Character – fiction or real?
I always find it interesting when fictional characters are based on real life people. The trilogy I’m working on now is set in the same world as my Keeper Chronicles and will tell the story of the first queen. I’m basing her on the life of Empress Theodora from...Frequentatives – a third time
We’ve chatted about frequentatives twice. Here and here. I discovered a few more frequentatives that I find a little gross. Gross Frequentative #1: spit/spatter So there’s spit, as a normal verb. Even when spitting is talking about oil spitting while you...Frequentatives happening again
Since last week we talked about frequentatives being a word from a verb that happens repeatedly, I thought I’d talk about them more. Repeatedly, actually. For instance, the verb to crack, if it gets repetitive, turns to the frequentative crackle. I found three...Frequentatives, episode 1
Happy Friday! I learned a new grammar term this week: A frequentative is an adjective or a noun that comes from a verb, but describes a repeated action. For instance, sparkle is the frequentative of spark. If you have sparks over and over, you have sparkle. Or,...
Signed paperbacks?
I had several readers ask me this week if there was a way to get signed paperbacks of my books, and the answer is YES! They will cost you $1 million dollars each, cash only. I’m just kidding. I mean, if you want to pay me $1 million, I’m not going to stop you, but you...
Book Cover Award
A Keeper's Tale received a Gold Star Rating for cover design from The Book Designer.