My Gift to You: Wolf's Claim and Wolf's Heart Free for a limited time!

 Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays!

For a limited time 

December 23 - December 27, 2021

Wolf's Claim and Wolf's Heart are free!

Wolf's Claim Blurb

Life isn't easy for a new-made werewolf

When human-raised Nate mates with Janelle and becomes Alpha to the Texas Ranch Wolf Pack, he knows his life has changed forever.

He just doesn't know how much . . ..

Then the Were Council, Rulers of Were, decrees death to an entire werepanther clowder for crimes their dead Queen committed.

As a cop, Nate defended helpless people.

When the new Queen asks Nate for sanctuary, how can he turn her away?

But it isn't easy combining a pack of werewolves and a clowder of werepanthers when both sides fear the other.

Especially when Lycos, ancient King of Were appears . . ..

Wolf's Heart Blurb

Wolf shifters trusting vampires? Just not done. Or is it?

Wolf shifter Jonathan is on his way home from San Antonio when he finds a wrecked car with an unconscious woman behind the wheel.

Stacy, cold-blooded vampire that she is, quickly succumbs to the below-freezing temps after wrecking her car in an attempt to avoid hitting a doe.

She's never met a shifter before. Trusting him isn't a good idea.

The only vampire Jonathan ever met who didn't try to kill him was General Brighton. Trusting Stacy isn't smart.

Falling in love isn't smart, either.

Take care and stay safe,

Texas Ranch Wolf Pack Series

Kindle Unlimited Membership Plans

Happy Holidays: Wolf's Destiny Available in Paperback

Peace and joy to you and your loved ones. 

Wolf's Destiny

As promised, Wolf's Destiny has been reformatted into a paperback 7X10 format. 

This size was required by the number of pages in the Wolf's Victory paperback edition (coming soon), since it has too many pages to print in a smaller edition. 

To ensure the two looked right on the bookshelf, I decided to make both the same size. 

As of today (12-13-2021), there's time to get this delivered before Christmas!

I'll do my best to finish reformatting Wolf's Victory in time for Christmas orders, too, but I can't promise.

Take care and stay safe,

Texas Ranch Wolf Pack Series

Kindle Unlimited Membership Plans

Cyber Week Sale--Ends December 4, 2021

Cyber Week Sale

Have you been thinking about getting the first box set in the Texas Ranch Wolf Pack Series? If so, now is the time. Through December 4, 2021, Wolf's Destiny is half-price!

Regularly priced at $9.98, this e-book set is now

$4.99 for a limited time!

Blurb:

Werewolves and other shifters aren't real. Right?

Wolf's Man
When a gorgeous woman attempts to car-jack Detective Nate Rollins to escape the two men hunting her, his life changes. Forever.

After he gets her away from the gun-toting men chasing her, he considers arresting her. First, he wants answers. Answers she's forbidden to give him.

Now, creatures he never knew existed are after them both.

But Nate has a secret even he doesn’t know. A secret that throws them both into more danger.

His old life is over. Can he survive his new one?

Is he ready for the truth?

Wolf's Claim
When human-raised Nate mates with Janelle and becomes Alpha to the Texas Ranch Wolf Pack, he knows his life will change. 

He just doesn't know how much...

Then the Were Council decrees death to an entire panther shifter clowder for crimes their dead Queen committed. 

As a cop, Nate defended helpless people.

When the new Queen asks Nate for sanctuary, he can't turn her away.

It isn't easy combining a pack of wolves and a clowder of panthers when both sides fear the other. 

Especially when Lycos, the ancient King of Were appears...

Wolf's Mission
The president's life depends on the rescue of a werewolf...

Huntsmen capture a werewolf's daughter to force him to commit treason.

To prevent the president's assassination, and war, Nate, a powerful Alpha, and his foster-brother Eli, a human changeling werewolf, must save her. 

With just two days to rescue her and stop the Huntsmen's dire plan, the two werewolves, rush to rescue her. 

For two centuries, the Huntsmen are only stories that frighten young werewolves. 

But the Huntsmen are real...

And if they succeed, a human/shifter war may erupt. 

Eli and Nate strive to prevent the war the Huntsmen are attempting to start. 

If not, the future may be drenched in the blood of innocents.

Wolf's Huntsman
Huntsmen intend to take over the U.S. government. 

Nate and Eli, both elite soldiers and Royal Alpha werewolves, strive to assert their dominance over all shifters to safeguard them from this hidden foe.

Events culminate in the discovery of a plot so insidious, so catastrophic that it will poise all shifters on the brink of annihilation and thrust humankind into perpetual servitude.

Wolf's Trust
Evil must be contained. Compromised Huntsmen must die...

When a Huntsman is captured by werewolves, the Huntsman Triumvirate sends Zoe to kill the compromised hunter and destroy the pack.

But Zoe learns the Huntsmen aren't the saviors of humankind she believes them to be. 

Will she follow her heart to help the pack in their efforts to stop the Triumvirate?

Or will she blindly follow orders to destroy the pack?

Wolf's Reign
Nate never wanted to be king.

But not even kings get everything they want.

Duty prevails.

Rogue vampires have built an army of Huntsmen to destroy the shifters, leaving humanity vulnerable to enslavement. 

Nate’s first royal duty is to save the were - and humanity - from this evil scourge. 

Nate is already struggling to control the half-wolf, half-human Lycos within him when it rejects his mate. 

Now Nate must protect his family from himself. 

If he can save his family from the Lycos... 

If he can get all the shifters to accept him as their king...

If he can save humanity from the Huntsmen...

Maybe, just maybe, he can be the king he was born to be.

Werewolves, werepanthers, werelions, vampires, and more!

The Texas Ranch Wolf Pack series is a clean paranormal romance.

A Late Thanksgiving Wish

 A Very Happy Late Thanksgiving Wish!

My apologies for posting this greeting late. I hope you had a great holiday with your family and didn't get overwhelmed with all the good food. My family enjoyed a get-together for a traditional Thanksgiving meal, then we adjourned to my daughter's home for a family game night.

Over the next seven days, I plan to finish formatting the paperback editions of Wolf's Destiny and Wolf's Victory and get them published. I'll drop a note here to let you know when they are available.

Enjoy the holiday season.

Take care and stay safe,

Texas Ranch Wolf Pack Series

Making Kilts--The Plot Thickens

 Wedding Bells, Pleated Kilts, and Plotting

My daughter, Susan, who writes as Arwen Chandler, and I have been making kilts. My granddaughter is marrying a man of Scottish descent, and all the men in the wedding party are wearing kilts. So, we're making them. (Never say we do anything the easy way!)

The groom's kilt is black, while the officiant, groomsmen, and usher are wearing burgandy kilts. This is the first time we've made kilts, or anything else with pleats. We're also making two plaid kilts for the little ones who share ring bearer responsibility. 

It's been an experience. Basically, it took a week just to figure out the pattern instructions. I couldn't begin to tell you how many times we pleated and unpleated until we figured it out. Then we realized the instructions were incorrect, and they were all 10 inches too small in the waist. So, more adjustments.

Finally, we learned how to make them the right size, so the last two will be much easier than the others. While we were doing all this, making matching sporrans, and sock flashes, we spent time discussing plots.

Years ago, I started a science fiction series, The Griwaldy Chronicles that I never completed, based on The Viper Pit, a space opera short story. Susan has a series called the Pleiades Adventures, in which a female space pirate has adventures fighting against the Militarian, the military government in her quadrant of space. 

While talking about the two characters, my Captain Griwaldy and her Gwyn Casteliano, polar opposites, we thought about how fun it would be if somehow they met and had an adventure together. Well, not together, since they are on opposite sides. Someone wins, someone loses. We decided to go for it. We have about ten thousand words written in the book, so we're well on the way. 

Anyway, we started this collaboration months ago, and it was sidetracked due to so many different issues. Now, we've decided to go forward with it. Much of the time we spent pleating kilts, we spent talking through plot ideas and plot points. It won't come out this year, but hopefully, after I get two other projects completed, including Tala Ridge Hunt and Not For Sale, this series will be on the fast track. 

We're writing book one together. Then Susan will take her characters back to her quadrant of the universe for adventures. I will take my quadrant containing the Empire and write new adventures. The cross-over characters will occasionally pop into each other's stories. Hopefully, we'll have other book collaborations, too. All this will, of course, occur after the October 30th wedding.

Ariana is the first of Susan's children to marry, and my first grandchild to marry, so it's been a whirlwind to prepare. And, as stressful as it's been, and will be for another week, it's been fun to spend so much time with my daughter, talking, laughing, sewing, and plotting. Life is good.

Take care and stay safe,

Texas Ranch Wolf Pack Series

Panther's Task is a Puzzle

Panther's Task Puzzle

Panther's Task, now available on Amazon, is a puzzle!

Anytime I complete and publish a new book or short story, I enjoy making online jigsaw puzzles out of the covers.

I share these with my readers, and on the rare occasion when I forgot to get the puzzle done in a timely manner, my readers let me know!

Enjoy!

Blurb

Be careful what you wish for...

Good advice eighteen-year-old Adrian doesn't take.

When his best friend mates a dragon shifter and moves to another realm, Adrian feels a little lost.

When his younger sister is named heir to the queen, he wonders what his future holds for him.

All he wants is some adventure.

Then a human girl follows him into the woods asking for the impossible...

---

Take care and stay safe,

Texas Ranch Wolf Pack Series

Panther's Task: A Short Story in the TRWP Panther Clowder

 Panther's Task

Panther's Task

Panther's Task, a new short story in the Texas Ranch Wolf Pack (TRWP) World: Panther Clowder series, is up for pre-order! 

If you prefer to wait until the actual sale date, you can get it on August 17!

Occasionally, throughout the rest of the year (2021), I plan to write and release short stories about the characters in the Texas Ranch Wolf Pack Series. 

This is Adrian Paddock's story.

Adrian is Marsha's older brother. 

Her story is in Panther's Choice and is alluded to in Panther's Task.

I am still working on Tala Ridge Hunt, but it's not at a place where I am confident in setting up a pre-order. 

Pre-order deadlines are firm and can't easily be changed, if at all. 

Blurb:

A Young Adult Paranormal Shifter Story

Be careful what you wish for...

Good advice eighteen-year-old Adrian doesn't take.

When his best friend mates a dragon shifter and moves to another realm, Adrian feels a little lost.

When his younger sister is named heir to the queen, he wonders what his future holds for him.

All he wants is some adventure.

Then a human girl follows him into the woods asking for the impossible...

---

Who's story do you want to see next? I still have lots of options for writing about the Texas Ranch Wolf Pack. Do you prefer to know more about the wolves or the panthers or the bears? What about the two bear-shifter girls that got caught up in the trafficking ring in Wolf's Queen? 

Let me know...

Take care and stay safe,

 

Texas Ranch Wolf Pack Series

Texas Ranch Wolf Pack: The Alpha King's Medallion

 Nate's Medallion

The Alpha's Medallion

Throughout the Texas Ranch Wolf Pack books, Nate wears his father's medallion which he was given in Wolf's Man.   

The exact appearance of the medallion isn't described, except that it is bronze. 

Since Snarl (Thorkell Leifsson), the ancient wolf shifter, is a Viking, the medallion is probably Norse. This medallion I found on Amazon looks about right.

The runes on this medallion are known as Vegvisir and were believed by the Vikings to protect and guide wayfarers.

This would make the Vegvisir work perfectly since Nate's father gave him the first one to protect him from the wolves hunting him. The other three he wears were spoils of the battle with his evil uncle in Wolf's Claim. 

In Wolf's Mission, Eli, Nate's foster- (later adopted-) brother also wears a medallion, though he can only wear one.

Is this similar to what you thought of when you read of Nate's medallion(s)? There are other possibilities below.

Other Possibilities

There are other designs that might work, too. Which is your favorite? The one above, or one of these?

Let me know which you think would work best.

Take care and stay safe,

Texas Ranch Wolf Pack Series

Book Review: Fight Like a Girl: Writing Fight Scenes for Female Characters

Writing Female Characters in Fight Scenes

Writing fight scenes is one of the most difficult aspects of writing fiction. Writing fight scenes for female characters is even more difficult. Especially, when you are not a trained fighter. If you're not careful, the scene comes across as a step-by-step, clinical action sequence rather than a cohesive, exciting encounter.

Fight Like a Girl is just what I needed to understand the difference in how men and women fight. The writing exercises give you a foundation to start with so that you aren't trying to pull a scene from the air while learning. 

She not only provides easy-to-follow examples, she critiques fight scenes in other books and explains why and how the attack or defense used would or would not work. And her humor makes a book that could be dry and boring fun to read.

Detailing the factual differences men and women use in fighting is so helpful. Due to being (usually) smaller and less strong than men, women just don't have the muscle mass to fight the same way men do. That doesn't mean women can't fight effectively, though. This book helps the untrained writer to write scenes that are realistic, yet exciting and engrossing.

I keep this book on my desk along with my other most used writing books.

Extract from Blurb:

Women are not men with mammaries. They don't approach, handle, or react to violence in the same way. Aiki Flinthart is a long-time martial artist, archer, knife-thrower, assault-survivor, and author of 11+ novels.

In Fight Like a Girl, she brings her own experience, plus the results of extensive research and interviews, to the table for fellow authors. 

Take care and stay safe,

Texas Ranch Wolf Pack Series

Wolf's Heart Memorial Day Special!

Wolf's Heart Free Memorial Day - June 4!

#FATOP

Wolf's Heart is the story of how Jonathan, the Were King's Beta Wolf, meets his future mate. 

I've had several requests for the rest of Jonathan's story. They still have adventures to enjoy before getting together, but that story will come soon.

If you missed this story, or if you want to own it instead of reading a borrowed copy, click the link above or click the image at the right to get your copy.

Blurb:

Wolf shifters trusting vampires? Just not done. Or is it?

Wolf shifter Jonathan is on his way home from San Antonio when he finds a wrecked car with an unconscious woman behind the wheel.

Stacy, cold-blooded vampire that she is, quickly succumbs to the below-freezing temps after wrecking her car in an attempt to avoid hitting a doe.

She's never met a shifter before. Trusting him isn't a good idea.

The only vampire Jonathan ever met who didn't try to kill him was General Brighton. Trusting Stacy isn't smart.

Falling in love isn't smart, either.

Take care and stay safe,

Texas Ranch Wolf Pack Series

Tala Ridge Hunt Sneak Preview and Update

Tala Ridge Hunt Update

Tala Ridge Hunt Preview and Update

From my WIP, Tala Ridge Hunt:

“How’d you get away?”

“I used a you-can’t-see-me tarp to hide. We all used hunter’s spray to keep them from smelling us.” Jeffers peeked up at the Major, then ducked his head when anger flashed in the Major’s eyes.

“You just left them behind? You didn’t try to help your comrades?”

“Sir, they were too well guarded. I couldn’t get close, so I watched so I could report when I got to base. The wolves disarmed everyone and put them into a giant tent. Some Marine general came and talked with each of them, then they made them change clothes and remove all jewelry. They put them on buses and took them away. I don’t know where. I couldn’t get close enough to hear what they said.”

“Wait. They took off the rings?”

“Yes, Sir, Major, Sir.”

The Major’s eyes narrowed, and he glared at the private. “How long did you watch?”

“Until they gave the all-clear and the women and children came out of hiding.”

“How many children?”

“I don’t know, Sir. They aged from babies to late teens, though. There were several sets of twins. The alpha seemed really fond of a set of female twins.” He shrugged. “Maybe seven or eight years old.”

“His spawn?”

Jeffers shook his head. “No, Sir, at least I don’t think so. A blonde woman came out of the house carrying a baby girl. He kissed the woman and took the baby from her arms, so I think that was his mate.”

Major Baskett seemed lost in thought. After several long moments, he huffed and turned to face the front of the bus. Gable sighed and looked out the window again. Kids. Yes, if the Huntsmen were right…if shifters killed and ate humans, the kids had to die, too, but…kids. He didn’t think he could kill kids. Even as a matter of duty. Maybe it wouldn’t come to that.

Update and Other News

I can't provide a date for publication, yet. I'm still trying to get settled into my new home, but I am able to work on the book sporadically. Unfortunately, I am unable to lift or move heavy items right now, so I'm somewhat dependent on when my family can help.

Hopefully, by next week I'll be back to writing full-time. I have so many stories I want to write!

To find the Tala Ridge Shifters Series page, click here.

Take care and stay safe,

Texas Ranch Wolf Pack Series

Happy Birthday: Gift for You

 It's My Birthday!

To celebrate, I giving away two ebooks, Wolf's Dragon and Tala Ridge Alpha. If you don't have a copy of these books, make sure to get it now. Click the image or the link to go to Amazon to get your copy.

Offer ends April 19, so hurry!

Wolf's Dragon

Tala Ridge Alpha

Other News

I love getting reader feedback and requests. It might take me a while to get around to them, but I put them on my list of things to write. Just one caveat: I am a discovery or pantser writer, which basically means I don't plot. I write 'into the dark' as taught by Dean Wesley Smith in his book Writing into the Dark: How to Write a Novel without an Outline. I was thrilled to learn that the way I write is a 'real' and acceptable method used by other authors. :) 

I write with very little planning or plotting involved. That's why it sometimes takes me a while to write a book. Personally, I like learning the story as I write it. It keeps the writing fresh and fun.

Another note: Wolf's Dragon has been featured on eBook Daily!

Back to writing!

Take care and stay safe,

Texas Ranch Wolf Pack Series

Kalene Williams' Narration

 Chapter One of Tala Ridge Alpha Narrated by Kalene Williams

Kalene Williams of Kalene's Story Time is a writer, an editor, and one of the admins of Keystroke Medium, a terrific Facebook group for writers. If you write or are interested in getting started in the indie author field, check out the Keystroke Medium YouTube channel for informative and helpful videos for writers. 

Kalene reads the first chapter or so of books submitted to her. I'm not sure of her criteria for selection, but I've enjoyed listening to the first chapters of the books she features. I've read several of them and have never been disappointed.

I am thrilled beyond words that Kalene selected Tala Ridge Alpha to read in her Kalene's Story Time. Thank you, Kalene!

Take care and stay safe,

Texas Ranch Wolf Pack Series