Happy New Year

I would say I can't believe I haven't posted anything since July, but that'd be a lie. Life happens, and mine did all year long. I got behind in writing due to life, but now things are settling down, and I plan to hit 2019 with a bang.

I managed to hit it a day early with the release of Finding Us. It is a Music Within short story. I've wanted to tell Sloane and Pauly's story for a while, and the holidays seemed like the perfect time to do so. You can find the story here: Finding Us

I have so many books in the works: Deacon, Book 12 in The Stone Society, Waging War, Book 1 in The Hounds of Zeus, Finding Home, Book 4 in the Music Within, and Savior, the 3rd book in my YA trilogy, The Guardians of Truth.

I would like to wish you all a very Happy New Year. Thank you for being patient with me in 2018. 

Impact

This book contains 110 stories of 300 words or less each.

Book Blurb:

IM * PACT
(noun)

1) One object colliding with another

2) An impinging of something upon something else

3) An influence or effect on something or someone

4) The force of a new idea, concept, technology or ideology

Four definitions to inspire writers around the world, and an unlimited number of possible stories to tell, but only 110 made the final cut.

Imapct: A difficult choice to be made. An object hurtling recklessly through space. A new invention that will change the world. So many things can impact a life, a society, or a planet.

Impact features 300 word speculative fiction ficlets from across the queer spectrum from the minds of the writers of Queer Sci Fi.

Welcome to Impact.

Series Blurb:

It's hard to tell a story in just 300 words. Each year we ask writers to take the challenge, turning in stories across the queer spectrum. The rules are simple. Write a complete sci fi, fantasy, paranormal or horror story, include LGBTIQA characters, and do it all with just 300 carefully chosen words.

Excerpt (Non-Exclusive):

Since this book is composed of stories of no more than 300 words, we can’t really do a standard excerpt, so we’re offering you the teaser first lines from a number of stories.

“She’d needed new oil. She felt her joints grow stiff, her muscles grow tight, her follicles thickening. If she didn’t get fresh quarts soon, people she passed would start calling her sir, asking, Where’s your gun?” —Crossville Station, by Nathan Alling Long
“The mallet's impact on the hard, bright disk shattered the silence in the talking chamber. The resulting deep tone reverberated through the vault, through Saskia, as she fidgeted beside her lover.” —Settled, by Aidee Ladnier
“This is how the world ends, or so they say. From where I'm standing, it simply looks like a rolling darkness as distant lights flicker and die.” —Visitors, by LJ Phillips
“’What have you done?’ The mechanical eyes came to rest on his face, the droning beep sounding loud in the small room.” —Identity and Change, by Jo Tannah
“’Once upon a world, we were the same,’ he said, lifting my hand to his lips; the ground shaking beneath us.” —Impact, by Jack Ladd
“I been a tinker and soothsayer long enough to know this country's at the cusp of war. They stir up hate easy as breath. And, oh, it pains my soul to see it. “ —Impact of Intervention, by Patricia Scott
“All lives begin with a messy impact of some kind. The crash of zygotes and gametes. Splats of silica gel between cybernetic synapses. Two women slam into each other carrying full cups of coffee.” —Quintessence, by E.M. Hammill
“If I venture far enough into the house, I’ll find my closet.” —The Closet, by K.S. Trenten
“It touched Ligaya when she was a child. Or she touched it. A half-glimpsed shape under her bed.” Mas Mabuti An Answang, by Foster Bridget Cassidy
“Jam zipped down the neon track, feather-light in low gravity. She rocketed forward, a glowing haze in her starred helmet, and shot past the pack. “Space Jammer!” echoed as she neared the line. Time to rack up the points.” —First Bout: Andromedolls Vs. Crotch Rockets, by Ginger Streusel

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Amazon Kindle: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07FC91HH2
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About Queer Sci Fi:

At Queer Sci Fi, we're building a community of sci fi, fantasy, paranormal and horror writers and readers who want a little rainbow in their speculative fiction. We run a great discussion group on Facebook, a twitter feed, and have a website full of useful materials, news, and announcements for readers and writers of queer speculative fiction.

Website: https://www.queerscifi.com
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What's Going On

It's been quite a while since I blogged. If you follow me on FB or the Zon, you know what books I've put out. If you subscribe to my newsletter, you are up to date on all things Faith. I'll do a little recap just in case you have no idea why I've been away for a while.

Being a work from home author is the best job in the world. But it also comes with the ability to kind of lose yourself when things go awry. When I worked a 9-5 job and things went south, I had to put on my big girl britches and deal with life. Working from home, I don't have that accountability. When my husband had surgery, I had to drive him to and from work every day, taking an hour out of my schedule. When my pup got sick, I had to take her to the vet a couple times a week, also taking hours out of my writing day. When she passed away unexpectedly (she was getting better), my life spiraled.

You see, she wasn't just a dog; she was my best friend. My writing partner. The one. She had been with me through the worst of times and the best of times. Now, instead of reaching out to pet her and ground myself, I'm sort of lost. I don't have her to calm the crazy. On top of that, we have found a new house to move to, so I have been packing and cleaning and purging. When do I write? Good question.

I have no idea how I managed to finish Seeker. It's actually a great book, so maybe the crazy transfered onto the pages of the book and weaved a story better than it normally would have been. But it's out there, and I hope you've given it a look. It might be in the YA category, but like all my books, it's filled with adventure and mystery.

I'm currently working on Tamian, Book 11 in the Stone Society as well as a New Series... The Hounds of Zeus. These books are about a clan of shifters, but this time around, I'm writing about Gryphons. You'll be introduced to the Hounds in Tamian.

Speaking of the Stone Society, I have put together a box set of the first 4 books and have dropped the price from $16 to $9.99.  You cannot get the box set on the big retailers. I am offering them through a my website, or you can click here: Stone Society Box Set

I hope you all have a wonderful summer, and I will be back soon.

The Ghost in the Water is Live

The Ghost in the Water, Samuel Dexter, Book 2 is Live. This book was a long time coming. Over a year,  in fact. The original premise came to me in a dream, and that's how Cindy was brought to life. Or death, since she's a little ghost. I knew the book would be MM, but I didn't know it would be about an interracial couple. And I didn't know I would fall so hard for these two guys. Dex and Orlando are so very real to me. Their lives, their struggles, everything about them, I feel deeply. When it came time to write book 2, they weren't ready because I wasn't ready. I was sitting down to write this sappy, easy-going story, and that's not where they were. Of course, they got through most of their struggles, but it didn't start off that way. When I was ready to listen, they were ready to talk.

Book 2 picks up where book 1 left off, and the mysteries withiin their stories were intriguing to me. I had the idea for one of the characters for months, but it took a bit of research before i was ready to write about a person with Dissociative Identity Disorder (formerly known as multiple personalities). I didn't want the whole focus of the book to be on that character, but I wanted to understand it enough to make her seem real. I hope I did Lindy justice.

If you like MM mysteries, I hope you'll take a chance on these books.

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A M/M Mystery

A Marine who can’t remember. A detective who wants him to forget. It’ll take them both to catch a serial killer.

There’s a serial killer in Robins, Alabama, and he’s targeting women who look like the missing young woman Samuel Dexter and his PI mentor, Jillian, are searching for. As Sam trains to become a Private Investigator, he is also learning more about being a medium. During his missing persons case, two ghosts contact Sam, allowing him to put both new sets of skills to use.

In Orlando Shaw’s years as a detective in small town Robins, he’s never come up against a serial killer. Until now. The killer is smart, leaving only the most elusive clues behind. Orlando has always relied on his team, but as the killer continues to evade capture, Orlando turns to the one person who has connections beyond his reach - his lover, Sam.

Navigating the rough waters of their reunion, Sam and Orlando learn there is give and take in a relationship. The love they felt as teens is gone, replaced with a more mature love, and it will take compromise by both men to make it work.

With the help of his little ghost, Cindy, Sam embraces his new gifts as together they help solve another crime.

The Ghost in the Water is book 2 in the Samuel Dexter Series. These books are written to be read in order.