I know that many people have questioned whether gender bias does indeed exist in the genre. Here's proof positive.

Validation is always nice. Over the past eight years, since I began to actively write fiction again, several people have tried to get me to mend my ways and write in a different style.

What I do is consistent, but rather old fashioned (or so I am told) and some have called it (erroneously) third omniscient. Luna Black got the closest to it when she called it “Russian Panoramic” but that was not right either.

I tried so hard to tone the style down that I only ended up dissatisfied and unhappy over the past few years. I have a style that is natural to me, which started developing back when I was reading Dostoyevski, Tolstoy, and most especially Nicolai Gogol at 13.

Then yesterday a present from a friend arrived.

It’s a book by James Wood called “How Fiction Works.”

Lo and Behold, the style I write in has a name. The entire book is about Free Indirect Style.

Yes, it is an old-fashioned style; but so long as it works, why fix it?

The Official launch date for Daverana Enterprises is August 19th.

We are proud to present a collection by Angeline Hawkes, Symphony for the Forgotten.

And here is the cover.

Former agent, now an editor, Jane Letty is looking over the contract I put together for the anthology to make sure that all bases are covered. As soon as she gets back to me, I'll be sending them out.

When you get them, and you know who you are, but I'll put up a list, I will need for you to print out two copies and sign them. Send both of them to me and I'll counter sign them and send one copy back to you. When I get the contract back, I'll mail your checks out.

So far, we have stories by:
Lyn McConchie
Sharman Horwood
Nicholas Mounts
Kaolin Fire
Susie Hawes
Tracy Keegan
Lena Sawyer
Natalie Daniels
Luna Black
Deann Allen

And several authors have promised to sub something before the deadline of June 1st.

Now that everything has begun to come together in my life, there will not be another extension on the deadline. June 1st is it, folks.