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Dear reader, The behind-the-scenes of publishing is constantly changing. In an effort to keep up and have a stronger foundation to survive the changes, I’ve opened up my own online bookstore. As a small business, I’m a one-woman operation and will strive to offer excellent customer service. As time allows, I’ll be adding more and […]

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Want to win a book magnet? The stacked books are the titles from my Fairy-tale Inheritance Series and the tea bag is stamped with 398.2, the Dewey Decimal number for fairy tales. You can’t easily tell with the white background, but the magnet is shaped around the color portions of the image. I’m using Rafflecopter […]

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A girl meant to be a pawn starts playing her own game. Farrah’s sense of safety is shattered when a river kelpie invades her remote village and kills the hidden prince she was supposed to be protecting. As a member of the secret society created during the Kelpie Wars, Farrah knows she’ll be asked to […]

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Great news for audiobook listeners! The Fairy-tale Inheritance Series is headed your way. These books come alive in this format with all the different voices, accents…just wait till you hear them. Please check with your library to see if they have the audiobooks in their collections. If not, you can make a request using the […]

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There are several ways to read the Fairy-tale Inheritance Series: As a Librarian: Fairy-tale Inheritance Series in order of publication CINDERELLA’S DRESS CINDERELLA’S SHOES CINDERELLA’S LEGACY (novella) (technically, LEGACY published after MIRROR, but let’s keep the Cinderella books together) SNOW WHITE’S MIRROR BEAUTY’S ROSE SLEEPING BEAUTY’S SPINDLE THE LITTLE MERMAID’S VOICE As a Historian: Fairy-tale […]

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If you are scrolling though the blog, you might have seen one of the posts is password protected. This is because it’s the page that The Little Mermaid’s Voice readers end up on after they’ve followed the link to get to the BONUS epilogue. Several of my books have a bonus epilogue, but The Little […]

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The final book in the Fairy-tale Inheritance Series is a little mermaid descendant novel set during 1912 on the Titanic. With the publishing date on the same day the Titanic set sail, April 10, The Little Mermaid’s Voice follows a sea princess who has spent her whole life trying NOT be like her aunt, the […]

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Personal news to share along with some interesting things I’ve learned while researching fairy tales and history! Listen to this: History August 26 this year, the United States marked the 100th anniversary of the 19th amendment which recognized women’s right to vote in America. When writing my book Spindle, I dove into the early suffrage […]

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I learn so many interesting things while I’m researching fairy tales and history! Listen to this: History Fashion often plays a role in all my historical novels. Mentioning a specific hat or style of dress helps pinpoint the era I’m writing in. This week, my mermaid research led me to a blog describing how the […]

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