A New Subject for the Blog

I have been an avid crocheter for quite some time now, and though I have had limited experience selling things on Etsy, I have become quite devoted to the site and to the hilarious satire of it, Regretsy. Now I have joined April's Army in order to assist sellers in need.

"During the last week of each month, we sell a variety of items contributed by Regretsy.com fans. All profits are donated to Etsy artists and others in need. Over $70,000 has been raised by the Regretsy community for a number of great causes. To learn more, please see www.regretsy.com/charity

April's Army designates one person or charity to receive each month's profits. For July 2011, the recipient is April's Army Founder and Etsy seller WickdCreation. Mary and her husband are both unemployed and are faced with medical bills and possible eviction. They need our help to get back on track."

It is the sad truth that regular jobs are unreasonably difficult for many to come by during the current recession, and with unemployment and health benefits being slashed, any hand up for someone who is working hard to be an entrepreneur can be vital.

I am also working on expanding what little media fiefdom I have manage to build up (cue evil laugh), so I am thinking that Nat and Ferdinand plushes are just the beginning of how my writing career can have a useful partnership with crafters. Tie-in merchandise, even on a small scale, helps build a brand, and is a lot of fun to boot.

Thus, I unveil my multi-prong plan:

1. I am inviting April's Army sellers to do guest posts on this blog, much as I do with other Eternal Press authors.

2. When I see something that I think people who like my books will like, and it's being sold by someone in Team April, I will pimp it here.

3. As my discretionary income comes in bit by bit, I will slowly build a stockpile of custom-made Laconia merchandise to use for promotional giveaways and charity auctions.

Sounds good? I'm excited. Let's make this happen in our artistic ability!

A Ferdinand to Keep the Nat Plush Company

House of Plush again. Suzanne works really fast.

Oh Ferdy, I can't wait to get you in the mail and give you and Nat huggles. He's even got a little journal and pencil to write poems and stories in!

I commissioned a Nat plush!

Isn't he lovable? I got him from http://www.etsy.com/people/houseofplush for just $20 plus $3 shipping. She finished him in just one day! I think I have to get a Ferdinand to keep him company.

One of my new hobbies is giving a boost to Etsy sellers in need. Suzanne Gregg is currently unemployed through no fault of her own, and Etsy is her sole income at the moment, so supporting her would definitely be a great thing to do.

Great news!

Let me proudly link you to the first poem I have ever sold (though it was written on commission rather than a completely original work): http://www.metta-physics.com/2011/07/poetry-e-equals-empty-scared-by-donaya-haymond/

You may remember some earlier blog posts about sci-fi stories and poems I was hired to write on Elance. Five short works for $100. I'm very pleased. I presume the other works will be meted out.

My Writing Playlist (in progress)

LACONIA BOOKS

1st Generation

Ferdinand:
- "Supernatural Superserious", REM

Ferdinand and Selene:
- "Yellow", Coldplay
- "What Sarah Said", Death Cab for Cutie
- "Eric's Song", Vienna Teng
- "You've Got the Love", Florence + The Machine
- "Hero/Heroine", Boys Like Girls
- "Rainbow Veins", Owl City
- "Vanilla Twilight", Owl City

Selene:
- "Lullabye for a Stormy Night", Vienna Teng

Selene and Dianne:
- "Daughter", Vienna Teng

Dianne:
- "Howl", Florence + The Machine
- "Ode to My Family", The Cranberries
- "Strange", Tokio Hotel & Keri
- "Imitation of Life", REM

Dianne and Matthew:
- "The Scientist", Coldplay

Ferdinand and Nat:
- "Little Lion Man", Mumford & Sons
- "Gimme a Sign", Kevin Rudolf
- "Fix You", Coldplay
- "The Last Day On Earth", Kate Miller-Heidke
- "The Engine Driver", The Decemberists
- "If You Could Read My Mind", Gordon Lightfoot


Nat:
- "You're Gonna Go Far, Kid", The Offspring
- "Spaceman", The Killers
- "When You Were Young", The Killers
- "I Wanna", All-American Rejects
- "Driver 8", REM
- "Judas", Lady Gaga

Nat, Taylor, (Charity, Myra):
- "Star of Wonder", The Roches

Taylor:
- "Bright Eyes", Art Garfunkle
- "The Tower", Vienna Teng
- "Rabbit Heart (Raise It Up)", Florence + The Machine
- "How Can I Keep From Singing?", traditional folk song

Taylor and Derrick:
- "It's All Been Done", Barenaked Ladies
- "Such Great Heights", The Postal Service
- "We Will Become Silhouettes", The Postal Service
- "Brand New Colony", The Postal Service
- "The Blood of Eden", Peter Gabriel

Derrick:
- "The Great Beyond", REM
- "One Week", Barenaked Ladies
- "Light Up My Room", Barenaked Ladies
- "The Starman", David Bowie

Edofine:
- "Strangers Like Me", Phil Collins
- "Two Worlds", Phil Collins

Edofine and Lira:
- "In Your Eyes", Peter Gabriel


2nd Generation (books not yet published)

Demetrius (as an adult):
- "Psycho Killer", Talking Heads
- "Life During Wartime", Talking Heads
- "Viva La Vida", Coldplay

Sally:
- "Australia", The Shins

Puffin:
- "Cops and Robbers", ?
- "Private Eye", ?

Puffin and Sandi:
- "I Must Have Done Something Good", Reliant K

Charity:
- "The War on Drugs", Barenaked Ladies
- "How to Save a Life", The Fray
- "Cosmic Love", Florence + The Machine
- "Breakable", Ingrid Michaelson
- "Headlock", Imogen Heap
- "Sing", The Dresden Dolls
- "Tiny Voices", Bad Religion

Charity and Myra:
- "Red Rain", Peter Gabriel

Opal and Amaranth:
- "The Dog Days Are Over", Florence + The Machine

Rivki:
- "Son of Man", Phil Collins

Rivki and Val:
- "Six Feet Under the Stars", All Time Low
- "Fields of Gold", Sting

Val:
- "My Name is Luka", Suzanne Vega

Ikh:
- "The Rake's Song", The Decemberists

Taran:
- "Born this Way", Lady Gaga

Taran and Eric:
- "I'll Cover You (Reprise)", from RENT

Taran and Creed:
- "Straight to You", Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds
- "Into My Arms", Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds

Myra:
- "The Sound of Silence", Simon & Garfunkle
- "Chasing the Dragon", Epica
- "Growing Up", Peter Gabriel
- "Blinding", Florence + The Machine

Myra and Felix:
- "Soul Meets Body", Death Cab for Cutie
- "Anan Water", The Decemberists

Felix and Rose:
- "Violet Hill", Coldplay

The Devil:
- "Red Right Hand" - Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds

Wren Fielding:
- "The Girl Anachronism" - The Dresden Dolls
- "Half Jack" - The Dresden Dolls
- "My Alcoholic Friends" - The Dresden Dolls
- "Ding Dong" - Nellie McKay
- "Mercy Street" - Peter Gabriel


Whole Series:
- "Human", The Killers
- "True Believers", Bouncing Souls


Misc.
- "Sons and Daughters", The Decemberists
- "Marching Bands of Manhattan", Death Cab for Cutie
- "Hello Seattle", Owl City
- "Swimming in Miami", Owl City



~*~*~*~



SEASONS FOUR OPEN THE DOOR

Whole book:
- "Calamity Song", The Decemberists
- "It's the End of the World As We Know It (And I Feel Fine)", REM

Jared:
- "Wendell Gee", REM
- "Maps and Legends", REM
- "Fireflies", Owl City
- "Closer to Fine", Indigo Girls

Jared and Kira:
- "I Run to You", Lady Antebellum
- "Falling Slowly", from the movie Once

Kira:
- "Circle of Steel", Gordon Lightfoot
- "June Hymn", The Decemberists
- "In the Eye", Suzanne Vega
- "When Your Mind's Made Up", from Once
- "Lady Isobel's Knight", traditional folk song

Timmy:
- "The King of Bedside Manor", Barenaked Ladies

William:
- "January Hymn", The Decemberists

Gwen:
- "Don't Carry it All", The Decemberists

Radcliff:
- "I Wish I Was James Bond", ?

Lynne and Amber:
- "Under Your Spell", Amber Benson (written by Joss Whedon)
- "Momentum", Vienna Teng

Rain:
- "Sober", P!nk
- "River's Dance", from the Firefly Sountrack
- "You Can't Take the Sky from Me", Firefly Theme Tune
- "Land of Canaan", Indigo Girls
- "Poker Face", Lady Gaga

Minor Character Ensemble:
- "Pork and Beans", Weezer
- "Firework", Katy Perry

Djones:
- "Deadly Handsome Man", ?


Will update as I get ideas and encounter new songs. :)

A Mess of Links

I now have a Goodreads author page. Check it out. Since posts on this blog are now linked to it and show up there, is this an example of recursion? XD

Another new video, as well. This one is a celebration of all four currently out books. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v​=5Nc5qJ1TMKw

And I now have a tumblr, called Geek Nip. It is mostly focused on stuff I find entertaining rather than promotion, but you might enjoy it.

Welcome to Nicola E. Sheridan!

Title: "Magical Gains",

Genre: Paranormal/fantasy romance.

Blurb:

When wishes are forbidden, what's a Genie to do?

Imran is sexy. He is available, but taking anything from him is illegal and could land you in prison or at the very least, with an extraordinarily large tax bill.

Imran is a genie and Primrose a government employee, and in a world where magic is heavily governed to ensure equality for all, their relationship appears doomed from the start.

When Primrose finds herself the unwilling mistress of a hot male Genie, her stifling suburban lifestyle is shattered. Thrust into the steamy Free Zone, filled with lascivious Satyrs and treacherous Sirens, Primrose discovers that three wishes can giver her anything she needs, but can they give her what she truly wants?

Excerpt:

“Just make three little wishes. No one will know,” Imran urged smoothly. “Just little things, you know, a new pair of shoes, maybe a necklace, and a puppy.” He grinned.

Primrose looked aghast.

“A Magical Investigations Team would be out here in a second!” she snapped.

“That’s not really a problem since I’m not registered,” he drawled. “Correct me if I am wrong, but it is only registered magical beings whose magic is traceable.” Imran’s black eyes flashed with amusement.

Primrose Brasco, apart from being incurably prudish, was a lovely-looking creature. Small and curvaceous, with long, cascading chocolate brown hair and honey brown eyes, she was every male Genie’s dream mistress.

Primrose sighed. “You may be unregistered, but the government can still detect your magic, even if they don’t know who or what you are…” She paused, taking yet another gulp of air. “I really don’t want to risk it. I’m sorry. I think I’ll have to turn you in myself.”

A flash of anxiety flickered in Imran’s dark eyes but was gone in an instant.

“I don’t think you should do that,” he replied very casually, as his eyes became unreadable.

“Really? Why?”

“Because…” He paused for subtle effect. “I will do everything in my quite substantial power to make your life a misery.” He smiled again with wicked white teeth.

Primrose stiffened. “Then I suppose we have a problem,” she whispered.

Bio:

Nicola E. Sheridan is a West Australian author, who specializes in the use of magic and mythology in contemporary romance. A mother of two, with a Bachelor of science majoring in Archaeology and Anthropology, Nicola enjoys spending time with her family, reading, writing, 4x4ing and travel. Her second book, "Magical Creations" is due for release in October this year, and "Mimosa Black" a paranormal novella is due for release in December.

http://www.nicolasheridan.com/

http://www.magicalgains.blogspot.com/

Much Better Book Trailer

My friend whom I consulted on the subject was right. iMovie is far superior to Windows MovieMaker, and easy to use. See my new trailer for Humans and Demons and Elves here:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oWzvajkXVc0

The song is not mine; I am merely borrowing it in exchange for giving Mr. Phil Collins some advertising (so glad YouTube makes that an option).

My New Page at Manic Readers

By following the bread crumbs back from the Eternal Press Reviews page, I found Manic Readers, a site that helps you submit your published work to several review blogs at once. I have a page there now. Just going with the free account at the moment, but if it proves useful I may try a subscription. It's yet another place to find biographical information, bibliographical information, and a few pictures that may be of interest.

http://www.manicreaders.com/DonayaHaymond/

This picture below is one of the ones I've posted there. I'm on vacation at the moment, but during the school year this is how I tend to decorate my half of a dorm:

Pretty cunning, don'tcha think? :D

Humans and Demons and Elves

http://eternalpress.biz/book.php?isbn=9781615724352

The Elves of North America use dimension-bending magic to conceal their woodland villages from humans, though it fails to protect them from the beautiful-but-deadly Eudemons. Edofine is less prejudiced than many, even befriending an Archaedemon, whose people are known for switching sides in the ancient conflict. But when young Edofine's clan is destroyed, he has only one person to turn to: his cousin Kryvek, who was adopted by humans who established the Official Magics-Humans Institute (OMHI). Will Edofine be able to adjust to human society? Can the OMHI help him despite facing its own crisis? Could he possibly be falling in love with Kryvek’s friend Lira, a half-Elf half-Eudemon working for the OMHI? His life has fallen to pieces, and the reconstruction is full of surprises.

Sample Passage:

"One more time. You turn these knobs, and water comes out. One knob has hot water and one has cold water. You adjust the amount depending on your preference."

"And then what do I do?" Edofine stood inside the shower, gingerly poking the pipes. He was still in full Elf regalia, complete with dead leaves and grass stains.

"Cover yourself with soap and stand under the water so that it washes off. Do you think you can handle that?"

"You do this every day?"

"Yes."

"What a waste of time and water."

"Way to be sanctimonious, kid. I am merely teaching you how to conform to local hygienic standards. When you live indoors in small apartments, washing frequently becomes very important. Some even enjoy it. I'll leave you alone now to get acquainted with it."

Kryvek was growing annoyed with having to explain these basic things to his cousin. He knew Edofine wasn't being obtuse on purpose, but helping him was like having a child to take care of. Kryvek's stomach growled again and he looked at his watch for the fourth time in ten minutes.

Panic rose in Edofine's throat, which, coupled with his hunger and disorientation, made him worried he might vomit. "You cannot leave me. What if I do something wrong and I scald myself? What if the magic governing these pipes breaks down? Anything could happen."

Kryvek was about to dismiss Edofine's fears, but he saw the hurt in Edofine's drooping shoulders and bowed head and changed his mind. "All right. I'll stand right here in the doorway and talk you through the process. First take your clothes off.” Standing in the shower, Edofine disrobed. Kryvek noted many scars and bruises underneath the grime. “You have to put the clothes outside of the shower, otherwise they’ll get wet.”

“Now turn the hot knob…”

“Aiee!”

“I meant turn it while standing sort of away from the stream of water, so it wouldn’t hit you full force. No, don’t turn it off! Turn on some of the cold!”

“I think you are trying to kill me…”

Leave a comment to have a chance to win a free PDF of either this novella or one of my three other published books of your choice!

Write-A-Thon Update

I've raised my target amount of money - actually slightly more than my target amount - and I'm going on a sabbatical from these daily blog postings. I feel bad doing so, like I'm letting people down, but I've just exhausted my creative juices. Guess I'm not like some of my friends in that regard, who can keep churning out good work without getting sick of it.

This does not mean I'm abandoning all writing enterprises, though. I am slowly building up a short story for a new Damnation Books anthology, as well as launching Humans and Demons and Elves tomorrow and the day after (time zones are making my schedule funny). I am also translating yet another Shakespeare play into modern English for my best Elance client.

I will eventually get back to expanding The Raw Ghosts of Thailand and working on Sweeping the Puddles Away, I promise. I'm just going to concentrate on the stuff that pays immediately for now.

Thank you for your understanding.

Welcome to Kathryn Meyer Griffith!

The Story of Vampire Blood

Author’s Revised Edition by Kathryn Meyer Griffith

A rerelease of my 1991 Zebra paperback romantic vampire novel

out from http://www.damnationbooks.com on July 7, 2011

In 1990 or so I’d just got done releasing my first three paperback novels with Leisure Books, a romantic historical (The Heart of the Rose 1985) and two romantic horror books (Evil Stalks the Night, 1984 and Blood Forge, 1989), and because I wasn’t making much money on them, was looking, as most so-called restless young authors were doing, to move up in the publishing industry.

So I wrote snail mail letters to three established authors of the day – Dean Koontz, Stephen King and Peter Straub – asking for a little advice and a little help. What do I do next? I want to be one of the big dogs running in the big races. I want to make the big bucks. Be famous like you. (Ha, ha. I was so naïve in those days!)

Well, Stephen King and Peter Straub never answered my letters but one rainy fall night I got a phone call from Gerda Koontz (Dean Koontz’s wife) and she said Dean had gotten my letter and wanted me to have a name of a brand new agent who I should call or write to and say I was recommended by him. If I thought it strange that Dean Koontz himself wasn’t actually talking to me I was told by Gerda that he was a shy man and had had a particularly hard couple of months because of family problems (I think it had something to do with his father in a nursing home or something, but can’t exactly recall now) and he’d asked her to call me. She often did that for him, as well as helping him with the business side of his writing career. He (through her…and I got the impression that he was actually nearby telling her what to say the whole time) said I had to have an agent (I didn’t have one) and then he gave me the name of an ambitious one, Lori Perkins, just starting out and his advice on what I should do to advance as a writer.

I do remember being incredibly touched that he, a famous busy novelist that I admired – I loved his Twilight Eyes – would take the time to talk to me, even through his wife. They were both so sweet and we talked for nearly an hour all about writing, books and everything.

I took their advice and contacted that agent and she agreed immediately to represent me on my fourth book, Vampire Blood, no doubt, because I said Dean Koontz had recommended her to me. Name dropper! But Vampire Blood was the reason I’d contacted those famous authors in the first place. I thought it was the best book I’d done so far and wanted it to go to (what I thought at the time) would be a better publisher than Leisure Books, which contracted and hog-tied their writers with a horrible ‘potboiler’ one-size-fits-all ten year contract with low advances and 4% royalties. Yes, I got a whole whopping 14 cents a book in those days, but, I must confess, they did print thousands of paperbacks each run and had a huge distribution area. I thought I could do a lot better. Anyway, Lori Perkins wanted me to send her the book and she did like it and eventually sold it, and then three others zip-zip-zip right after, to Zebra Books (now known more as Kensington Publishing) at 6% royalties and double the advances I was used to getting. They slapped a sexy blond vampire with a low dress on the cover and a hazy theater behind her. Lovely colors. I thought it was an eye-catching cover. I was so happy. I thought I’d made it! Again, so naïve.

Vampire Blood. A little story about a family of vicious killing vampires who settle in a small Florida town called Summer Haven and end up buying and fixing up an old theater palace to run, and pluck their victims from, and a divorced, down-on-her-luck ex-novelist and her hard luck father, who along with friends, help thwart them.

Now to how and why I wrote it.

My husband and I lived in this small Illinois town, Cahokia, at the time and there was the neatest little hole-in-the-wall theater in a nearby shopping center we used to go to all the time…run by a family of a sweet man, Terry, and his wife, Ann, and sometimes their three children, two teenage boys and a girl named Irene. Such a friendly, but odd couple. The run-down theater was their whole world it seemed. The kids helped take in the tickets, pop the popcorn and sell the candy snacks.

Now the minute Terry and Ann found out, in one of our earliest conversations, that I was a published novelist they were my greatest fans. Terry went right out and bought all three of my books and they all read them. Terry always thought they’d make great movies. Next time my husband and I went to the little theater Terry and Ann greeted us like old friends, so delighted to see us, and refused to take a dime from us for anything. We got in free whenever we went from then on. Now in those days my husband, my son, James, and I were pretty broke. I worked as a graphic designer at a big brokerage firm in downtown St. Louis (across the Poplar Bridge from our Illinois town) but my husband was in between jobs. We lived on a shoestring. Hard times. So I always was so tickled that we could get into the local movies for free. We went a lot, too, as we loved movies, especially science fiction and horror films.

One night I was watching Terry and Ann and their joy in running that little theater, with the kids bustling around doing their jobs, and I got the idea for Vampire Blood. Just like that! Use them and the theater as a backdrop for a vampire novel. Hey, wouldn’t it be neat, I off-handedly mentioned to Terry one night, if I wrote a book about a family of vampires that was trying to pass as a real human family, the man and woman wanting so badly to fit in and lead a normal life for a while, renovating and then running a theater together…but the kids are wild and, as kids always do, make trouble for them in the town…killing people? Terry loved the idea and I asked him if it’d be all right to use him and his family as a template for the vampires. He was thrilled to be part of anything to do with my books and said yes. So…I wrote this book about them (sort of), the theater (making it much grander than it was, of course), a small town terrorized by cruel, powerful vampires who can change into wolves at will….and a saddened lonely woman, her brother, and her ex-husband (who she still loves and ultimately ends up with again after he saves her life) who finds herself again, but loses a lot, as well, fighting these vampires. Vampires she doesn’t believe in at first.

I was very happy with the book when it was done and dedicated it to Terry and Ann when it came out in 1991. Terry and Ann were thrilled, too.

So Vampire Blood came out and did very well for me, second only to my Zebra 1993 Witches. As the years went by it went out of print and when, twenty years later, Kim Richards at Damnation Books contracted my 13^th and 14^th novels, BEFORE THE END: A Time of Demons and The Woman in Crimson, she asked if I’d like to rerelease (with new covers and rewritten, of course) my 7 out-of-print Leisure and Zebra paperbacks – and I said a resounding yes!

So…here it is…Vampire Blood…twenty years later, alive again and better, I believe, than the original because my writing then was done on an electric typewriter, with gobs of White-Out and carbon paper (I couldn’t afford copies), using snail mail; all of which didn’t lend itself to much rewriting. And in those days, editors told an author what to change and then the writer only saw the manuscript once to final proof it. Who knew what those sneaky editors were slipping in inbetween and before the final book was in an author’s greedy little hands. Hey, and I was working full time, raising a son, living a life and caring for my big extended family in one way or another, too. Busy, exciting, loving, happy and sad times.

For this new version, Damnation Book’s cover artist Dawné Dominique made me an astonishingly intriguing cover of a lovely vampire (Irene the youngest vampire who turns out to be the most brutal and ancient in the end)…but, thank goodness, without the low sexy top. And my DB editor, April Duncan, helped me make it a better novel.

A lot has happened to me and my family in these twenty years, as well. Both my parents, and my beloved maternal grandmother, the storyteller of her generation, have since passed away. Many people we used to know have. Old boyfriends, old friends and relatives. I miss them all! I no longer have that agent; she went on to bigger advances and bigger writers. I lost my good job at the brokerage firm, bumped around in lesser jobs for years, always writing in my spare time, and now, at long last, write full time while my husband works way too hard in a machine shop to support us.

Rewriting the book brought back so many good memories…and tears over those no longer here. The theater closed sixteen years ago, the owner believing it’d served its purpose and used up its time. Terry and Ann, heartbroken, were never the same. They had other jobs, none they truly cared about. Ann is still with us, but Terry died a few years ago, I heard from someone. We lost contact once they stopped running the theater and we moved from Cahokia to a nicer town miles away.

But I’ll never forget those early days and the stories that came with them. Days of high hopes and far distance future dreams…some of which have come true and some which haven’t. I’ve never made the big bucks, never gotten truly famous, but now, at long last and to my great delight, all twelve of my older books, from Leisure, Zebra, and The Wild Rose Press are being rewritten and reissued from Damnation Books and Eternal Press between June 2010 and July 2012. Better than ever after I’d rewritten them. I have plans to write more books and short stories, too, when they’re done. Most importantly, I’m living a good life with a husband I adore and brothers and sisters I love. Writing the stories I was born to write and happy I am. I have my memories. All in all, I’m a lucky, lucky woman.

So, all you writers out there…never give up and never stop writing!

Thank you!

***

Kathryn Meyer Griffith has been writing for nearly forty years and has published 14 novels and 7 short stories since 1984 with Zebra Books, Leisure Books, Avalon Books, The Wild Rose Press, Damnation Books and Eternal Press in the horror, romantic paranormal, suspense and murder mystery genres… and all 12 of her old books, see below, (and two new ones) are being brought out again.

Here’s a list of all my published novels and short stories:

Evil Stalks the Night (Leisure,1984; Damnation Books, July 2012)

The Heart of the Rose (Leisure,1985)

Blood Forge (Leisure,1989; Damnation Books, February 2012)

Vampire Blood (Zebra, 1991; Damnation Books, July 2011)

The Last Vampire (Zebra, 1992; Damnation Books, October 2010)

Witches (Zebra, 1993; Damnation Books, April 2011)

The Nameless One (short story in 1993 Zebra Anthology Dark Seductions;

Damnation Books, February 2011)

The Calling (Zebra, 1994; Damnation Books, October 2011)

Scraps of Paper (Avalon Books Murder Mystery, 2003)

All Things Slip Away (Avalon Books Murder Mystery, 2006)

Egyptian Heart (The Wild Rose Press, 2007...out again from Eternal Press in

August 2011)

Winter's Journey (The Wild Rose Press, 2008...out again from Eternal Press in

September 2011)

The Ice Bridge (The Wild Rose Press, 2008...out again from Eternal Press in November 2011)

Don't Look Back short story (2008...out again from Eternal Press in 2011)

In This House (short story 2008...out again from Eternal Press in 2011)

BEFORE THE END: A Time of Demons (2010)

The Woman in Crimson (2010) ***

Happy Independence Day Weekend!

First, a tribute to The Marquis de Lafayette and his relationship with George Washington:

(Click to embiggen)

Then a conversation that surely happened between John Adams and Thomas Jefferson:

(Click to embiggen.)

For more of inkyparthia's great artwork and comics, go to http://inkyparthia.tumblr.com .