FAMILY Isis, one of the four children Geb and Nut (Sky and Earth) and a main character in Colleen’s new novella and companion to the Reawakened series.  In Reignited you learn Colleen’s version of how Isis and Osiris fall in love and get married.  Knowing their love was forbidden they ran away to a place where no one could stall their plans.  Knowing they would have to confess to what they had done, they went before Amun-Ra to confess their joy.  Their happiest day soon turned into tragedy at the hand of Set who saw Isis as his …

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One more month, just one more month until the official release of REUNITED, the final book in the REAWAKENED saga! Happy 4th of July everyone! There is much to celebrate this summer. My latest book in the REAWAKENED series is being released AUGUST 8th! There will be a LAUNCH PARTY that night (see details below). I just finished a TOP SECRET book that may be published Fall of 2018! Watch for reveals in upcoming months. It’s a BIG one! I’ve received the mock up book cover designs for TIGER’S DREAM! It’s happening my tiger fans, Spring of 2018 can’t come soon enough! ~ Colleen …

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Word Clouds   I’ve had a lot of fun playing with word clouds recently on a website called Tagul. I’ve been able to download my entire book into a program that looks for the most common words in the manuscript and then creates a word cloud for it. This just proves there is an app for pretty much everything. It’s pretty cool to see what words rise to the forefront. I’ve kept these clouds pretty much intact and just threw out hyphenated words that don’t make sense and then moved the title of the book to the highest setting so …

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Write What You Love by Sarah Beth Durst   I want to tell you about my least favorite bit of writing advice: “Write what you know.” Bleck.  No. Well… that is… not exactly.   Okay, maybe there’s some truth to it, but here’s the sneaky little secret with that old chestnut: what you know at the start of writing a novel is entirely different from what you know at the end of it.  By the end of it, you’ve written about what you know.  It’s just you didn’t know it on page one.   The act of writing is an …

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When I first think of Unicorns I remember the movie titled “The Last Unicorn” released in 1982.  I can still hear the song in my mind.  If you haven’t seen the film I would suggest you take the time and watch the graceful kind unicorn run through the forest with her companion like the less than skilled magician, a brave knight, and a evil old unicorn hunter. Unicorns have not lost their magical pull on the young and old.  We find them in modern movies like Harry Potter when Voldemort used the unicorns blood to stay alive.  They are even …

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