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Writing with your Muse offers techniques, strategies, tools, tips, and stories to help you tap into creative inspiration. You don't have to be psychic to be successful with these techniques, although that natural ability exists in all of us, and these techniques will help you develop your sixth sense. There's even science to back it up. This book will help you if you hear words or see images but find it difficult to get the text on the page, you've written and published but are searching for something fresh and different, you have ideas but don't know how or where to begin, you want to write but have no ideas, or you're suffering from a bad case of writer's block."Hawkin serves hearty doses of inspiration and imagination while frequently drawing on giants of literature and philosophy . . . Vital advice for the tale spinner in each of us." -Publishers Weekly"Remarkable, authentic, and enlightening . . . The drive this book instills in the reader to put these practices into play in their own lives will keep readers coming back to this book repeatedly, very much in tune with other great books like Stephen King's "On Writing." -Anthony Avina"Hawkin is refreshingly honest about her own experiences, establishing her expertise with gentle humor and humility. If writing is a journey, then Hawkin is the perfect guide to its unexplored and untamed reaches: inspiring, forthright, and inventive." -Marie Powell, Last of the Gifted series"An invaluable resource that empowers writers, allowing them to approach their craft with confidence . . . An essential addition to any writer's toolbox." -Joshua Roy¿¿"A craft tool and spiritual journey guided by a skillful, compassionate mentor . . . Stands out from other craft books." -Sionnach Wintergreen, Men of the Shadows seriesRead less

"Twin wolves howled beneath a turquoise crescent moon, their bushy manes wild and ruffled and knotted by the winds of change. "It's us. You over my heart, and me beside you. It's our destiny."In the captivating sequel of To Kill a King, ancient magic collides with modern trickery as a Wicca high priest embarks on a thrilling journey to defy the boundaries of time and challenge the very fabric of destiny. This gripping urban fantasy novel follows Estrada, who, armed with extraordinary powers, ventures into the past, hoping to alter Michael Stryker's future. A maelstrom of unforeseen events unfolds, weaving an intricate web of chaos that changes the course of history itself. For in the tapestry of time, even the most well-intentioned actions can have devastating consequences.While attempting to prevent the tragic outcome of To Render a Raven, Estrada struggles with the complexities of love; archaeologist Sorcha O'Hallorhan slips into her own time warp with a woman she once adored; and Conall Ceol, an Iron Age Druid bard, walks into the future to challenge Michael Stryker for Estrada's affection.

To sleep with stones can reveal historyor get you jailed for murder.Dylan McBride is one of the Hollystone witches, a Wicca coven that practices ritual magic in Vancouver, Canada. He has a unique gift. When he touches rock, it reveals its secrets. Stones are silent witnesses that hold the memory of the land and its people. Sometimes he hears voices; sometimes he sees visions. This ability draws him to archaeology and Kilmartin Glen, a megalithic sanctuary in Argyll, Scotland, where he spent his teen years. For Dylan, Argyll is home.While digging there, with radical archaeologist, Sorcha O'Hallorhan, the team unearths an ancient Egyptian artifact: the broad collar of Meritaten, daughter of King Akhenatan and Queen Nefertiti. That night, while celebrating the find at a local pub, Dylan tangles with Alastair Steele, a nasty Glasgow journalist who wants more than the story. He wants the artifact. Back at camp, Dylan spends the eve of Summer Solstice communing with the standing stones in a nearby field. He falls asleep before sunrise, and is awakened by police. Steele's battered body lies in a cairn, in the adjoining field. Dylan is arrested for murder and incarcerated. The artifact is gone: stolen from Sorcha's tent. Fearful and forlorn, he summons his friend, Estrada, to solve the crime and set him free.Sexy and flawed, Estrada is a free-spirited magician by trade, and high priest of Hollystone Coven by vocation. He's just upset his best friend, Michael Stryker--the eccentric manager of a goth club, who likes to play vampire and thinks he's the reincarnation of Lord Byron--so, Estrada fears what will ensue in his absence. But Dylan is an innocent man in jail, and he fears for his life. He must go to Glasgow, solve the murder, and set him free. Meanwhile, back in Canada, Michael romances a younger version of Estrada, embarks on his own adventure, and discovers that playing vampire can suck the life out of you.In Scotland, Estrada is tempted by two women: Sorcha, the bawdy archaeologist that Dylan loves, and Rachel Erskine-Steele, a slick detective who happens to be the victim's wife. Can Estrada discover the killer and prove Dylan's innocence? Get him released from prison before it's too late? Can he find the thief who stole the artifact? Or, will he succomb to his flaws?To Sleep with Stones is a unique story that crosses genres. It's a cozy murder mystery with a fast-paced, edgy bent. It's also urban fantasy: a contemporary story that explores spirituality, homophobia, and opens portals into the realm of myth and faery. Book Two in the Hollystone Mysteries series, it picks up six months after To Charm a Killer.

When a third witch vanishes from Vancouver, the witches of Hollystone Coven spin a charm to catch the killer. But spells ripple with repercussions and in the ensuing chaos, an innocent seventeen-year-old girl gets caught up in the charm. As obsessed with the killer as the killer is with him, High Priest Estrada vows to stop the man. Then, at their Samhain ritual, Hecate speaks through their high priestess and shocks everyone with her prophecy:As one of you has spun the charm, now none of you are safe from harm.One who all felt they could trust, breeds deception cloaked in lust.One will gain their heart's desire, while yet another pays with fire.Before the dark of winter night, four souls pass over into light.Once begun it cannot end, but circles round as circles bend.To save the girl and catch the killer, Estrada journeys from the West Coast of Canada to Ireland and Beyond. Abduction, death, fire, and faeries. Who is the killer? Why is he killing witches? And how can he be stopped before Hecate's prophecy unravels?WL Hawkin weaves threads of Macbeth and ancient Irish myth with edgy romance in this mysterious urban fantasy. To Charm a Killer is the first in the Hollystone Mysteries series.

"Estrada flexed his bicep and stared at his latest tattoo. Corvus Corax. The raven's back broke into a flurry of feathers and deranged birds to remind him how he'd split the terror asunder with the sheer force of his right arm. He could still feel the damp steel, the hot blood, the hollow pit of his pulsing gut as he struck. The creature held a bloody rose in its beak so he'd never forget how close he'd come . . ."Estrada is High Priest of Hollystone Coven, a shaman and magician. But is he a match for a vengeful vampire? When Diego steals his daughter from her crib on the eve of her first birthday, the Hollystone witches converge. The same night, a woman is murdered and another abducted. All three scenes are marked by roses that point to Michael Stryker, Estrada's lover and best friend-a man with a strange dark "virus" brewing inside him. As the witches journey up the Pacific coast, emotions run raw as the close confines of a yacht heighten the tension between his jealous lovers. And then they meet the ravens . . . Diego wants blood. Estrada wants his baby back. What will the high priest sacrifice to bring his daughter home?"If I had only one breath left, I would give it to you.""I wouldn't take your last breath. I can't imagine a world without you in it."A sexy Hitchcockian thriller that demystifies Vampire and illustrates the power of Love.