Category: Updates
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Transparency & The Hero’s Journey
“Some people never go crazy. What truly horrible lives they must lead.” ~ Charles Bukowski Transparency You may have noticed I went radio-silent for most of last year. If you’re reading this, you may be one of those lovely people who’s become invested in the stories I tell. First of all, thank you. I haven’t…
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2018 #TBR Booklist
Do you ever lose track of the books you’re planning to read? It happens to me all the time. Like any good bibliophile, much of my life revolves around books: finding them, buying them, even writing them. Some books slip through the cracks the moment they hit my Kindle. Often they are books I actively…
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August, 2017
The last month of summer… Where I live, August is the last real month of summer. School starts up at the end of it, so the first few weeks are a whirlwind of backpack shopping, trips to the beach and The Boardwalk, and last-minute weekend getaways. My own last-minute getaway took the form of a…
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July, 2017
Summer is winding down… Fall is my favorite time of year. The changing of the seasons always brings a unique, mutable kind of energy, but fall has a special magic all its own. It is a magic of opposites: even as the natural world is dying down and preparing for winter, there is a zip…
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Voodoo, vampires… Emil & Puzzle are back!
“Are we rescuing the Holy Grail from some Nazis? Infiltrating a top-secret loup garou smuggling ring? Do I get to carry my own sword?” – Thicker Than Water (Shades Below Shorts, #2) Emil and Puzzle are back! Vampires, voodoo curses, and one wild New Orleans adventure await you in the newest Shades Below Short. Thicker…
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Shades Below Is Leaving #KU!
Announcement time! Shades Below is leaving the Kindle Unlimited program! For the first time, the Shades Below series will be available on iTunes, Nook, Kobo, and other ebook retailers! If you get your reading material from sites other than Amazon, now you’ll be able to find the Shades Below books at your online shop of choice.…
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Shades Below Got A Facelift!
Happy New Year! In honor of 2017, the Shades Below tribe got a makeover! Seriously though, I’m too obsessed with these new covers. Is that weird? Probably. Whatever. Feast your eyeballs on these pretties… “There are things that go bump in the night, Mr. MacMillian. It’s my job to bump back.” Private investigator Jesper MacMillian…
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November, 2016: SPECIAL EDITION #MondayBlogs
Happy Holidays! Welcome to a special edition monthly update! What’s so special about it, you ask? Prepare your eyeballs, because today you get a super-exciting FIRST LOOK at the next Shades Below novel, If You Were My Vampire! You may have noticed I haven’t been around the Internet much lately. In case you missed…
L.J.K. OLIVA 