Character Naming Secrets A reader recently asked if I have any character naming secrets, and where I came up with the name of Mairwen Morganthur, the heroine of Overload Flux. I’ll tell you the same thing I told him, but first I must dispel the notion that there any secrets to naming characters. Just as…
The Age of Megafauna The concept for my Ice Age Shifters® paranormal romance series arose from my hobby of reading science articles. “What if,” I said to my muse, “some shifters were born as throwbacks to the earlier, larger versions of species?” My muse liked the idea, and the series was born. And lucky me,…
About Prehistoric Bears (Arctotherium) A Very Big Extinct Bear in South America Ice Age megafauna are the core inspiration for my Ice Age Shifters® paranormal romance series. I’ve mentioned before about how reading an article on excavating the fossil remains of a huge prehistoric bear in South America sparked my muse. What if rare and…
All Ice Age Shifters Books at All Booksellers Last year, I released my new paranormal romance series in Amazon’s Kindle Unlimited program. A lot of readers are in the program, but not all of them. Therefore, I didn’t renew the enrollment. The books are now free of the exclusivity requirement, so I’ve published all the…
More Ice Age Megafauna Illustrations Last week, I showed you the illustrations for the first two books in my Ice Age Shifters series. This week I’ll show you more Ice Age megafauna illustrations for the second two books in the series. As with the whole series, we don’t have living examples or photographs of the…
Ice Age Megafauna Illustrations When I conceived the idea for my Ice Age Shifters® series, I imagined that certain, rare shifters were born as throwbacks to the days when mammals grew big. Really big. Paleontologists dubbed them “megafauna” to signify their size. Not as big as dinosaurs, of course. That’s a different conversation altogether. There…
Heart of a Dire Wolf Is In The Wild! Happy release day to me! Heart of a Dire Wolf is in the wild! I love my new Ice Age Shifters paranormal romance series, and now the third book is here. It debuts today on Amazon, and is free to read in Kindle Unlimited. Read the…
Shift of Destiny Is Here! Happy release day to me! I am seriously having a ball with my new Ice Age Shifters paranormal romance series, and now the second book, Shift of Destiny, is here. It debuts today on Amazon, and is free to read in Kindle Unlimited. Read the first chapter for free. The…
Shifter Mate Magic is Here! I am giddy about my new Ice Age Shifters paranormal romance series, and book 1, Shifter Mate Magic is here! It debuts today on Amazon for an introductory price of 99¢, and is free to read in Kindle Unlimited. The series is about extraordinary shifters for extraordinary challenges. Three more…
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