News & Updates

New foreign covers for Splintered Series!

🦋🎩The brilliant Dutch publisher for my Splintered Series, BOEKERIJ, has pulled out all the creative stops and remade the covers with lots of whimsical #Wonderland touches and enchanting colors. Also, check out the sprayed edges … I’ve been waiting so long for that special touch to my books! Just look at these beauties! I can’t wait to have author copies to hold in my greedy little hands.
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Fun fact # 1: Titles and cover tag lines are literal translations from the English versions.
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Giveaway Winners!

Thank you to everyone who helped celebrate the pinterest + title reveal for Seasons of Flesh and Flame, book 2 in my ya fantasy shades of rust and ruin duology! Check out the image for the Winners chosen by random.org.🍀 Those who won, please send me a private message from FB or IG with your mailing info so I can send the prizes your way.
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To everyone else, hang tight. I have announcement later this week about my  Haunted Hearts Legacy series, and there are more Seasons Of Flesh And Flame reveals and giveaways coming your way very soon, including the beautiful cover art by Marcela Bolívar (@tropicalgloom)! 🖤

A few hours left in preorder campaign!

🎃👑 There are less than ten hours left to preorder #ShadesofRustandRuin and be entered for a chance to win this collector’s edition, crafted and curated by me! With its sprayed edges, removable grunge Halloween “Jacket-tat” (jacket tattoo slipcover), dyed/textured interior, and bookmark bungee, it’s eerily unique. And it will be autographed with a personal note to the winner! Also, in keeping with the holiday theme, an adult #Halloween coloring book will be included with this #prize. 🎨
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Best of all, everyone who completes the online form showing a qualified proof of purchase receives a free character flipcard of Nix and the #GoblinKing just for preordering! 🎁 Simply click this link to visit the Bloomsbury online entry form. And to all who’ve already preordered, thank you and good luck!
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Finished writing my newest novel!

Today, although summer’s around the corner, I’ve been swept away by the autumn spirit . . . partly because of the gloriously dreary weather we’ve been having here in Amarillo lately (overcast and rainy days are a rare occurrence indeed!), but much more because I FINALLY FINISHED WRITING MY WiP, MYSTIQUIEL, a young adult urban fantasy set during the Halloween season! 🎃👻

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  • This is book one of a duology. The working title is “Mystiquiel: Of Rust and Ruin”
  • Premise: On Halloween night, seventeen-year-old Phoenix Loring, an amateur graphic novelist still grieving the death of her sister, steps from modern-day Astoria, Oregon into a portal—leading to a dark fairyland that appears to be born of her own imagination—where she must face a mercurial goblin king’s maze to rescue the people she loves. 😈👑
  • The portal world is described by Nix herself as “an industrial-faerie dreamscape” and the goblins and faeries as “part magic, part lore, and part mechanism.” Think: Goblin Market meets Labyrinth with cyberpunk/horror elements.
  • Why did I choose Astoria for my MC’s hometown? For one, The Goonies movie was filmed in the port city; there’s also a trolley tour, shops and art galleries, brewpubs, and misty mountains, beaches, and forests galore. This all adds up to a beautiful, unique, and gloomy atmosphere—the perfect parallel to my Goblin King’s domain.

Manuscript writing stats—Started writing the book proposal (first 100 pages and a 7-page synopsis) in late fall 2019; sent proposal out to publishers in June 2020; sold the book on proposal July 2020; completed MS May 2021; Final word count: 105,505 (approx. 420+ pages).

I’ll be posting insights into the story, setting, characters, and creatures over the next few months. Until then, I’m going to catch up on some pleasure reading in hopes to make a dent in my TBR tower. 😊

The Wisdom of Blood paperbacks are here!

At long last, the #paperback version of #TheWisdomofBlood is now available for purchase (thanks to everyone for your patience)! For buying options, go here.

Also, the English version of the paperback will be available for international purchase at BookDepository.com soon. I’ll update my ordering options page once it is.

SIDE NOTE: I’ll be having a giveaway in a few weeks to celebrate, and will make it a foreign affair this time so anyone can enter. Keep an eye out for that!

Until then, the due date for my Goblin Market/Labyrinth inspired ya-lit urban fantasy is nipping at my heels, so I’ll be laying low online to pound out the last part of the book. Happy reading to everyone, and I’ll see you soon!

My Bloody Valentine Giveaway

Welcome to My Bloody Valentine Giveaway, in celebration of Valentine’s Day and The Wisdom of Blood’s ebook birthday! 🎂🧛🏻💝🦇💟

Check out the prizes up for grabs below, then be sure to enter the rafflecopter for a chance to win one!

a Rafflecopter giveaway

PLEASE NOTE: This is a domestic giveaway only. I can’t afford the foreign S&H right now, but I will have a smaller foreign giveaway soon when money’s not so tight, so all my readers will have a chance to win something then!

Good luck to all who enter, and don’t forget to purchase my ebook today, if you’re up for a darkly romantic read. 💋 You can find a free excerpt and buying options on the book’s landing page here. And if you’re waiting for the paperback version, it will be launching in a couple of weeks. I’ll let everyone know here when it’s ready for ordering.