April reads and thank goodness for magazines!
Thank goodness for magazines!
“Say, what?” I hear you yelling. “You gotta be pulling my leg!” Coming from an addicted-and-proud-of-it-dammit! novel-reader whose...
Lycans and Demons and Lions, OH MY!
Just Googled one of my book titles — as you do when you need to check whether that heinous torrent site had acted on your Takedown Notice request yet (they haven’t, BTW. *insert appropriate expletives*) and found a silver lining in the form of a fantastic review. Just what I needed to buck me up — yahoo!
Why do I need bucking up?
Two reasons. 1) Because I slipped downstairs and twisted my ankle the other evening, and despite icing it and elevating it yadda yadda, the next morning,I...
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