Author of spooky, fantastical and swoony fiction and blogger of high strangeness.
“…don’t waste time looking for an easier world.” ~ Mary Oliver, Dogfish In a poem that already spoke to me, to a lot of what I’ve been dealing with over the last couple of years, this line jumped out and hit me square between the eyes. I’m so guilty of this, of constantly looking for […]
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Physical book lovers rejoice! Dominion of the Damned, the first book in my post-apocalyptic humans vs. vampires vs. zombies vs. evolution sci fi saga, is now in paperback. Click here to get your copy!
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What I thought was going to be a quick project that would take a couple of months at most but ended up taking about as long as an actual pregnancy has finally reached fruition: the brand new, revised and updated edition of Dominion of the Damned has finally arrived. And I think it was worth […]
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Back in December, I removed most of my indie titles from non-Amazon retailers and enrolled them in Kindle Unlimited and the Kindle Prime Lending Library. That enrollment will end on March 4th, and I don’t plan to renew it. That means, if you’re subscribed to Prime or KU, you’ve got until March 4th to borrow […]
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From now through Sunday, get the Kindle version of my horror collection, Midnight Snacks, absolutely free! This collection of Twilight Zone-esque shorts includes flash fiction set in the Trilogy of the Damned universe, a short story that has been favorably compared to works by Richard Bachman (aka Stephen King), and fan favorite Eucha Falls, my […]
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My first new release of 2019 is out and available pretty much everywhere e-books are sold! Women’s Work is a short story duo featuring two tough heroines that have captured my imagination, and I hope they’ll also capture yours. Here’s the official description: A woman’s work is never done, and rarely is it easy — […]
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KU subscribers and Amazon Prime members rejoice! Or at least give each other a high five. All of my short indie fiction is now back home on KU. Grab them all here. “But wait, Jean,” longtime readers might be thinking, “didn’t you just take them all out of KU at the start of this […]
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As you may or may not be aware, Dominion of the Damned has been getting an update to bring it more in line with the writing of the sequels (because six years is a long time for one’s writing style to evolve), and the new revised edition will be back on virtual book store shelves […]
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So this weekend (around 5PM on Saturday, to be somewhat more precise), this happened: The final word count came in at just under 72K, which is shorter than I thought it would be, but it took a turn toward the end that I think is much better than what I’d originally planned (note: just because […]
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It’s here! It’s here! At long last, book 3 of the Restless Spirits saga, Bound Spirits, in which the Wilson sisters battle an angry poltergeist, a weeping woman who woos people to a watery grave, mistaken beliefs about their parents, and–worst of all–wedding fever, is now available in e-book and trade paperback formats wherever […]
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