Author: elizabyth
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After finding her husband dead in his chair—as cold and stiff as a Florida iguana after a hard freeze—Tara Bennett has spent her days waiting to join him. Then her oldest friend Frankie shows up uninvited, parks her truck in the flower bed, and produces three bottles of wine and a key on a faded…
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“Young’uns, gather round. I’m gonna tell you a story,” the old Leprechaun began. Several wee ones stopped playing and came close. A few of the older ones followed, although some wore skeptical expressions. The elder was known for telling tall tales—and for occasionally falling asleep while doing so. “Wot now, old man?” one ruddy-faced adolescent…
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Dark. Seductive. Merciless. The night has a new apex predator—and it isn’t a vampire.
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A prequel to Molly Stevens & the Nine Realms, The Griffin’s Feather introduces readers to Molly Stevens, a ten-year-old in a new town who sees herself as a boring girl living a boring life. But an encounter with a grumpy neighbor over seemingly normal flowers changes everything. Soon Molly finds her world filled with leprechauns, sphinxes,…
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Many people choose to fight their personal demons… Gabriel’s demons chose to fight him. Former exorcist Gabriel Wolfe enjoyed a quiet life in Hollywood as a consultant on horror movies until the night he met Oliver Fitzpatrick and his strange sister.
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In the summer of 2018, I made the decision to take a couple of years off from my career as a digital program manager to focus on some self development and pursue a couple of personal goals. One of these goals was to become a yoga teacher. While the intention behind this was to share…
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Trust: the ultimate backbone of a successful high-performing team. While being the foundation and strength, it is also remarkably fragile and difficult to reforge once broken. Part of the challenge of encouraging this when building a team is that trust implies safety, which can be a very personal and complex state of mind.
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A Castle? In the middle of Mississippi? Yep. An honest to God, brick and stone castle with a turret and everything. Right smack in the middle of Jackson MS. We fantasized and joked about this for weeks. What if we bought a castle?
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One of the first responsible things everyone should do when they move to a new state is to get a new drivers license and register to vote. Many states have laws of the books stating that this must be done in a reasonably short period after moving. In Mississippi it’s 30 days.
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As writers, one of the most important jobs we have is to breathe life into characters and describe them to our readers. We need to do this effectively enough so that the picture that forms in our readers’ minds is close to what we envision.