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Two new covers!

While I haven’t started a new project yet (and I’m getting itchy to do so, believe me!), I’ve been busy doing some behind-the-scenes work from some of my older  books. My goal is to get all this busy work done by the end of the year so I can hit the ground running in 2013 with all-new work.

One thing I’ve been wanting to do for a while was to update the covers to a couple of my books. The ones I had for them were okay, but they didn’t do a good job of 1) catching the reader’s eye and 2) giving potential readers a strong idea of the genre of the book.

So, here are the spankin’-new covers for Heart’s Revenge and The All Nations Team:

Heart's Revenge
Heart’s Revenge (art by Nyul and Yannp at Dreamstime)
The All Nations Team (cover art by TomWang112 at Dreamstime)
The All Nations Team (cover art by TomWang112 at Dreamstime)

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This Past Month: November 2012

I read somewhere yesterday that when it comes to raising kids, “the days are long, but the years are fast.” It’s also true for my life right now, with two kids (5 and almost 8 years old already!), a wife, a full-time job, and my “other job” as a writer slash publisher slash everything else.

This Past Month (image from http://iftodayisyourbirthday.com)

So I wanted to stop at the end of each month and look back. So here’s my first “This Past Month” post, for November 2012.

The Current Novel

First off, it’s been a really good month for getting work done on my current novel, A Lasting Cure for Magic. I keep a spreadsheet of my writing where I track the time of day I wrote, how many words and pages, and what I worked on that day. It’s great to look back on that spreadsheet for each month to see when I was most productive.

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New Audiobook: A Sudden Outbreak of Magic

A Sudden Outbreak of Magic (audio version)

In what will be the first of hopefully many new audio versions of my novels and stories, I’m happy to announce that my all-ages contemporary fantasy novel A Sudden Outbreak of Magic is now an audiobook!

You can find the audiobook at Amazon, Audible, and iTunes.

The novel is narrated by Chicago-based actress Alyson Grauer. She did a fantastic job with all the wild action in the book, as well as giving each character a specific voice. When I first heard how she read Maria Haze’s chapters, for instance, I got chills –she nailed it.

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