If you spend any time at my house, you realize pretty quickly that we spend a lot of time in the kitchen. So the chairs in the kitchen are very important. The table we picked up at an antique store and it came with three chairs. Shawn uses an office chair and lately I have dragged in one of our king size porch chairs to sit on. I could make…

This always has a few spoilers, so if you are concerned about learning something in advance, look away! Aside from our entire cast of characters, in book 7 we add a few more. Mox and Fost are by far the most obvious, but also Phriss, pronounced Friss, is added to the Combined Territories. Mox, mate to Brom, she is a disease healer, different from LeeAnn; but just as impressive. She…

In the NewEarth Series books, the idea of being deceptive is not necessarily bad. In fact it is considered a talent for some, but a skill that requires practice for everyone. The ability to deceive an enemy is important, to distract from an action, and to distract someone to allow for something else. Treating deception like a skill takes the humans by surprise, but not because it is not a…