The Sheltie Gazette: What is a witch?

... let me tell you a story. A Halloween story.It's about the first Halloween we were back in America. You see, when my older kids were little, we lived in Uganda for a while. Some of my children were born there and some were born here, but we were a...

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Oct 31, 2025
Sheltie Gazettes: How many times does one button work?

Hey — have I told you about the buttons?I got the dogs some talking buttons last spring. You know...the kind where they push a button, which says a word, and then you can have a conversation with your pet.* At our house, we currently have 6 buttons,...

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Oct 24, 2025
The Sheltie Gazette: Brought to you by the letter I

, do you want to hear about Inish?Thank you for hanging out with me for the book launch for The Knight & His Magical Armlet! We were in Amazon's Top 10 "New Releases for Fairy Tales" all week, and I loved getting your emails and comments about Ri...

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Oct 16, 2025
The Sheltie Gazette: "Why did she leave me?"

It was late summer, and Rian and River were lying in a meadow looking at the stars. “You aren’t going to get married, are you?” River reached out and brushed his dad’s solid arm. “No woman will ever change the way I feel about you, son.” “But are yo...

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Oct 09, 2025
The Sheltie Gazette: There aren't any lions in Ireland

It wasn’t the lion who killed him. Rian walked out of a meadow containing his tent and his dog and his six-year-old son, blinked in the disorienting shock of going through the Veil, and out into a different meadow with a lion pacing around a tree. I...

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Oct 08, 2025
The Sheltie Gazette: What would a mother have done?

It was only what any warrior would have done—that was not true. It took several years for Rian to learn this; not until he was assigned command of an entire twelve-knight troop. By this point, Fionn mac Cumhaill’s fianna—his band of warriors—was kno...

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Oct 06, 2025
Your new Castle in Kilkenny story is here! 📚

Happy Knight Day, !Well, it's Knight Day because your knight is here. Here is the second book about Rian, with more about his son and Nessa's plans in the middle of everything. It took several rewrites — some of you checked out the "inspiration draft...

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Oct 02, 2025