Clancy Pays a Visit to Two Fur-Peeps and A Writer

Clancy found a cure for his cabin fever this week by visiting with the fabulous duo of Sir Poops and Hair Ball, stars of Two Fur-Peeps and A Writer.

We are both so grateful to the fur-peeps and their mom Shelly Arkon for hosting Clancy and letting him do something to earn his keep around here by promoting The Ghosts of Aquinnah. Clancy had such a good time he hasn't been able to stop talking about it, and all his bragging has made Nate very jealous.

Visit us here to see what Clancy got up to with SPAL and HB!

Interviews and Celebrations

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Clancy and I are very excited today because we were both interviewed by some great writer friends.

To start, I was interviewed by the wonderful writer Graeme Ing, who is one of my Untethered Realms co-horts. Graeme is the author of the fantastic Ocean of Dust. You can find my interview on Graeme's blog here. Thanks for this opportunity, Graeme!

Clancy was interviewed by the dynamic duo of Sir Poops and Hair Ball, the fur-kids of Shelly Arkon, who is the author of such great books as Secondhand Shoes and The Partners' Progeny. Find Clancy here at Two Fur-Peeps and A Writer. He and I both send huge thanks to Shelly and her fur-peeps!

Of course, since it's Friday it's also time to Celebrate the Small Things with Vikki at Scribblings of an Aspiring Author.

This week I'm celebrating a few things:

1.) Clancy and I did these fun interviews and now get to be featured on our friends' blogs.

2.) I got my Cincinnati Tails animal rescue blog up and running and am excited about working on that.

3.) I have some good news about my novel The Ghosts of Aquinnah that I hope to be able to share next week.

4.) And, this week was a much better week than last week and I'm feeling 100% better than I was last week at this time. That's always something to celebrate, isn't it?

Happy weekend, all! :)

Small Celebrations

The end of another week means its time to Celebrate the Small Things with Vikki at Scribblings of an Aspiring Author. If you'd like to learn more about this hop and participate, visit Vikki's page and join us here.

I have to admit that this wasn't a good week for me. It started with the first anniversary of the death of my father, and I found that day to be even more difficult than I expected it to be. Between that and some ongoing personal issues, I found myself in a funk and spent most of the week feeling like a bit of a zombie.

But thanks to Vikki's hop I realized today was the perfect day to turn that around and focus on the good parts of the week.

1. I was interviewed by Graeme Ing and my dog Clancy was interviewed by Shelly Arkon and we both had fun doing the interviews. :) We're looking forward to being featured on Graeme's and Shelly's sites sometime soon.

2. I finally made a dent in my TBR list and read great books by two of my wonderful author friends. Lisa Regan's Abberation and Graeme Ing's Ocean of Dust are both fantastic reads!

3. I commissioned the awesome Heather Holden to create pictures of my Polar Night main characters Danny and Aleksei. This was a new experience for me and it was fun to see what Heather created based on the descriptions I gave her. Her pictures are excellent and I'm looking forward to using them to help with my ongoing marketing efforts.

4. I completed my first Rafflecopter giveaway and was amazed at how easy it was to do. I had been kind of intimidated by Rafflecopter and thought sure I would find a way to mess it up if I used it, but I managed to create the giveaway and choose the winner without adding to the abundance of grey hair I already have on my head. Nancy LaRonda Johnson of Writer's Mark won an ebook copy of Polar Night, and I'm grateful to Nancy and everyone else who entered the giveaway and helped make it a success.

I'm glad to put this week behind me but I'm also glad to celebrate the fact that there were quite a few roses among the week's thorns.

I hope everyone has a great weekend!