Month: October 2019

NaNoWriMo 2019 Project: A Matter Of Time

For my NaNoWriMo project I’ve dusted off an older project, Cassandra Sees: A Matter of Time. Here is the blurb: When a Detective Dan Arrington investigating local murders finds a woman who knows more details about them than she should can he believe she got those details from astrology?...

NaNoWriMo 2019 Project: A Matter Of Time

(Beth Turnage Blog) For my NaNoWriMo project I’ve dusted off an older project, Cassandra Sees: A Matter of Time. Here is the blurb: When a...

Lyrical Worlds newsletter–sign up now!

And there it is, hinted at a few weeks ago and now live: the Lyrical Worlds newsletter.Lyrical Worlds will be the key way to get the latest news about my stories, poems, novels, etc. I'll still share links here on the blog, but the monthly newsletter w......

Are We Using the Same Language?

Complex storytelling and how the masters use language differently One of my favorite moments is opening a new novel and experiencing the confusion of reading the first chapter. It’s not a bad confusion in which I’m lost or unable to parse the language. No, it’s like being plunked into...

Rumble in Woodhollow, et al

So…. My latest project, Rumble in Woodhollow (Kindle, print) is now live on Amazon.  It’s the first book in the trilogy The Holly Sisters.   Rumble introduces us to a twenty-two-year-old faery named Sydney.  Sydney is the younger sister of Marla, the leader of the Faery Gang, which is...

New place, same as the old place

Well, look at that. This is a brand new website. One that...looks exactly like the old one, for now anyway. Updating it to http://danielausema.com is just one of the behind-the-scenes things I've been working on.In other news, The Roots of Betrayal&nbs......