A New Jake Rogers Cover Reveal!
A New Jake Rogers Cover Reveal!

I’m so excited to be helping out with the cover reveal and Kickstarter announcement for this book!

Some of you may remember that Grant and I had Philip Wilder over for an interview on our podcast several months ago. If you haven’t seen that episode, I highly recommend you check it out, we had such a blast chatting with Philip.

Anyway, we were talking about his first novel, Jake Rogers’ Planet, which I have now listened to in audiobook form TWICE (yes, it’s that good) once on my own, and once with my kids, who all loved it as well.

So I am just thrilled to pieces to hear that a sequel to that book is coming soon!

Wanna see the cover?

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Meet Me at Realm Makers!
Meet Me at Realm Makers!

Whew! It’s been a hot minute since I graced the blog with my presence!

I’m so sorry I’ve been so silent here for the past… 2 months! Spring has just become one of the busiest times of the year for me, and trying to release the last book in the Turrim Archive in the middle of all that just wiped me out.

Life just keeps moving forward, and so does time, and here we are in June!

I would love to say that I’m going to try to be more faithful to write posts, but I fear that would just be setting me up for failure and you all for disappointment. I still love blogging and I have all these ideas, I just don’t ever seem to have the time. As my kids get older, I am more and more involved in all of their activities, and what little time I have left over to myself, I actually want to spend it writing books. So the blog may continue to be silent for a while as I work my way through these sweet, busy, eventful years.

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An Evening in the Stormcave: With Guest Benjamin Fife
An Evening in the Stormcave: With Guest Benjamin Fife

Welcome back to another Evening in the Stormcave

Today’s guest on our podcast is none other than Storyteller, Voice Actor, and Narrator Benjamin Fife!

Benjamin has narrated 10 novels for me so far, and I look forward to collaborating with him on many projects in the future, as well.

Come listen in as we chat about The Turrim Archive, audiobooks, and what it takes to be an audiobook narrator!

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Tomorrow Is the Big Day!
Tomorrow Is the Big Day!

Tomorrow is release day!

It feels like the end of an era. I began writing these books back in 2013. I’ve been talking them on the blog as far back as 2017 (possibly earlier, it’s hard to do an exact search for when I started talking about The Orb and the Airship, but I found posts dating in 2017). I’ve been thinking about this series since 2005 when my husband first started building the world and creating Dalmir and Grayden as characters.

And tomorrow, the journey ends. The final bell tolls. The fifth and final book in this sweeping, epic, won’t-stay-in-a-box series releases tomorrow.

And I’m a little bit unsure how to feel about it.

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The Pendragon Cycle: Rise of the Merlin Review
The Pendragon Cycle: Rise of the Merlin Review

Taliesin by Stephen R. Lawhead was one of the first fantasy books I read all by myself.

My dad had already read me The Chronicles of Narnia, The Spirit Flyer Series, The Prydain Chronicles, The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings… and I had already fallen in love with the genre. I can’t tell you how many times I read and re-read The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings (especially The Two Towers) over and over after he read them to us the first time.

But Taliesin was a gift from some family friends who, upon hearing that I liked fantasy, handed me a copy and told me I would love it.

I was 12.

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