Tag: urban fantasy
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No Promises Large Enough Cover Reveal
After I don’t know how many missteps in cover design for my series, The Ghost and the Mask, I finally have a cover that I feel good about for book two, No Promises Large Enough. I decided to embrace the gold standard style for urban fantasy books. Here it is without the back cover text…
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Demon-Huntery
Photo by Some Tale on Unsplash It took me a long time to accept it, but my series, The Ghost and the Mask, is urban fantasy. For years, I complained that Headless, my first book in the series, was too complicated to fit into a single genre. Mostly I called it a supernatural thriller, which is a pretty…
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The Headless Victims
Image by Couleur from Pixabay Quick update! The sequel to Headless, No Promises Large Enough is in the final stages. Really! And I have started on the third book of The Ghost and the Mask series, as well as this… The victims of the serial killer who is now known as the Kofu Head Collector*…
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Okay… Here’s an Update
What am I doing? In my journal here, I’ve started posting Japan-related things that tie-in to my novels, thinking that might interest my readers. But it was nearly crickets on my UFO catcher post last week! Maybe I took a wrong turn. So this week I’m just going to give a quick update on what’s…
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Fish for Breakfast
Image by murakumo28 on Pixabay When I lived with a family in Yokohama back in 2009, we had fish for breakfast every day. While this is an odd concept for most Americans, and, I expect, most Westerners in general, it’s pretty normal in Japan. Being an island nation, fish is definitely a staple protein. The…
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The Snake Woman
Artwork by Matthew Meyer, yokai.com In light of my recent article at Science Fantasy Hub, I thought I would write a bit more about one of the Japanese monsters I use in my book Headless. In Headless, there are three specific monsters that are featured. One of them is from Japanese mythology and the other…
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New Cover Rework
On June 7th, I shared the results of my new cover poll for Headless. And I shared what I planned to do. I decided to combine a couple of the covers by giving one of the illustrations of the characters to the designer who did the most popular cover. And here are the results! Character…
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Which cover do you like best? (poll below)
As we all know, a book really is judged by its cover. At least at first. It catches your eye on the shelf or on the webpage, and you think, “Ooh, THAT looks interesting. What’s it about?” I’ve had the current cover of Headless for a year and a half now, and I’ve gotten some…
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