USA Today Bestselling Author of Urban Fantasy Romance and Fantasy Romance
This Sunday I’m knee deep in lime green paint and zebra striped wallpaper. Oh yeah, being mom to a preteen girl is an adventure.
“I don’t like this.”
I didn’t either. Drums pounded in my temples to a wanton beat. Around me, the room spun in clockwise circles. Drunken ambition sloshed through me. Yet I hadn’t had a sip of wine.
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I posted this excerpt on the PNRromantics blog Wednesday, but I had serious formatting issues. (I’m not the most tech-savvy person, you know.) So I’m giving it another go on my blog. This is an excerpt from Evermine. I’m editing now, so it will be cleaned and tweaked before submission, which I’m hoping will be in the neighborhood of March first.
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Earthen Realm, Dempsey Colony
Home smelled odd, welcoming in a way the place lacked since my sister moved out with her mate. Instead of old wood and winter, it smelt of warm oven and sugar cookies. My favorite. Wrinkling my nose, I sniffed the air, followed the sultry current from the front door to the rear of the house and the galley-style kitchen. I touched the stovetop. Heat ebbed through the cracked ceramic and thawed my fingers.
Winking flame teased the corner of my eye where candles danced in crystal holders.
“Maddie?” My voice bounced off the walls, absorbed by the pitch-black living room.
Shame churned my gut, but hope was my antacid. Maybe she and Clayton had fought. Maybe she had come home. Maybe she was waiting in her old room, upstairs, across from mine. [Read more…]
This week, I’m blogging at PNRomantics about my current works in progress and plans for the future. There’s also an excerpt from Evermine, if you’re so inclined to give it a read. I’m working through edits on that project now. I’m hoping I’ll have it ready to submit by the first of March. In the meantime, you can check it out here.
I spend a good bit of time on Facebook goofing off with my friends, playing on my Farmville farm, and doing the occasional bit of promo. Since I’m one of those who enjoys playing with graphics and tweaking everything to suit me–I’ve been let down by how little personalization FB allows.
Enter this latest upgrade… Now you have a couple of options. I’ll show you two I use to let people who stumble across my page know who I am and what I do. 😉
Hailey writes about questionable applications of otherwise perfectly good magic, the transformative power of love, the family you choose for yourself, and blowing stuff up. Not necessarily all at once. That could get messy.
