Man Against "The Man"The audiobook version of Witch's Jewel is pending approval by ACX, so it should be available any day now. I intend to start negotiating with my narrator this week for book two in the series. I'm very excited to hear how she does...

Pretty Good Vs. Really GoodI just got an email from my narrator that the recording of Witch's Jewel is finished and the audiobook is being mastered. It won't be long now. I'm not putting it up on preorder since this is the first time I'm doing an aud...

Artistic skill wantingMy kids were really into Homestuck back in the day. This was a very long online comic that gained a rabid following due to its long (loooonng) story arcs with extremely high drama. I think part of the reason my kids and their fr...

Voted "Most Likely to Master Dark Occult Arts" in the Highschool YearbookI'm not that fond of the revenge fantasy. If Count Rugen kills your father so you kill him, the only real difference between the two of you is sequencing. That and you've now wa...

Listen upI'm sending this bonus newsletter because I have something fun to share with you.Audiobook sampleIt's only the first few minutes, because the file was too large to upload the entirety of it, but I'm very excited about sharing how well Shelle...

Wait till you hear this!Thanks to a generous patron, I am finally going to be able to offer Kit Melbourne in audiobook form! The past two weeks I spent listening to narrator auditions and it was very hard to choose from among dozens of superb samples...

Get Wizard's BunkerSpring is in the air, and it's time for heists, cults, and dark rituals in abandoned military bunkers. It's a huge relief to have Wizard's Bunker (Kit Melbourne book 11) finally published in ebook and paperback; the time between fi...

Only a daring heist will save them. Aaliyah is the most powerful psychic alive, strong enough to twist the fabric of space time. But even Aaliyah is caught wrong-footed when powerful sorcerers of the Society of the Golden Mean are killed simulta...

Boy. Sword. Dragon. Prophecy.I've always been a fast reader, and was one of those kids in school who prided herself on how many books she could read. But what I hated reading were books assigned to me in English class. It always seemed that teachers...

Mixing Fear and FunnyI've often felt that a specialty of mine is when I can combine truly horrific scenarios with absurd humor. I used this in "She's Taking her Tits to the Grave," a short story I workshopped at Clarion which was later published in T...