I’m interviewing M. Gail Grant today, author of YA Fantasy “Magdalena Gottschalk: The Crooked Trail”. Welcome to my blog! When did you know you wanted to be an author? Honestly, ever since I was about the age of twelve. I just didn’t have the confidence to see it through until this past year. It was mostly out of love for […]
Writing The Adventures of Marisol Holmes, I had to do a lot of research, not just into the different species of shifters that would appear in the book, but also on other rather mysterious topics. One of those topics was invisible ink. One of the earliest writers who ever mentioned invisible ink is Aeneas Tacticus, in the fourth century BCE. […]
I’m interviewing Sal Di Leo, author of nonfiction “Did I Ever Thank You, Sister?” today. Welcome to my blog! Author Interview When or why did you decide to write your book? “This was my first and only book. I wasn’t intending on writing a book when I started out, I just wanted to write down what had happened in my […]
I’m interviewing Wanda Kay Knight, author of middle grade fantasy “The Peacock Door” today. Welcome to my blog! When did you know you wanted to be an author? You know that feeling that you had when you were a kid—that feeling that there are a few things that you have to get done during your lifetime or you won’t feel […]
In this week’s post, I’m going to talk to you about one type of shifter species in The Adventures of Marisol Holmes series that we haven’t discussed yet. Spiders. In the books, the mortician / coroner is a spider named Mormont. Spiders are arthropods, meaning they have eight legs. They also have fangs that inject venom. There are at least […]
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As you know, The Adventures of Marisol Holmes features a school of shifters, and one of the shifters who appears in the story is a fox shifter. Foxes are small-to-medium-sized, and “fox” is actually a group name given to twelve distinct species of “vulpes”. On top of that, there are also 25 current or extinct species often called foxes. The […]
I have exciting news to share. Last year, one of my publishers, Patchwork Press, contacted me to write a story for their anthology. I did and now, many months later, the book is up for preorder. Becoming: A Multi-Genre Anthology for Not Quite Adults is an anthology of several new adult stories, including a story I wrote that’s based on […]
Title: My Sophomore Year of Rules Author: Jennifer DiGiovanni Genre: YA Romance Colette Rodriguez hates rules. Just ask her perfect, older, gorgeous, rule-following sister, Jana. But now that Jana’s away at college and Colette’s a sophomore in high school, things are going to change. She’s gotta find a way to get out from under her sister’s shadow. The problem is, […]
The Adventures of Marisol Holmes: A Study in Shifters is completely different from Arthur Conan Doyle’s “A Study in Scarlet”, but the title is based on it. “A Study in Scarlet” was published in 1887 and marks the first appearance of Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson. Since the Marisol Holmes series features a heroine who is the great-great-granddaughter of Sherlock […]
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