March 10, 2006

Hello! You’ve found my little corner of the Internet.

I don’t get a lot of visitors, but the welcome mat is out, so feel free to drop in anytime.

Looking around, you might wonder about the purpose of this place. It’s here to promote me and my writing career.

My current project is Prairie Fire, the first of what I hope will be several books with a fire theme. "A beacon through time, igniting new passion, exposing old truths" is the unifying concept -– characters pulled into a quest for true love and greater understanding of themselves.

In keeping with that theme, I also have a blog called The Beacon, which records my triumphs and trials as a writer, along with some industry news here and there.

Before you walk out my door, let me leave you with a Scottish blessing from Aunt Riona, a recurring character in my Beacon novels.

May the blessing of light be upon you,
light without and light within.
May the blessed sunlight shine upon you
and warm your heart till it glows,
like a great peat fire, so that the stranger may come
and warm himself at it, as well as the friend.
And may the light shine out of the eyes of you,
like a candle set in the windows of a house,
bidding the wanderer to come in out of the storm.

May the blessing of the rain be upon you
- the soft sweet rain.
May it fall upon your spirit so that
all the little flowers spring up,
shedding their sweetness on the air.
And may it wash your spirit fair and clean,
and leave there many a shining pool, and sometimes a star.

May the blessing of the earth be upon you
- the great round earth.
May it be soft under your feet as you walk along it,
soft under you as you lie out on it, tired at the end of day.
And in all your comings and goings,
may you ever have a kindly greeting
for them you meet along the road.

The Beacon 

Page updated and links checked March 10, 2006
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