By Jamie Adams When I was in grade school my best friend lived down the street. (I’ll call her Anna) Anna...
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The Welcome Wagon by Jamie Adams
Welcome Jamie to the blog. How much of the book is based in real life? The setting of The Welcome Wagon is based...
A Rose in Winter by Janis Jakes
Welcome Janis to the blog. What makes this book special to you? This book is special to me because it takes two broken...
Why Write Light of Logan NOW?
By Regina Smeltzer I fell in love with Mr. Charlie the day he arrived in my mind. Old and blind, he sat for hours on...
What Eventually Led to Me to Write The Putting Green Whisperer
No, I’m not a golfer. I do own golf clubs, and I’ve played golf. And golfers have disrupted my life...
The Builders Reluctant Bride from Stacey Weeks
I love how a story is able to convey deep theological truths in a compelling and applicable way. I love being lost in...
The Christmas Child
In my novella, Christmas Child, set in 1891 New York City, adoption plays a significant role. A Christian who’s...
Dark Lake by Clare Revell
Why did you write this particular story? I wrote this for several reasons. The main one being Lou. She just...
The UNBREAKABLE Ruth Buchanan
Unbreakable: A novel of relationships, getaways, teep kicks, bacon, nuptials, and the occasional stabbing As a...
The world has changed forever and so has fashion
The most classic treatment of clothes in The Blackburn Chronicles is the uniform of the those belonging to The Order of the Sword and Scroll. Crimson cloaks and armor breastplates worn by the knights harken back to the centuries old origin of the powerful society. Ashton Wells, spy for the Order, favors a knight’s blade over the more modern tracer gun.
Charlotte Blackburn, the heroin of the series goes through a tremendous transformation from debutante to dissenter and later…t
Weapons of light
Creating the weapons for my YA Steampunk novel, The Tremblers took me on a fascinating path. The invention of destructive devices was vexing and addicting all at once.
Weapons of light — Tracer Guns are the weapon of choice for the soldiers of the Peaceful Union. Powerful blasters that syphon the glowing purple energy from the massive Tesla Domes caging the city-states are feared by the average citizen. Constantly realibrating to the dome’s pulse, they are outlawed to everyone but the soldiers of the government.
A Great Calamity has fractured the whole of America
A Great Calamity has fractured the whole of America toppling the government and killing millions across the entire nation. From the embers rose The Peaceful Union, with its symbol of the dark phoenix that promises protection and order from the chaos and death outside the city-states.
Charlotte blackburn, is a daughter of this new society that huddles beneath the massive churning steamworks of the electric Tesla Domes.