Each Christmas, I fill my wish list with books to read during the upcoming year. This year, I received a small stash, which I look forward to tackling. Check out my reading list, and then enter the giveaway at the end of this post for a chance to win The …
I’m excited to kick off my blog tour this week. I’m touring my two most recent young adult works: The Man with the Crystal Ankh (perfect for this haunting time of year) and The Girl Who Flew Away, a literary coming-of-age novel. Each stop offers the chance to win a $10 Amazon gift card …
Battle of the Books This year, I was honored that Loudoun County Public Schools chose my novel The Scarred Letter as one of its ten Battle of the Books selections. Battle of the Books is a competition in which students at all high schools across the county compete by reading …
Today I’m featuring mystery writer Judy Penz Sheluk. Check out her guest post below, and then read about how to enter to win one of her books! As a mystery writer, I’m often asked where I get my ideas. The answer to that varies by the story, although I’ll admit …
So many people have been talking about and posting about how happy they are that it is summer–and many of them primarily because summer affords us the time to do one of my favorite activities: Read. When I was a kid, my dad built me a treehouse. I remember …
While I planned to write Corgi Capers 3 over the summer, a fortunate influx of writing projects (Forging Freedom anthology and some other exciting forthcoming projects I’ve written or edited) has put me behind schedule. Looking at my upcoming schedule, it looks like I’ll be writing Corgi Capers 3 in …
To celebrate the one year anniversary of my sci-fi/speculative/romance collection, I’m hosting a tour and giveaway! In this time-travel novella incorporating sweet romance and science fiction, Anna, a young graduate student, has found her intellectual soul mate. She and Dr. Thomas Wellesley, forty years her senior, have been working on …
This is a fun, quirky middle-grade book (the first book in the Evertaster series) following Guster, an eleven-year-old picky eater. Guster is always hungry; his nickname is “capital P” because that’s what he looks like—a stick with a head on it. He simply won’t eat sub-par food. The descriptions of …
Want to read Faulkner’s Apprentice? Head over to Goodreads to sign up for the book giveaway Faulkner’s Apprentice by Val Muller Giveaway ends May 14, 2013. See the giveaway details at Goodreads. Enter to win!
On January 26, 2011, I was stuck in a snowstorm for 12 hours–alone in my car. On January 26, 2012, the first book in the Corgi Capers series was published. Now, on January 26, 2013, I’m celebrating the anniversary of the book’s launch with a month of giveaway. Head over …