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October 4, 2025
Good Saturday morning! Did some good work yesterday, both with Claude, my AI buddy, using his analysis of some of my chapters and my wonky outline (in school, I was
Good Saturday morning! Did some good work yesterday, both with Claude, my AI buddy, using his analysis of some of my chapters and my wonky outline (in school, I was
A lot of my desert-dwelling cultures in THE WINGED WARRIOR are based on our own Earth cultures as a base, most notably the Berbers. According to Wikipedia, Berbers, or the Berber
The great folks at Markee Books make me sound smart! LOL. They took snippets of a longer interview I did with them and set smaller sections to specific topics. This
Canadian author and good friend Darlene Oakley‘s first book in the Inner Sanctum series, Remnant, was awarded the Best in Science Fiction & Fantasy — Dystopian category in the 2025
I’m doing some research on deserts, in particular the Saharan and my anthropology brain kicks into gear. I ran across this line: “As with most peoples living in the Sahara,
Today, I spiffed up chapter 20, where our hero, Zara has to fight off the cartel who have come to return her to her foster mother, the cartel boss, in
Y’all, I had a BLAST at the Texas Author & Reader Convention this past weekend (July 19-20) at the Irving Convention Center, in Irving, Texas! What a fabulous event run by Merrill David! We were
I’m not above stealing cool stuff! LOL Honestly though, I got this off best selling author Hugh Howey‘s blog. Thanks, Hugh, for sharing this with us all… The following was
I don’t know if you remember, or if I even mentioned it to you, though I have discussed it over on my Facebook page, @PattyPulsar. I am a member of the
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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.
