Music Monday: Mystic Woman

It's really no surprise that this song is my current earworm. It's all over social media, and it's like a southern gothic Hozier decided to write a song about a deconstructed religious journey...or, because it's all about my FMC, Lark. It doesn't hurt that I can see the MMC Connor singing this for her...bless his sweet heart. Hopefully this will get them out of my head long enough to finish Elysiam's novella. Hopefully. Anyway, enjoy.

 

Music Monday: Is í an teanga mo ghrá.

(Pronounced: Iss ee un tyang-uh muh graw) The title (in Irish) means I love language, specifically the Irish language, also called Gaeilge (pronounced GWEIL-geh). I'm getting very into learning Irish (via Duolingo, best I can manage for now), and one of the easiest ways for me to remember things is singing them. Go figure.

Here's one of my favorite of the Chasing Abbey songs that have become my latest hyper fixation: Arís is Arís (Ah-reesh ish ah-reesh) which is an idiom meaning Again and Again. The words are on the screen so you don't need the automatic captions. I especially like it because it taught me the name for one of my novels, Darkness (Dorchadas). See? Language nerd.🤓Enjoy.

Music Monday: It's Obvious...Child

There is nothing related to any of my WIP or my published work in this week's Music Monday. What is there is some motivation. I have to go back to the DayJob® tomorrow and to say I'm not looking forward to it is an understatement. For the first time since Eugene pulled up and made my life awful, I actually have to go to campus and y'all...I am not as healed as I like to make people think. But needs must, so I'm sure I will have this one on LOUD repeat in the car. Enjoy.

Happy Birthday, Sweet Boy!!

Stanley doesn't have his own blog like our Bryn did, but I can wish him a happy 3rd Birthday here! We're so lucky to have you in our family, my sweet cinnamon roll boy. Love you to the moon and back.

Our Bánbhuí Beastie, Stanley

Music Monday: Still Uninvited

So, this song by Alanis Morissette has been speaking to me about a big bad fight in an upcoming WIP, but when I heard this version it blew me out of the water. I love Brandi Carlisle and she did this total justice. Rage on, sister. Rage.

UninvitedSong by Alanis Morissette
Like anyone would beI am flattered by your fascination with meLike any hot-blooded womanI have simply wanted an object to craveBut you, you're not allowedYou're uninvitedAn unfortunate slight
Must be strangely excitingTo watch the stoic squirmMust be somewhat hearteningTo watch shepherd need shepherdBut you, you're not allowedYou're uninvitedAn unfortunate slight
Like any uncharted territoryI must seem greatly intriguingYou speak of my love likeYou have experienced love like mine beforeBut this is not allowedYou're uninvitedAn unfortunate slight
I don't think you unworthyI need a moment to deliberate

Newsletter, August 2026

Hey, y'all!

Lots has happened since I last wrote...LOTS. Some of it is on the personal side, and let's just say that we are on a good path as far as that's concerned.

Coming soon, our new boy Stanley (shown here with me at the Georgia Renaissance Festival last spring) will be three... this month! Not a day goes by that I don't wish our big girls Bryn and Ciaragh were still here to show him the ropes, but he has healed the holes that they left in my heart...if not the ones in the yard.

As far as the Nancy E. Dunne side, there's loads to tell there too.

• I'm getting back on track with events and shows to meet more and more of you and get signed copies of my book babies in your hands. The events I have left this year are the Upstate Renaissance Festival, 18-20 September in Spartanburg, SC; Multiverse Con, 16-18 October in Peachtree City, GA; and SC Comicon Junior, 25 October in Greenville, SC.
• There's also a new way to get your hands on signed copies of my novels! Click on the button down there to access The Bookshop, where you can order signed copies and pre-order physical copies of upcoming stories. (If digital copies are your thing, you can get those as usual in my Amazon book listings here.)

Finally, the new edition in the Orana's Legacy novellas is coming in October: The Druid's Nature. 

THERE'S STILL ONLY ONE WAY TO FIND OUT.

Elys has never questioned her devotion to Kildir, her sworn deity. When he gives her a mission to complete without a lot of explanation, she takes it...even though it leads to another separation from Hack and tests all of the parts of her nature, those things that make her who she is. Will she be able to complete this mission in time to save the gnome she loves? Can she live up to the mantle of Guardian of the Wilds?

This novella fits into the Orana Chronicles timeline after the events of Red, The Temple, and Hero. Click on the link below for more information and to pre-order your copy!

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I hope your August is fantastic, and I will see you back here in September.

Music Monday: Elys and Hack

I'm almost to edits on the latest novella in my Orana Chronicles series, and this one focuses on two of my favorite secondary characters, Elys and Hack. Elys is a wood elf druid who prefers burning things to healing her party members and Hack is a gnome warrior that adores her. They go through a lot to be together, and their banter is one of my favorite parts of writing them. This song just made me think of them. Enjoy.