To give you guys an idea of what I’m talking about, here are the opening paragraphs for both the new and old versions of Quiver. (A caveat: The formatting is probably going to be wonky. For some reason, WordPress doesn’t like me posting in info from other programs, like Word. Ah, well):  NEW VERSION  I never set out to be →

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So there’s a little more than a year to go to the February 2010 release of the first Assassin book (the wait is killing me too!). A lot of people wonder why it takes soooo loooong for books to be published, so I thought I’d share a rough timeline of the major events that have happened since I first got →

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I’ve been meaning to post this for a while now, but I’ve been updating the Web site a bit. One of the things that I’ve done is post the first chapter of the Assassin book online. You can read it here. Warning: The Assassin book is an urban fantasy, and it’s a lot darker and grittier than my Bigtime series. →

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I had a happy new year’s post, but it looks my computer has eaten it. So anyway, hope you guys had a great start to the new year. Mine involved football, napping, and working on Assassin 3, so it was all good. 😎 So it’s also time to write down my annual resolutions and goals for 2009. Here goes: WRITING →

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You know that major good news I teased you guys about earlier this week? Well, I’ve finally gotten the greenlight to announce that … drumroll please … the Assassin series has sold! Huzzah! 😎 My wonderful agent has brokered a three-book deal with Pocket (which is part of Simon & Schuster). The first book is tentatively titled Gin on the →

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