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Recumbentibus: n middle English: a knockout punch or a blow of particular force which knocks your opponent down This is the last installment of the series Faliure's Legacy. After nine novels it was time to turn the light off on this fictional version of Charlotte NC. This story brings Amanda's mental health into focus. Powerful people with immense political influence are working to destroy the emp... » Continue Reading
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After I finished with The Songbird and the Broken Angel, I was done with the series Failure's Legacy. I began to work on a sci/fi novel. Set in the future; a genetically enhanced super soldier from the last war humans waged before agreeing to disarm the planet wakes up in a stasis pod on board a crashed deep space transport. He was going to help set up a colony on Proxima B. Long story short he wo... » Continue Reading
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When I began this book, I told my readers it would be the last book on Hannah Monore's story, they took it to mean I was killing her character. I got an earful. I had never imagined a character I created could come to mean so much to people. Failure's Legacy book 8, The Songbird and the Broken Angel is a dark chapter in the life of Hannah Monroe. After surviving the ordeal in South America by rely... » Continue Reading
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In the 7th book of Failure's Legacy, Tailspin, I needed a catalyst for growth. Mild spoilers ahead, if you haven't read my books or are currently reading the series but haven't read this title, this is your warning. At the start of the book, Hannah is near rock bottom. Her music career has been reignited but her personal life is in shambles. She has been working nonstop for three years, recording... » Continue Reading
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My fifth title Homecoming, begins with Jessica Rae being released from prison with one thing on her mind. Revenge on the people who stole her childhood. Her focus is on Benji the man she met online as a teen who liked her from home and trafficked her. This is just a fun vigilante story as people involved in a human trafficking ring get what's coming to the.. The only thing that kept Jessixa Rae fo... » Continue Reading
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We're going to talk about 4 of my series Failure's Legacy. Finding Jessica is one of my favorite books, in spite of its flaws. I will admit I, should have written book 4 and 5 as a single book. It started that way, it got overwhelming for me so I decided to break it down into two books. The idea was to have Finding Jessia be less about Eric Combs finding his lost love Jessixa Cooper, and more abou... » Continue Reading
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A Fool's Gold the 4th of nine books in my series Failure's Legacy. While this book is supposed to be about Derick Combs on of the paternal twin half siblings it is more so the story of Jermey McDaniels. From a broken home and sent to live with his father Otis who owned a junkyard in rural North Carolina. The junkyard was located behind his father's house and the school bus stopped in front of it t... » Continue Reading
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Before I can move forward and discuss the characters in books 3, 4, and 5, I have to go back to book one, Chasing the Wrong Dream.This is a great example of foreshadowing that can only take place if the author has a clear vision of the future books. While I don't do outlines and character profiles before writing, I have the main points of the story mapped in my head. This scene foretells the revel... » Continue Reading
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I'm still talking about my second novel, in the series Failure's Legacy, Fruit of the Toxic Tree. Earlier I talked about Hannah the youngest of three siblings. Katyra the oldest was a bit boring she failed at being a matriarchal force to pull the family together. Her off again, on again relationship with her husband and her extramarital affairs, while interesting did not move the story. I did use... » Continue Reading
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New writers often ask "where do I begin" when they want to write their first novel. The stock answer is normally "decide what the story is about." I disagree, the first step is to decide "who the story is about." The first book Chasing the Wrong Dream was about Bobby and Jilissa, their quest to form a band and eventually starting a family. No spoilers per say, I'm going to talk about background an... » Continue Reading
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I had an idea in my head for a book series. I wanted to tell a story about ordinary people finding themselves in extraordinary circumstances. I had a problem... I needed the antagonist for the first book. I started to write a prologue to explain how the now deceased parents had made enemies... and came up with the Neo Nazi antagonist. I could not keep it to prolgue length however, so it became a s... » Continue Reading
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