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    Read the Alternate Ending for The Phoenix and The Wolf

    It was a week before I was supposed to send the manuscript to my editor and my hands hovered over the keys of my computer. My characters were screaming that I don’t have the ending right, but this was the ending I had planned from when I very first finished The Earthspark. Tellen and Nienna…

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    I almost killed my favorite character

    Last week I shared some of the deleted scenes from The Phoenix and The Wolf, but this week I want to share another tidbit you may not have known. I nearly killed off Teague in this book! It was so close because it brought such emotional weight to the story and really made the final…

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    Deleted Scenes from The Phoenix and The Wolf

    Deleted scenes, whether in movies or books are some of my favorites. I love to see what was a good enough idea that the author wrote it, or the producers filmed it, but either due to pacing, length, or some other reason was cut from the final product. Here are a few such scenes that…

  • Deleted Scene from the Queen of the Night

    The two scenes I’m sharing today were the last two to be deleted before the release of The Queen of the Night. While both were very emotionally tied to my narrative, they ultimately got cut because they dragged the pacing and other scenes conveyed this information better. So I hope you enjoy this peek at…

  • Deleted scenes Book 2

    AUTHOR NOTE*** This scene is an alternate version of Chapter 14 – Visions of the Past. I rewrote this scene because it didn’t build the story’s momentum. However, I still wanted to share it with you to showcase some of the other abilities and characters found throughout this series. With that, I hope you enjoy…

  • The Deleted Chapter that Almost Changed My Series…

    The scene you are about to read came from the original ending I’d sent to my editor. At that point, my plan was to rewrite my first book, scraping the whole beginning because I felt like things moved too slow. I almost did it. Then, I thought about how several of my readers had commented…