to me is the ongoing storyline of her Anita Blake and Merry Gentry series.

H – Do you read reviews of your books? If so, do you pay any attention to them, or let them influence your writing?

K – I haven’t had a great number to compare against, but I do read them. At times I’ll try to pick out issues people are bringing up to work on. Some people become fixated on the way they believe a story ought to occur, and hold it against you if it doesn’t. So these need to be read while expecting a skewed viewpoint.

H – How do you market your work? What avenues have you found to work best for your genre?

K – My website (http://www.kevinrau.com) is one way. The Facebook page I created for my characters is another (http://www.facebook.com/pages/HERO-Superhero-Novels/312142538816826?sk=app_4949752878). Otherwise I put notices of each new book on a few forums. I’m certainly no marketing expert - quite the opposite, I’m fairly bad at that side of writing. I’ve tried advertising via Google and Facebook - both were horrible, expensive failures. I’ve given out promotional copies of my novels, although that has had minimal (if any) success as well.

H – So, before I send you back to tormenting your heroes, do you have any advice for other writers?

K – Find something you enjoy writing about, because for most writers the success is minimal. Study grammar. Get multiple editors to review your work. Use a thesaurus.

    And there you have it! Kevin’s books are available for Kindle via Amazon.com and in paperback both through most major online retailers.

H.E.R.O. – Metamorphosis

H.E.R.O. – New Markets

H.E.R.O. – Rise and Fall

H.E.R.O. – Dark Research

H.E.R.O. – Horde

    I, myself, just picked up Metamorphosis, and am looking forward to delving into the world of H.E.R.O.!

Akhet for Free?!

Yes, it’s true. As a KDP enrolled title, all Amazon Prime members have the option of ‘borrowing’ the book and reading it for free… However, that’s not what this post is actually about!

If, as a Kindle user, you’ve been pondering reading the first book of Sekhmet’s Light, or if you know someone who has, on February 1st, I’m offering Akhet for free! Yes, you can download it for yourself, or gift it to a friend for absolutely no money.

But why would you do this, Heather? Don’t you want to make money?! Well, yes, of course I do… believe me this is not something I’m doing purely out of the goodness of my heart. It’s my hope that when you’ve read the first novel, you’ll be willing to shell out the cash for Peret (book two) and Shomu (book three which will be available in the next couple of months!). So, please, if you’ve been on the fence or you know someone who’d like it, feel free to download it!

Thanks for reading! :D

Score: Four out of Five Stars

This is a well-researched book and you will learn some Egyptian words while reading it. I found this very interesting. 

The main character doesn’t look like me at all so I wasn’t able to imagine myself as her, but the author did a great job of in description.  All I can say is I’m not tall and lean with an angular face and dark hair long enough to brush the waistband of my pants when pulled back in a ponytail.  The research done shows in the work and was very thorough, while the descriptions are clear enough that this should be a graphic novel.  Even though the characters are adults, the way subject matter is handled well and this is safe for early teens. This story might help inspire a new generation of Indiana Jones wannabes.

I’ve been closely following the events surrounding the creation of Amazon’s KDP Select program. Because of my intense curiosity and my desire to embrace new tools and technologies to get my work noticed, I’ve decided to register my first novel, Akhet, for the program. 

What does this mean for you, the reader? Well, it means that in accordance with Amazon’s terms for the program, I’m pulling Akhet down from BN.com and Smashwords, at least until April 10, 2012 (the end of the three month period that Amazon wants).

Peret and Shomu (when it’s published in the next couple months) will still be available through these distributors. 

The hope of this experiment is, of course, that the ability to borrow the book for a month and read it will cause a nice spike in my sales and lead to more success. We shall see.

In the meantime, I appreciate your understanding and hope that you don’t hate me too much! :)

Talaria Press & Emerald City ComiCon

Posting on the Talaria Press page regarding our upcoming ECCC appearance.

 2012. Is it just me or does it seem like time is speeding up? It seems like just yesterday, I was 18 years old and looking to take on the world.

 A lot has changed for me in the almost 20 years between then and now. My mother passed away, I met my husband, and relocated from the deserts of Arizona to the Pacific Northwest. Maybe it’s strange, but by and large, I have very few regrets about my life, and maybe that’s because I’m naïve, but I prefer to think it’s because I accept that even the bad things that happened have made me into the person that I am today… and, for the most part, I’m pretty happy with myself as a person.

 2011 was a pretty big year, both good and bad. I was laid off from my day job, which sucked… but I took it as an opportunity and ran with it. Between looking for jobs and the occasional interview, I wrote and published my second novel and banged out the third which is now in the thick of the rewrite process. I also helped edit my husband’s first novel, formatted said novel for both ebook and print formats, and helped him set up his blog and other social media promotional outlets. I also participated in breaking ground, so to speak, on a new small press with Garth, another fantastic author we know, Ren Cummins, and editor extraordinaire, Quiana Kirkland.

 So how does one follow up a year like 2011? You continue to turn the volume up to 11, that’s how!

 Here’s a sneak preview of what you can expect to see:

• Shomu: Sekhmet’s Light, Book Three
• The Sekhmet’s Light Trilogy Omnibus edition
• The Days Upon the Year (a collection of 5 short stories/novellas set in the Sekhmet’s Light universe to fill in some backstories that were alluded to but not explored in the series)
• The Talaria Press Founder’s Anthology which collects stories from me, Garth, Ren, and even Quiana in a single volume!
• Emerald City ComiCon appearances by me, Garth, and Ren
• And finally, I’m hoping to have time to break ground on a whole NEW series of supernatural thriller novels!

 Cripes, seeing it all spelled out like that, 2012 is going to be even busier than I expected, especially considering that I’m still looking for a new day job. Well, I guess all we can do is rip that volume knob right off and rock on! 

The Scorpion's Lair: One Small Step

thermalscorpion:

It’s with much excitement and exuberance I write this blog post.

I’m a published author.

What does that mean? It’s hard to put into words if you haven’t been there but let me give it a go. Imagine that you’ve just won the lottery, found out you got that promotion you wanted, and met your…

Awaken on CreateSpace estore

For those of you who prefer paperback, but don’t want to wait for amazon, Awaken is available direct from its CreateSpace estore!

Awaken on Smashwords

My husband’s, Garth’s, first novel is now available for all ebook formats through Smashwords.com!

Looking for a good book?

Check out my friend Michael Hicks’ website… you may even score a free copy of one of his books!

Husband. Father. Musician. Writer. Ren Cummins is a man of many talents who has worn a lot of hats in his time. I was fortunate enough to claim a few moments of his time to have him answer some questions for my, and your, elucidation.

And now, without further ado, I give you Ren Cummins!

• In 15 words or less, tell us about your Chronicles of Aesirium series.

Death wears a pretty dress. (Now with 25% more steampunk.)

• Now there’s an interesting image, to be sure. Where did the idea for the storyline come from?

Some most excellent friends of mine and I did a tabletop roleplaying game several years ago, and my wife wanted her character to be kind of like an anime version of Buffy the Vampire Slayer. So we tossed ideas around and came up with teenaged Romany, a little girl who fights the undead. After that game ended, I found I was really missing that character, so my wife told me to suck it up and write her story. So I fleshed it out, changed things around a bit to convert the concept into a lightly steampunk world, added monsters, giant robots, magic, and airships… and the world of Aerthos was born.

The storyline as it rolls out was one that flowed naturally from my fascination with history - not just the events as they happen, but, more curiously in the way in which they are remembered. And, more than just in terms of world or cultural history, our own individual and personal histories are as much dependent upon the actual events as they are our perception of them. I wanted to explore this, so I wrote out the history both as it was as well as how it was known, and even as it was known by multiple cultural segments within the populace. I definitely believe that the most important thing a person can do is learn from the past, but sometimes that can be an extremely difficult thing to do; I kept this idea in mind while the story unfolded itself.

But also, I’ve got a now-ten-year-old daughter, and I wanted to write a story that would inspire her imagination; one that gave her a world and characters she could enjoy reading, with a sense of empowerment involving young characters, and, specifically, a young girl as the protagonist. I wanted my daughter to believe that a little girl could do anything, even save the world.

• As a woman who grew up with role models like Wonder Woman and Princess Leia, I can certainly attest to how important fictional characters can be in a young girl’s life. How did you come up with the idea for the realm of Aethros? What went into your world-building process?

The original concept was more of a standard science fiction world - flying cars, the whole enchilada. But the more I thought about how I wanted the characters to look and act, that just didn’t work. So at some point the idea of a Victorian-esque culture came to mind; I might have been playing a lot of Final Fantasy at the time, or watching Firefly for the hundredth time. I just liked the paradox and juxtaposition of a future past sort of world. Not a utopia, not a distopia, just an…Opia. *chuckle*  Seriously, though, once the Victorian element appeared, I couldn’t imagine the world any other way. But even that - I didn’t want it to be that cut and dried. In playing up the “misremembered history” aspect, I gave them a twist on their own origins, suggesting a beginnings founded in a much higher degree of technology. And from there, I penciled my way back about 4000 years and worked my way forward, developing out a time line with dates and events and civilizations, adding more and more details the further forward I came.

I even played with the idea of scripture and historical referential documentation, much of which found its way into the books in fun and - I hope - interesting ways.

When I was about halfway through the first draft of book one, a friend of mine read some of it and told me it reminded them of Steampunk. I responded, “Steampunk? What’s that?” I’m horribly ashamed to admit this now, truly. But as it turns out, a lot of “steampunk” authors got their start in the genre almost by accident, so I’m okay with that, too.

• I think that the work you put into building the world shows. The world definitely feels like it’s been around for a while and has a certain amount of weight to it. It’s almost inevitable that some aspect of the author winds up in the characters in their stories. Which character would you say is the most like you, and why?

Yikes. Honestly, I’m torn between the one I wish I was, the one I think I am, and the one I’m sure other people think I am. I wish I were Favo, but I’m probably like Cousins, and I figure most people think I’m like Mulligan. Favo, because I believe that much of a person’s success is based upon good timing and a witty retort, and that man just seems to have both in spades. I envy that man his good fortune and the way he manages to make every situation look like it happened exactly as he’d planned for it to be. Cousins, on the other hand, is a young man in search of himself, who tries to talk his way out of (or into) every challenge. I admire the tenacity of a person who can take a set of circumstances and use them to reinvent himself, and, in the end, come out shining. Mulligan is just a furry little combination of wisdom, certitude and grumpiness. I’m usually fine once I’ve had my daily coffee, however.

• If it makes you feel any better, Mulligan is my favorite character. Now that you’re working through the final installment of the series, which character do you believe has the most dramatic evolution during the course of their story arc? (For example, I believe that in the Lord of the Rings movies, Pippin has the most dramatic evolution during the course of the story, going from being a loyal, if slightly dim, young man who looks at the mission as a game to a seasoned warrior who finds the courage to defy Denethor to save Faramir’s life.)

The easy answer would be Rom - - she goes from 11 year old orphan to powerful Sheharid Is’iin, guardian and shepherd of souls. That’s a big deal, and it’s wonderful to watch her evolve. *SPOILER ALERT!* But for me, the truly mighty evolution is of the series’ villain, Artifice. Fallen angel, heartbroken Reaper and resigned assassin… the path of her life is truly a challenging one to write. I am looking forward to seeing people’s reactions to the revelations that occur in book 6. And I can’t say any more than that yet.

• Ooh, I do love a good villain! Speaking of which writer’s block is generally the nemesis of a writer and some create rituals to help activate their creativity and stave the wicked thing off. Do you have any rituals around your writing? A particular place/time that you write? Do you listen to music, etc?

I’ve set up a table and comfortable chair in my “man cave” on the lower floor of my house, and with that I add an iPod with a predesigned “Writing” playlist, a venti white chocolate mocha, and a closed door.

• You have a pretty diverse skill set; husband, father, musician, and now writer. How did you determine that you wanted to be a writer? What made you decide that would be your primary artistic focus?

I’ve always loved telling stories. (I know if you asked my parents, they’ll totally back that up.) But originally, I wanted to be Spiderman, and, when it was clear that was never going to happen, I started looking at alternative choices which still supported the idea of heroic adventures and the wonder and excitement of the sort of physics I think Shaw had in mind when he talked about imagining things that have not been and asking, “Why not?” I got interested in playing and writing music when I got into high school and spent about ten years in studios and on stage…. but everything changed when I first held my daughter. The idea of going on tour for 10 months out of the year, long nights in studios, all the trappings of being a full time musician - they just all felt completely lifeless and empty. I just didn’t want to do anything that would take me away from her. Fast-forward a few years, and then all the stories started flooding back. A lot of them have come from bedtime stories, even - but the central element is just the idea of sharing ideas and imaginings with other people. Writing just encompasses that, for me.

• Yes, children do have a way of changing things, don’t they? Once you’ve wrapped the Chronicles of Aesirium, what’s next?

The Return to Aesirium! No, well, no, not yet. Later, though, yes, I’ve already got a few other books in my head about those characters. But the next books will be a series of contemporary paranormal books - - targeted to an older reader than the current series, and darker. Looking forward to writing some more contemporary dialogue and exploring a bit of modern mythology. Also, I’ve always wanted to write… oh, but that would be spoiling. Bwah hah hah. Mine is an evil laugh.

• You’re such a tease! So, for my final question, I pose this to you: If you could give one piece of advice to someone trying to break into writing, what would you tell them?

Only one? There are a few bits I’d suggest: first, write, write and write some more. Second, get to know other people in the industry - not so they’ll help you, but so you can learn. Third, learn everything you can about the industry - don’t expect your fairy godmother to appear one night and make the world a magical place for you, wherein all your dreams come true: you have to be prepared to work. Last, be ready for rejection. I’ve never heard of a single author who was never rejected at least once: worst case scenario, you have to accept that you may NEVER be discovered, and you may be writing for a small audience…but if you truly love writing, that’s all you’d ever really need.

And there you have it, ladies and gentlemen, Ren Cummins. Writer and friend, I frequently think of him when I read the opening verse of Arthur O’Shaughnessy’s Ode:

We are the music makers,
And we are the dreamers of dreams,
Wandering by lone sea-breakers,
And sitting by desolate streams; —
World-losers and world-forsakers,
On whom the pale moon gleams:
Yet we are the movers and shakers
Of the world for ever, it seems.

The Author's Den

I love finding new places to connect with my readers!

So I was finally able to get the paperback edition of Peret into shape so it’s now up and available for purchase!

Currently, the Kindle edition is live on Amazon, and the Paperback is available through the Createspace store with Amazon picking it up in the next few days. Also, for those of you who love your Nooks, it’s available through BN.com.

Also, for those of you who regret that your kindle edition can’t be inscribed with a personal message like a paperback… well guess what! Now, it can! Both Akhet and Peret are available for service through KindleGraph.com!