Wild times! The last few months have been wild with a number of changes for the fam. The biggest change is we moved to a domicile closer to my wife's work. On top of that, we have a newly minted teenager in the house fully embracing his hormones and angst. He's also establishing himself as one of the best players on his new fancy dandy soccer team and begun his refereeing career. And I thought youth soccer was practically all-consuming before he started playing at the premier level…little did I know. The younger son is doubling down on improving his reading and writing while dreaming of bec ..read more

In the latest entry of my book marketing series, I talk about the strategy/tactics I employed for my latest release. You can find my other marketing posts below: Email List Promo - What I've Experienced Social Media Promo - What I've Experienced Build your Newsletter list 101 Influencer Marketing Revisited: Email List Promo - What I've Experienced Feature Deal Report As I've stated previously, I'm not a book marketing maven. I'm just another soul lost in the promo wilderness! Release Day June 19, 2024 was the release day for The Wrath of Monsters. It also happene ..read more

Release Day Release day is finally here! That's right, today is June 19, 2024. I've been saying for a long time that I reckoned The Wrath of Monsters would be a summer book, but I was wrong. The solstice is tomorrow! So it's officially a late spring book. Blurb What's The Wath of Monsters all about? Read on the find out. Can Allison and her friends save the world without becoming monsters? Allison hoped her life would be free of torment after escaping the faeries. No sooner than Allison and her friends return home, the government imprisons Bria and Haji on a military base where scientists ..read more

That's right! The Wrath of Monsters comes out in one week on June 2019, 2024. This penultimate entry in Allison's saga can be read as a standalone or as the third entry in this award-winning series. Dragons Walk Among Us The series starts with my award-winning debut, Dragons Walk Among Us, published only three short years ago. Finally, after years of writing, re-writing, and querying, I became a published author. The frosting on the cake was the tale received some fantastic reviews and a couple of awards. Here is the blurb: Shutterbug Allison Lee is trying to survive high school while suff ..read more

June has arrived! We're halfway through 2024. Am I reaching my goal? Yes and no. Allow me to explain… Revisiting Authors Swan Song by Robert McCammon is one of my favorite books of all time. What can I say other than WOW? Amazing novel all around that is reminiscent of the works of Stephen King while being entirely unique. If post-apocalyptic novels that are both terrifying and uplifting are your jam, Swan Song is for you! So one of my goals for 2024 is to read more novels by Robert McCammon—at least one, as his books are lengthy. At first, I had my eyes set on Boy's Life as it had won a c ..read more

The author contacted me via the site's contact form, requesting a review of his novel Werecats Emergent. The tale was pitched as a young adult urban fantasy. As that is a genre I am interested in and having never heard of werecats before, I took him up on his offer of an ARC in exchange for a review. Mark J. Engels gives urban fantasy fans a nice twist on werewolves. As the title of his novel indicates, he introduces us to werecats. I have never encountered a book featuring werecats before and found the idea compelling. Engles weaves a storyline jampacked with action and intrigue ..read more

In the latest entry of my book marketing series, I talk about landing my first joint U.S. and international featured deal with BookBub. I have landed international featured deals on two or three occasions. This is the first time I've landed a coveted U.S. featured deal. You can find my other marketing posts below: Email List Promo - What I've Experienced Social Media Promo - What I've Experienced Build your Newsletter list 101 Influencer Marketing Revisited: Email List Promo - What I've Experienced As I've stated previously, I'm not a book marketing maven. I'm just another so ..read more

Today, I'd like to introduce you to Dr. Frederick Radcliffe, a dragon masquerading as a human. Dr. Radcliffe makes his first appearance in Dragons Walk Among Us as, to all appearances, a slightly avuncular professor specializing in medieval history. Eventually, Allison discovers Radcliffe's secret. This enigmatic character reappears in The Blood of Faeries and continues his fraught relationship with Allison in The Wrath of Monsters. Where were you born? I was born a long time ago, far away from here.   What is your dream job? My current job as the Director of the U.N. Draconic ..read more

Today, I'd like to introduce you to Ms. Bergman, a recurring villain in The Allison Lee Chronicles. Ms. Bergman makes her first appearance in The Blood of Faeries as the lead interrogator charged with deciphering how Allison's hybrid physiology ticks. She takes special pleasure in terrorizing Allison. She appears in The Wrath of Monsters to happily traumatize Allison once again. Where were you born? Heh. I was born in the Ivory Coast. What? Surprised? Heh. My father was a foreign service officer. There's not much to say about it, really. We came back to the Un ..read more

Today, I'd like to introduce you to Jett, a reoccurring character in The Allison Lee Chronicles. Jett is a trickster who first appears in The Blood of Faeries, using magic to mesmerize Allison and inflame lustful desires. He makes another appearance in The Wrath of Monsters. When Allison encounters him, she doesn't know if she wants to bash his head or kiss him. Where were you born? I was born in a WWII bunker on Golden Shoal. My people had repurposed it as our base of operations. Golden Shoal is one of Singapore's many outlying islands. A very remote one. People aren't allowed to access ..read more