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Less than a day to enter! 5 copies available to US residents https://www.goodreads.com/giveaway/sh...

Checkout the trailer for Revenge of the Akuma Clan, book 2 in the award-winning Samurai Awakening series http://youtu.be/VFC-ck2ykL4 out this October from Tuttle Publishing.

Just curious how many times a bow needs to be described in one book... why not just name a particular bow and describe it once?

Spoiler! The first word of the page is "With." =o Or is it? Let's see if things change after this final edit!

Spoiler! The first word of the page is.... 'escape.' That will probably change... Or maybe not!

Editing by hand means I get to doodle in the margins... Print guides make great eyes.

Time's almost up on this month-long giveaway for Samurai Awakening. If you don't have a copy go enter before its too late!

'The more difficult something is, the more effort you put into it, the more of an offering it is.' -Takumi Matsumoto

What do you think of the new Revenge of the Akuma Clan Cover?

"To create their abomination, the okami would need a person of strong body, whose will they would have been able to weaken over a long process of domination."

I did an English project on Dante's Inferno in High School.. This should bring back some painful memories...

"In the forests, we take what we want. We do not give back..."

"At last. We begin."

"In the darkest moments the memories came. The flashes of places and things so ancient as to be nearly incomprehensible as my alien environment."

"It was not until he could name the emotion driving his thoughts that he finally relaxed. It was hope. He might not believe them, but he wanted to."

Hey all! My new short story The Tanner's Daughter is now available free on Goodreads! http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/17...

This is the longest I've ever taken to read any book... ever. Its not that its bad... just put-down-able so far.

Good Luck to everyone who entered the November Goodreads giveaway for Samurai Awakening! Only 18 hours left to enter.

There's another chance at a Signed copy of Samurai Awakening during the month of November! Enter before the 30th!

Psst... There's are two goodreads giveaways for Samurai Awakening! One for Japan, one for the States. Hurry up and go enter!

Samurai Awakening is now shipping from Amazon.com! Over the next three weeks it should be hitting bookstore shelves as well. Grab your copy today and let me know what you think!

It's going to be a while until I get back to writing. I was hitting a groove for my third novel but my laptop is dead and it will be a few weeks until a new one can get here. The dangers of getting a HP and living in the sub-tropics.