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Death by Disguise 2023 Maine Literary Awards Finalist
I’m so pleased to be able to announce that DEATH BY DISGUISE has been chosen as a finalist for the 2023 Maine Literary Awards! https://www.mainewriters.org/events/2023-finalists The Maine Literary...
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Death by Disguise, MLA Winner
I am honored and delighted to be able to share that Death by Disguise won the 2023 Maine Literary Award for Speculative Fiction. I was not expecting that at all! I was honored enough to be named as a...
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Praise for Death by Disguise
I wanted to share some quotes from the jurors who read Death by Disguise for the Maine Literary Awards. “Bates delivers an absolutely worthy read that blends its dual genres of fantasy and cozy mystery...
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Magic Most Deadly Redux
Ten years ago this September, I published my first novel. It was a pretty good debut novel! But … it suffered from quite a lot of the issues that can plague first-time novelists. Such as trying to...
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Read-Alike Books to Whitney and Davies
Here is a fun challenge for fans of the Whitney & Davies series! If you’ve read any of the books in this series, what other reasonably current books/series would you say have a similar feel? So...
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Don’t Miss the Upcoming Sale!
Running from August 18-23, all three novels currently published in the Whitney & Davies series will be on sale for $0.99 each! This sale is part of the “Beloved SFF Sale,” which is near and dear...
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Beloved SFF Sale is LIVE Now!
Once again, Glamours & Gunshots is part of the Epic Sale of Beloved SFF–over 50 books personally recommended by someone who read and loved them. This is my favorite sale of the year, so I’m...
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Whew. I’m remembering, now that the fall semester has started, the main reason why I wanted to keep the Magic Most Deadly Rewrite simple and have it finished by the time September hit. It wasn’t just...
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Important Upcoming Dates – Don’t Miss!
We’ll start with the biggest news–the second edition of Magic Most Deadly will be released on November 1st, 2023. Hurray! This means that the first edition will be archived and no longer available on...
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Pre-Order Magic Most Deadly Now
Magic Most Deadly–the new edition–will be released on November 1st, but you can pre-order your e-book edition right now! Available at Amazon, Barnes & Noble, Kobo, and many more! Click here to...
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Julia’s Story
I took the month of January off from social media (and fiction reading, which was much, much harder), in part because I was hoping it would give me the time and space I needed to start figuring out...
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