Happy Book Birthday!

This morning I got the final cover for THE DRAGON THIEF! Geneva B has knocked it out of the park again, but it’s a little disorienting to be celebrating the publication of the FIRST book as the SECOND book is being prepared for Fall 2019. And, of course, I had to complicate matters by self-publishing a MG novel as well…we’re still working on the cover for CIN’S MARK and I’m still revising but hope to have it ready in early November. In some ways this novel is a remix of SHIP OF SOULS; I wrote that story in 2010 and changed the ending when a friend suggested it would be upsetting to kids. But in CIN’S MARK, the Black boy protagonist makes the choice I originally wanted D to make. I look at where I am in my life—and where I have been—and realize I’m at the crossroads. It’s agonizing to sit through another election season without the ability to vote. My birthday is on Friday and I’m asking friends who are able to VOTE. Do it so we can turn this country around; do it for all the children suffering under the Trump effect; do it for folks like me who live and work here and care about this country but have no voice on the 6th. Folks online were super excited about DRAGONS IN A BAG, and I think a bit of whimsy and magic is just what the doctor ordered with everything that’s happening in the real world. But magic is ultimately about POWER, so please use the power you have and VOTE if you can!