Cookin’ up Books!

It's out! The ebook anyway. I'm at this writing waiting on the artist at @MarkeeBooks to adjust the cover art to the page count. You know how that goes!

But I am excited it's out and up and whew! Done!

Now, I can concentrate on
1. Updating my website a bit. (see? I am)
2. Catching up on Camp stuff (literarey camp we do every June)
3. Prep for this weekend's convention, Horror Indie Con thing in Irving.
4. Prep for the presentation I'm doing there on shadow genres
5. Prep for the month-long online workshop on Generating Gorgeous Genres for FFPRWA.org
6. Return to my novel, yay! The best part.

So, this was just a quickie to let you know I'm still hanging around. And oh, I made a Substack page!

PatHauldren.substack.com

See you around town!

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She’s running from the darkness. But what lurks inside her is darker.

The debut novel from award-winning author Pat Hauldren explores questions of who we think we are vs the truth of who we are, and the price we pay no matter the path taken.

Life is not simple for Zarachiel, freshly escaped from her drug-dealing foster parents in deep South Texas. In Dallas, she stays off the grid. She finds a new family in Gracie, from whom she leases an extra bedroom, and Katie, Gracie’s four-year-old daughter.

The cartel attacks just as Zarachiel makes contact with her biological father. They want what she stole from them.

Amid chaos and survival for both her and her new family, Zarachiel discovers her true nonhuman self as she fights for her freedom and the freedom of humanity.

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