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As one who carts dead knights off the battlefield, Ari must overcome her past and the desire to remain anonymous to prevent Maribelle from seizing the throne and continuing forty more years of war and destitution.
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Day 3 - The Last Battle
Though some call us lesser names, we call ourselves Ravens. Should a noble or high born warrior fall, for a fee, a Raven ensures a body returns home.
The deathmire of Atawa should have been a Raven’s dream. For every warrior standing, dozens lay dead, mounded together in towers and walls taller than most men. Those left alive piled the bodies in mid battle, desperately needing a barrier between them and the flights of arrows and the charging knights.
Atawa could have been a Raven’s dream, but I arrived a day too late. I passed several Ravens on my way with their carts loaded up with bodies of the wealthy gentry, the real trophies. They piled their carts so high the hooves of their oxen hooves kept sliding, clacking about on the rocks, trying to get enough traction to tug them over the ridge. Those Ravens who left early were the lucky ones. The nobility screwed the rest of us. Once rested and no longer required to fight, many of the remaining warriors opted to personally take home bodies of their fallen companions, leaving us with the remaining nobodies. What work is there for a Raven after Peace?
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Post Writer's Conference
The San Francisco Writers Conference was fantastic. I met with a lot of great writers and just people in general. I learned a lot about the industry and got excellent advice. The biggest hurdle I faced was to nail my manuscript down to a single sentence. Early Sunday morning, while walking to the conference, I totally nailed it and was beaming for most of the day.
“As one who carts dead knights off the battlefield, Ari must overcome her past and the desire to remain anonymous to prevent Maribelle from seizing the throne and continuing forty more years of war
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Year of the Metal Rat 2020
A year ago, I took a class on pitching manuscripts to agents. I learned a great deal about the process of finding an agent and am quite grateful I took the class. I also learned that I had written several books...
I spent a few months tightening a manuscript that I considered the beginning of the bunch. When I tried to write up a pitch for it, I realized that the premise of that book was not as inherently interesting like Ari, my Raven girl who cleans up dead bodies from battlefields. With a goal of landing an agent and
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My Muse and I
I’ve been writing addictively for about six months now.
I’m working on a full novel (series?). It’s long, over 500 pages long and can cleanly be divided into at least three books. It is by far the most beautiful material I’ve ever written, better than the Raven material on this website, and much better than the writing in Kingdom and Curses . I can’t wait to share it. It’s romantic and horrifically violent in a negative way.... I don’t glorify the violence. It’s full of women who are clever and brave and work hard and actually do things; they make decisions
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Welcome Summer Readers
Welcome residents of Santa Cruz County. In an effort to be rid of another box in my house, I've added a free book to all the Little Free Libraries I could find in Santa Cruz county. I'm absolutely honored by your visit to my website. My little book, Kingdoms and Curses , started out on the East Side, then expanded on the West Side, and finally got finished up in the SLV mountains. It truly is a local book...
For my old fans, the Raven's adventures do not end perched on top a mountain... Ready for our Raven's next adventure? I
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