You like to read. So do I! There's plenty to read on this site besides just the fiction.

When I get a blog, you'll be able to reach it here and comment.

Come over to the travel section and see where I've been and what I thought about it. Hopefully 2008 will see two more places included, these inside the US.

Hey, there's some nice artwork in my art section. Give it a look-see!

The comics section contains one of the web's largest discussions about Wonder Woman. No, really. Come over and check out some of the indexes, like the costume history.

Then peruse the rest of the comics section for oddball characters -- most of whom are literally strong women.

from
Cerridwen Press

When ultra-superhero Londo (Valiant) Rand breaks through her door to save Lina O’Kelly from a burning hotel, she knows that’s merely the beginning of her crisis. Londo’s foes have temporarily blasted away his powers, leaving the two of them to outrun a mercenary army across an otherwise deserted South Pacific island. If they’re lucky they can reach safety to await rescue, or Londo’s powers will return and he can fly them away.

Londo doesn’t want those powers to return, not yet. This is the first time in his life he’s been able to touch someone without the potential of accidentally tearing them to shreds. Lina is definitely someone he wants to touch -- and more. He’s eager to learn what it feels like to be fully human.

But stubborn telepath/psychic Lina’s dysfunctional childhood has left her with an acute phobia for touch. She’s also sworn to help anyone who requests aid -- even if it’s the world’s greatest superhero who asks for what she’s unable to give.

Will they discover that what they’ve both longed for was not a touch of skin, but that of two hearts meeting? If they should fall deeply in love, how will they cope when Londo’s powers return and he’s too strong to hold Lina in his arms?

We've just started the editing phase, but hopefully soon you'll be able to read Touch of Danger in ebook form, and maybe later in printed form. When either of those things happen, I'll link from here.

Until then, read an excerpt here.

Isn't the cover FABulous??? I just got it!!!!

I've always liked strong female characters, so that's what I write. I love fantasy (I classify "fantasy" as the non-modern real world, so historicals fall into that category) and a dash of comedy. Let's face it, life is not all grim; everyone deserves a laugh now and then. You too? Well come in and sample some of my books!

Over there to the right is my very first book that will be e-published soon. The book below is a definite possibility for publication as well.

Touch of Danger is the first novel of a series I call Three Worlds. You can read the concept behind the series here, and link to excerpts from that page as well.

I'm also shopping around a middle-school fantasy that involves a young Viking princess, an Amazon princess, and a world where all the keen ancient civilizations coexist. (Kids! History wasn't like this!) You can read an excerpt of Amazon Magic here. (If that book gets contracted, it'll switch over to a site under the penname I'll be using for it. Mustn't have the kiddie crowd and the very adult crowd overlap.)

Here's my historical romance, Burgundy and Lies. I'll try shopping that around when I have a followup. No, not in the same timeline, but another historical.

Keep Your Fingers Crossed For This Book to Be Sold!

After a hit man blasts telepathic psychiatrist David Lumen’s mind into the body of a pampered kitty on its way home to the moon, David’s desperate plan to make himself whole again is hampered by his new feline life. He finds the only person close enough to communicate with is struggling avant-garde artist, Pippin Applegate.

Pippin has problems of her own. The Fashion Police ticket her unmercifully for appearing disheveled in public, even though her accidents are never her fault. Her aunt is pressuring her to quit art and become VP of the family’s mega-corporate Lunar apple business. And now Pippin has to deal with a telepathic cat?

Together they spot David’s body walking around... with the hit man’s mind inside. When they discover the hit man’s original, soulless body it sucks David’s mind into it. Now that he’s fully mobile, can he regain his true body when it’s leaving a trail of chaos and murder that leads to Pippin’s make-or-break art show?

Read an excerpt here.

I kind of like my mocked-up cover. The cat looks a little wild and crazy, just like Jonathan is supposed to be.

 

 

Bio

Although born in a small town in Illinois noted for its Nineteenth Century demonic possession cases, Carol A. Strickland claims that all those voices inside her head are a result of having stories to tell and books to write. Even so, her strange devotion to and study of Wonder Woman would seem to indicate an abby-normal brain.

It was the sudden realization that her first novel was a romance and not just f/sf that prompted her to join Romance Writers of America. Their various workshops and mentoring programs have helped her get this far. She also keeps the requisite number of cats that Marion Zimmer Bradley declared a fantasy author needed to write well.

A one-time comics letterhack and now an outspoken member of various message boards, Carol has found herself the basis for two comic book villains (at times her opinions have not been taken well by the books’ creators) (both villains were soundly thrashed) (and both, for some perverse reason, were male), had one superhero wear her costume design... and she knows that Brad Pitt is eight years and two days younger than she. Sigh.

Carol has also become an award-winning painter from her home in North Carolina. She exercises this skill in her secondary hours (both of them) along with writing as she waits for the lottery to free her 9-to-5 time to more fulfilling pursuits.