Out of Genre?

 I'm a writer of fairy tales, legends, myths, so why am I writing something completely different?  That's a great question and one I'm still trying to answer!  I've always found the modern world a little dull and drab and no place for a real story, whereas in the land of faerie, the rules and history and environment are all mutable, but in the real world what you see is pretty much what you get.  But then I remembered that many of the classic books I love are set in the real world, albeit in a time and place foreign to my modern sensibilities, but still they are about realish characters with real world problems in a place and time that actually existed.  Jane Austen wrote about contemporary life!  So how do I make a book interesting set in a world most people call mundane?  Jane Austen managed it, writing with cunning wit about the world she knew, so I should probably write about what I know, at least as a basis, and hopefully with a smidge of the wit with which Miss Austen was blessed, but I can't help but add a little bit of the fairy tales I love too.  Now the problem is classifying the thing.  To me it seems like a mash up between Frank Peretti, a Hallmark movie, and the Greylands, can I really write such a thing as a thriller?  I guess we'll see, I should have the first book out in a few weeks, the second is already started, this could be quite an adventure! 

Update of In Shadow

 The long awaited update of the In Shadow boxset has just been uploaded (I don't know how many times I'll have to wrestle with the smashwords 'meat grinder' which turns my formatting to hash but it is in process and hopefully accepted soon!), but it now contains all extant In Shadow stories, including the cross-over novella with the Tea Books, Of Tea...and Shadows.  I'm sorry if the hyperlinks don't work in some of the epub versions, they work in the word document I upload but somehow in processing they quit working sometimes and I can't figure out why, the book's native table of contents hopefully still works even if the one manufactured by publication process does not (click on any chapter heading and it should get you there!).  I'll keep working on it but it may take a bit! 

New Book!

 Yes, there is a new book available, Shadows Gather, perhaps the final volume of the 'In Shadow' series.  And yes, I'll get the complete volume updated one of these years!  Enjoy!

At your leisure

 Read your favorite L.M. Montgomery book(s) and have the report in by some random Tuesday, I've already got mine done!

Homework returns!

 I don't care if your kids are back in school or not, go read this by Monday, and yes, there will be a quiz.

Black Friday is late?

 Head over to smashwords for their winter sale, find many great deals, including my already ridiculously priced works!

It's political season, deer season, and...

 Perhaps the younger generation will not delight in my reference to the classic Bugs Bunny/Daffy Duck cartoon wherein they dispute with Elmer Fudd whether it is Wabbit Season or Duck Season and whether one should shoot him now or wait til he gets home, but sadly it is a happier tale than recent American political debacles, it should be a debate but where there is no reason the people perisheth and we shan't call it anything of the sort.  But moving on to happier climes, besides for politics of one sort or another and field sports of various kinds, Autumn is also the season of cold days and shortening nights, perfect conditions for literary delights, so turn off the Netflix and pick up a great book, at least therein we can find a little sense, no matter what happens in the wider world!