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Angel of the L Train by Penelope Marzec

New from Penelope Marzec I wrote Angel of the L Train because I understand how important it is to forgive others. God offers his forgiveness to everyone and as Christians we are bound to offer forgiveness to others....

Redemption’s Hope by Kathleen D. Bailey

Welcome Kathleen to the blog. What is your writing schedule like? In flux What would you say is your interesting writing quirk? Hot Earl Grey tea in a china cup How did you come up with your title? The first two books had "Hope" in their titles, and...

How The Welcome Wagon rose from the ashes

By Jamie Adams   When I was in grade school my best friend lived down the street. (I’ll call her Anna) Anna was a year older than me and went to the middle school with my sister. Anna would come to our house before school to meet up with my sister. When the...
The world has changed forever and so has fashion

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

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Weapons of light

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.

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