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Whispers & Wands includes cozy crimes and fantasy stories including romcom and historical romance.
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- 13
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- Sep 25, 2026
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- Jul 17, 2026
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Start Where the Love Started (opens the original)
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You can invent faster-than-light travel, artificial consciousness, colonies beneath alien suns, bodies grown in laboratories, and civilizations that have survived for ten thousand years—and then give two people one problem humanity still hasn’t solved:How do you love someone without knowing what comes next?Maybe that’s why I love the intersection of romance and science fiction so much.On the surface, the genres can seem almost opposite.Science fiction looks outward. It asks what happens when tec
Behind the Thriller: How One Bad Idea Became a Seven-Book Series (opens the original)
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What Makes You Keep Reading a Thriller: The Character, the Plot, or the World? (opens the original)
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Black Dust, Mammoth Steaks, and Other Terrible Ideas I’ve Had Lately (opens the original)
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Apparently, when I sit down to write a thriller, I have two questions:What is the worst thing that could happen?And then:How can I make it worse?This has resulted in two very different projects occupying my writing life lately.One involves a deadly organism that humanity thought it had defeated.The other involves an exclusive restaurant where billionaires can eat extinct animals.First, There Was Black DustThe original Black Dust was about a global biological threat created by two enemy countries
What If the Alien Legends Aren’t Legends? (opens the original)
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