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Lots of Hanna’s cooking are things I learned to cook as a child, or things I cooked during other phases of my life. Many of the recipes are straight from my mother’s kitchen. The tea recipes are of my own creation, or something I have bought and recreated out of whole ingredients. A fall favorite…

“Do your dragons have six limbs?” Someone recently asked. And yes they do, two arms, two legs and of course their wings. Some of the other creatures on NewEarth also have six limbs, the pinarts for example, and the lopers. Other animals have four, like the gibber, hens, or the hopper. My dragons are mammals,…

Porter feels somewhat paternal towards Zack. He has provided a lot of guidance as Zack matured, not only protecting and practicing with him, but teaching him along with Grabon and Heron and the rest of the clan. Porter was in many ways, Zack’s person. If you have ever been in that position you know it…

SPOILER🤦‍♀️ Bryon, my promotion and tech wizard guy of extraordinary powers, suggested I put some kind of warning for spoilers. So consider yourself warned if you have not read book 6 and intend to, this post may contain information you would rather learn in the story. That being said, Heron claims the second territory and…

Gordon is the type of character that sometimes makes you want to grit your teeth, because he exudes male arrogance, yet whenever Hanna needs anything, he simply does it. His power and size should scare Hanna to death after all she has been through, but truthfully, nothing seems to scare her much besides a storm…

I sent off The Hunter yesterday to Jo, my editor. It is the story of Brom, his place in Grabon and Heron’s clan, and the mate that comes to complete him. It has a few other stories woven inside, a few more characters that are introduced, and it expands some familiar characters so the reader…

You may have noticed that NewEarth does not escape natural disasters. In book 1 there is a sudden storm that moves from warm autumn temperatures to sudden winter cold. In another book there is a swarm of bugs that eats everything in their path. And the driving snow storms play a key role in several…