The first Magic, Mayhem & Monsters: Origins story is up for preorder. Hunter, the first one, is Sunshine Walkingstick’s origin story. Or rather, it’s the tale of how she became a monster hunter. No spoilers, but this is a dark one, and also fills in some details that I think will help readers understand the…Continue reading Preorder Hunter, Sunshine Walkingstick’s Origin Story
Devil’s Branch is here!
Devil’s Branch, the fifth book in the Sunshine Walkingstick Series, is now available! Sunny gets up to her usual hijinks, this time with Greek deities and monsters thrown into the mix. Nora Vargas, from Witch Hollow, also has a huge role to play, plus we hear more about Teus and Miss Jenny as well as…Continue reading Devil’s Branch is here!
Preorder Devil’s Branch, Plus News on Its Release
Devil’s Branch, the fifth novel in the Sunshine Walkingstick Series, is now available for preorder. The official release date is 27 November 2020, which is Black Friday here in the US. I thought readers might need a good story after fighting through crowds (online or off) during early Christmas shopping. This was an interesting story…Continue reading Preorder Devil’s Branch, Plus News on Its Release
Two Cherokee Myths Used in the Sunshine Walkingstick Series
I have always been fascinated by mythology and folk tales of all kinds. When I was a teenager, I devoured every book on mythology that I could get my hands on, mostly in the Greco-Roman traditions as those were what my local libraries stocked. Later, after wandering through other majors, I finally settled on archaeology…Continue reading Two Cherokee Myths Used in the Sunshine Walkingstick Series
Evolving Plots: Sunny and Riley’s Relationship
Over on my personal blog, I just posted a winding overview of a plot thread related to the growing romantic relationship between Sunshine Walkingstick and her boyfriend, Riley Treadwell. As originally conceived, two related scenes in Witch Hollow (Book 4) were supposed to happen in a slightly different way. Go here to discover how those…Continue reading Evolving Plots: Sunny and Riley’s Relationship
Painter Tales
By popular demand (of four people in the Facebook group), here are some tales of panthers, also called mountain lions and cougars. For me, the tales have a distinct beginning, and that beginning is with Foxfire, specifically the issue of Foxfire Magazine that gathered tales of haunts and haints and other folktales of the southern…Continue reading Painter Tales
Monster Bright
I’ve been gearing up for 2020’s workload. Part of that is creating new covers for the Sunshine Walkingstick short stories. If you’ve been poking around the website, you’ve already seen the cover for Death Omen. The covers for the short stories were, let’s face it, a bit scattered visually, so new covers were definitely needed.…Continue reading Monster Bright
The Great Thing about Sunshine
A while back I discussed some of the problems I was having writing continuing stories in the Sunshine Walkingstick Series. Today, I published a new post over on my personal blog discussing some of the things I love about playing in that story world and why I’ve decided to continue writing and sharing Sunny stories.…Continue reading The Great Thing about Sunshine
New Facebook Fan Group
There’s a new group for fans of my books over on Facebook. It’s a small group right now, which lends itself to a certain intimacy for discussions. So far, we’ve got discussions of cryptids, mountain ways, books of various kinds, and, of course, Sunshine. I’m trying to contribute some behind the scenes peeks as readers…Continue reading New Facebook Fan Group
The first Sunshine Walkingstick omnibus is here!
Sunshine Walkingstick Omnibus One, containing the first three books in the series (Greenwood Cove, The Deep Wood, and Cemetery Hill), is now available. The ebook edition is available at Amazon and is part of the Kindle Unlimited program. The paperback edition is available at Amazon and Barnes & Noble. The audiobook edition is available at…Continue reading The first Sunshine Walkingstick omnibus is here!