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Good morning one and all!
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My writing is what I consider my main art. I do other things, but really, writing is what I focus on the most.
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Back in December, I decided to pick up watercolor painting again. I started off with a really cheap set of dry paints and even cheaper paper. Then I bought myself a bit higher grade paints and a couple of brushes. This week, I kind of broke down and went ahead and got myself some of the really good paper.
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The main difference between the cheap paper and the expensive stuff? How it holds water. If you ever watch a watercolor tutorial on TikTok, YouTube, what have you, the first thing they have you do is wet your paper.
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With the cheap paper and cheap paints, this does nothing but make everything watery. The colors won’t spread. It’s really difficult to do a wet-on-wet technique.
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Still, I’m pleased with some of my recent attempts at painting, even with the cheap paper and paints. Now, this is NEVER going to be more than a hobby with me. I don’t need more than one art that I am trying to be careful with. Watercolors are really happy accidents with color, and not much more.
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I’m nearly at the end of the current novel. May finish it as early as Tuesday morning. Possibly Wednesday, depends on how this final fight goes. I already have the idea for the next short story, which is likely to be really short, as it’s one of those literary things that I do from time to time.
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Once I finish reading the short stories for “Cutter’s Final Cut,” I’ll reread the last of the Alien novels that I wrote, so I can then go ahead and write the last one in that series.
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I’ll finish writing all the books in that series before I start publishing it. I’ll put all four books up for preorder at the same time, so that when you finish book one, there will be a link to book two, and so on.
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I’m kind of excited about publishing a lot more this year. In March, the next Water Witch Mystery comes out (Witch Mirror?). In April, I’m running a cozy mystery story bundle. In May, Custom Dwarven Chocolates comes out. And in June, The Ice Elf & The Fire Elemental (Ice & Fire) comes out, just in time for the Enumclaw Beer Walk.
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Then, it’ll be every other month for the alien series, so August, October, December, and February. But I’ll have another book coming out in November (fingers crossed…) The last of the Ice Elf Series, namely, The Ice Elf & The Great Magical Mistake, which will be right in time for the Enumclaw Wine Walk.
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It’s nice to really have the brain to write again, and to be full of so many possibilities.
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Did you know...
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The latest issue of MCM is available!
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Crime happens. And not every crime is perfectly planned or executed.
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Sometimes, there's a witness.
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Who wasn't supposed to be there.
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Or is there? How innocent is that person standing on the sidelines?
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These tales of crime and those watching it will leave you guessing up to the last moment.
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Come and enjoy MCM issue 21, starting our sixth year!
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Available at all reputable, and some disreputable, retailers.
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This month's sale is...
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This month, I made a box set of one of my series, The Long Run. This is available only on the Knotted Road Press store.
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Think Star Trek meets Leverage, as this crew of oddball aliens go out to con the universe out of everything they can grab. Plus, you know, free all people, everywhere, from the overarching corporate greed.
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AJ's latest vision starts with a dozen people being yanked out of sight by a noose around their neck. It ends with just a single body, hanging from a beam in an open loft.
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What the heck? Did she just witness the work of a serial killer? Or a cult?
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The victim turns out to be more nefarious: a Catfisher, that is, someone who impersonates other people on the internet for attention and possibly money.
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The reality TV show that exposes catfish turns their attention to AJ. As a successful psychic, she must be a fraud. Right?
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Between being pushed for information by one of the show’s host, the machinations of her mother on the Milltown chamber of commerce, and trying to keep her relationship with Roland moving along, AJ has her hands full.
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Particularly when a second, only somewhat reformed catfish comes to her for help after being threatened...
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Witch Mirror?— a cozy paranormal woman’s mystery—continues the adventures of AJ, the quirky characters of the charming Pacific Northwest burg of Milltown, and leaves AJ with questions about magical powers and her path forward, with her family, friends, and lover.
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Let the water—and the magic—flow.
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