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I am so freaking excited to tell you that Death’s Awakening, the first book in my new YA series, will be released July 5th! For sixteen-year-old Parrish Sorrows, life is about to become a nightmare. This is the night she’ll wake up to her mother’s convulsions. The night she’ll lose contact with her father and sister in New York. The night 911 will stop answering the phone. This is the night a mysterious supernatural virus begins its deadly rampage across the globe, killing billions in a matter of days. And just when things can’t get worse, the dead begin to…

I got an interesting email today from Amazon. They announced that Amazon Prime members, in addition to already receiving free shipping and getting some streaming media, will now also be able to borrow books for free from the Kindle Owner’s Lending Library. There are limits, of course. You can only check out one book a month. There are no late fees or anything like that, but you do have to return your previous book in order to get a new book. Also, there are a limited number of books currently available in the lending library. From what I’ve heard, it’s…

Black Swan is the best movie I’ve seen in a really long time. G and I went to Winston-Salem to visit some friends and we decided to go see a movie on Saturday. The guys wanted to see True Grit, and even though I wasn’t entirely opposed to seeing that movie, I really really wanted to see Black Swan. And I’m so incredibly happy I did. Black Swan was exactly my type of movie. A thriller. A complete mind freak. Natalie Portman was brilliant in this movie and it was worth it just for seeing her amazing portrayal of Nina…

Some people call it the Muse. Others call it the Well. I guess I think of it as Mana, but then again, I’m a gamer, so that makes sense. What am I talking about? That special something that propels and motivates a writer to write and work hard. It’s hard to explain it, but it’s even harder to find it when it’s gone. Sometimes, an idea grabs me so hard that I have to write about it immediately. Usually, though, the ideas are the easy part. It’s the sitting down and writing part that can be tough. Once I’ve got…