• Back to blogging soon …

    Just a note to let everyone know that I am slowly catching up from being away at the RT Booklovers Convention. I’ll respond to e-mails, comments, etc. as I can.

    I should be back to blogging twice a week –Mondays and Wednesdays — starting on Monday, May 13. I’m hoping to do a wrap-up of the convention soon too. We’ll see what happens.

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    Off to the RT Booklovers Convention …

    Barring some last-minute, unforeseen snafu, I’ll be attending the annual RT Booklovers Convention in Kansas City this week, which means that I will be offline for most of the week. I will respond to e-mails, comments, etc. when I am back in the office next week.

    Here are some of the events that I am scheduled to attend during the conference:

    WEDNESDAY, MAY 1

    3:45-4:45 p.m.: Spooky Soiree: Loving the Things That Go Bump in the Night

    THURSDAY, MAY 2

    12:20-1:20 p.m.: Kensington’s Afternoon Books Spree

    4-6 p.m.: E-Book, Indie Publisher, and Graphic Novel EXPO

    FRIDAY, MAY 3

    11:15 a.m. to 12:15 p.m.: That Old Black Magic

    SATURDAY, MAY 4

    11 a.m. to 2 p.m.: Giant Book Fair — please note that I will sitting in the YA Alley with the other young adult authors

    2:30-3:30 p.m.: Author Speed-Dating (as part of Teen Day)

    6:15-8 p.m.: Teen Day Party

    For those of you going to the convention, hope to see you there. For those of you who are not attending, I’ll try to do a round-up post of the convention when I return.

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    Elemental Assassin reading order …

    So I’ve gotten a couple of questions about the reading order for my Elemental Assassin urban fantasy series.

    Of course, I would suggest reading the books in order, starting with Spider’s Bite, the first book in the series. But, as you finish each book, I would check my Excerpts page and read the free short story (or stories) that go along with each book. For example, Spider’s Bargain goes along with Spider’s Bite, while Web of Death and Web of Deceit go along with Web of Lies. And so on and so forth.

    You’re not necessarily missing anything if you don’t read the free short stories, but I thought those would be fun extras for readers.

    I also have an e-novella — Thread of Death — and a couple of short stories that I’ve done for anthologies — Haints and Hobwebs and Parlor Tricks. So I’ve listed the reading order of those below with the books:

    • Spider’s Bite — book #1
    • Web of Lies — book #2
    • Venom — book #3
    • Tangled Threads — book #4
    • Haints and Hobwebs story in The Mammoth Book of Ghost Romance — takes place after the events of Tangled Threads
    • Spider’s Revenge — book #5
    • Thread of Death e-novella — takes place after the events of Spider’s Revenge
    • By a Thread — book #6
    • Widow’s Web — book #7
    • Deadly Sting — book #8
    • Parlor Tricks story in Carniepunk anthology — takes place after the events of Deadly Sting
    • Heart of Venom — book #9

    Does that make sense? Anyway, hope this answers some questions about the reading order of the series. Happy reading!

  • Blogging break …

    I’ve got some writing deadlines and other things going on, so I’m taking a brief break from blogging.

    I’ll be doing a post next week about the annual RT Booklovers Convention, but other than that, I’ll won’t be doing much here on the blog until the second week of May — or later, depending on how long it takes me to catch up from being gone for RT.

    I’ll still be around on Facebook and Twitter, though.