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The Sweet Scent of Blood (Spellcrackers #1) is only 99p on Kindle just now! (UK only). If you've been thinking of trying now's the time! ;-)

#NotSureHowLongFor #Kindle

http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B002VBV1SQ

Happy Solstice. Wishing you all Good Things as the Holly King gives way again to the Oak King and we welcome back the light. (Gorgeous illustrations from here with thanks, )where you can buy them as cards*





*I have no affiliation, just found them on a lucky internet search :-)

The Sweet Scent of Blood (Spellcrackers #1) is only £1.99 at Sainsbury's in their Great Autumn Reads promo!

Or if you prefer Kindle it's the same price here at Amazon UK!

So if you've been thinking of starting the series, now's a good time to give book #1 a try!

Or if you've already read it, then remember it's October and books make for great Hallowe'en treats! And Sainsbury's do eBooks as gifts! *winks* ;-D

Check it out here!

Sainsbury's ebooks can be read on most ebook readers, like Kindle, Sony, Kobo, Nook.
(Sorry, UK only, I think)

I have a fun Spellcrackers 'origin' flash story - SANCTUARY - over at the lovely Between Dreams and Reality!

Plus there's a giveaway (winner's choice of one of my books - Int).

So why not pop over and read/enter!

#BooksMakeGreatGifts

#XmasComingSoon

#Ducks :-D

444 people want to read The Hidden Rune of Iron (Thank you, you are all AWESOME!) If another 222 of you add it to your reading lists I'll have 666 AWESOME EVIL READERS! Help me make it so! Go add now! *g*

I've set up a new Newsletter! I might even send one out soon!!! (I know, I'm shocked too ;-)) So why not come and sign up and get all the latest Spellcrackers news first!

And if you're thinking: 'Hey, I signed up before, so maybe that shy little thing, the Spellcrackers Newsletter might now actually drop into my inbox!' - then read on . . .

Sadly, a snafu with my website host* has resulted in some of my subscribers' details being deleted.

So if you signed up before May 2014, and want to continue to get the newsletter, please come and sign up again. (Oh, and don't worry about getting duplicate newsletters, if you're already on the list it will integrate your email addy; it's spiffy like that :-D).

Sign up here!

*They decided not to do newsletters any more and deleted the function - without telling anyone as far as I can find out. *sigh*

One of the super awesome things about creating characters is when super lovely and talented peeps do fabulous character art and then send said fab art as perfect pressies (along with other wonderful goodies :-))

And so here are the gorgeous paintings of Genny and Mad Max created by my lovely and talented friend Che Gilson. (Che writes, too! ;-)) Thank you, Che! See the pics here!

Woot! Sekrit Project, sekrit no longer! *Pops Bubbly* I'm thrilled and honoured and excited to be part of this wonderful anthology, Dead but Not Forgotten Stories from the World of Sookie Stackhouse. It's filled with fab stories by lots of my fav authors - just look at that stellar line-up - and, even more exciting, the stories are all about Charlaine Harris' (one of my writerly heroes!) amazing characters from her FANG-TASTIC Sookie Stackhouse books.

My story is about Luna Garza, werebat, and I was over the moon (sorry, couldn't resist *g*) when I was asked to contribute. I adore the Sookie Stackhouse world ...read more

Happy Book Birthday* to the fab Leigh Evans for The Problem with Promises, #3 in her awesome Mystwalker series.

*US today, and UK on Thurs 27th Feb

I LOVE the first two Mystwalker books, and this one is even hotter (in all ways! *g*). Hedi, Trowbridge, and their friends have to fight hard for themselves and what they want, and they do! And boy does it make for a heart-pounding, exciting tale. But hey, don't take my word for it. If you haven't started this series, get to it! And if you have then you're gonna want to read The Problem with Promises! :-)

Huge congrats, Leigh! *throws confetti*

And if you've read The Trouble with Fate #1, and The Thing with Weres #2, and want a before-read-reminder of the characters and world, then Leigh's done a great one here.

*UK title - The Thing with Wolves

Why not check out Leigh's great posts on The Problem with Promises blog tour here!

One of the things I love about writing is research. It always amazes me where an idea can take you, and what new and interesting (to me, anyway) facts, or not-so-true beliefs are out there. Of course, research, much like casting light upon the darkness*, is a chicken and egg thing – which one comes first?

The other thing about research is it’s an iceberg, or should be anyway. As much as any writer knows (or finds out) about something, only the bare minimum of that knowledge needs to find its way into the story. But enough of that, this isn't a story but myths and truths about the moon - some of which may, or may not, find their way into a story, at some point (probably in the next Spellcrackers book! *teases*) :-D

The Myths and Truths!

The Dark Side of the Moon (when we're not talking about Pink Floyd) - Myth!

Like the Earth, the moon rotates on its own axis, so, like Earth it has days when it’s facing the sun, and nights when it isn’t. But, as each of the moon’s rotations take the same amount of time as it takes to orbit Earth, we on Earth only ever see the nearest to us side of the moon, making it seem as if the far side is dark. Of course, to actually see the far side, we’d have to take a trip into space (which doesn’t happen too often) so all manner of dark things could be going on up there, and we’d never know! :-D

The Man in the Moon - Truth!

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