The simple and rather dull truth was that the original reason why The Seventh Sorcerer (and therefore the entire Magic Crystals series) came about was because I had a Saturday night in which I needed to do something, and nothing but a brailler and about twenty sheets of braille paper to do it with. Within…
ABOUT THE MYSTERIOUS TREASURE OF JERRY LEE THORTON What does a guy do when his best friend starts doing things that are completely out of character? In the case of Luke McAllister, you can’t do anything – until you figure out exactly what it is that is different. The fact that his best friend is…
The funny thing about Dragon Fire is that it didn’t start out as a book on its own. It started out as a subplot in another manuscript. After writing Call, the first book in a planned four book series, and thinking it was market-ready, I began to query it. And no one was interested. All…
Keeper of Reign by Emma Right When I first began writing Keeper of Reign in 2008 it was just a tale I made up for my five kids. They wanted a fun, adventure story, set in a fantastical setting and as a mom, I wanted the story to be more than just a fairy-tale. I…
Life is HARD and it isn’t always fair. And sometimes, life is downright insane! I have experienced many of life’s seemingly insurmountable blows and for many years I struggled and lived a dark, disturbing, depressing, miserable and reckless existence as a result. Eventually, I discovered why I was struggling so much. That is when I…
Where did I get the idea for Lion’s Head Deception? I’m not sure where the ideas for my first three novels came from, but in a recent interview when I was asked about the inspiration for my novel Lion’s Head Deception I was able to answer. The idea came to me watching images of rioting…
The novella Vinland Viking is an epic fantasy-adventure, set at the time of the conversion to Christianity of Iceland and Greenland, about a young Northman who longs to lead the storied life of the pagan Vikings. His opportunity comes with Leif Ericsson’s exploration in North America, but his fortunes change in a way and by…
Susan Louise Peterson is a school psychologist and author who has long been interested in the education of preschool through high school age students. Her inspiration for The Yes Book for Teenagers came from seeing teenagers respond to a ‘yes’ response or answer with an overwhelming feeling that they could do anything and that there…
The original version of DEVOLUTION was written back in the dark ages when people didn’t have personal computers. The novel, then called Pan-Dora Island, was written in the 1970s in a notebook with a pencil, then typed into manuscript form on a manual typewriter. The impetus was intriguing work by anthropologists studying whether o rnot…
Twelve years ago my brother and sister and I met in Dayton, Ohio to bury my father at the extraordinary Woodland Cemetery in our hometown. Five generations of my family are buried there and it was as though ghosts were everywhere. I decided to take a walk through the gardens and walkways. Suddenly I came…
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