I received a call Tuesday night. In Twilight’s Shadow is a finalist for Best Paranormal in the Colorado Romance Writers Award of Excellence! Yea!
Today, I was watching the national news, something I do as the mood strikes rather than an regularity, and toward the end of the broadcast, I saw the most incredible clip. It’s from an undersea volcano near Tonga. I would have been captured by the visual imagery anyway since it’s quite a site to see, but I had an extra pull in to this because of it’s location–it’s in the South Pacific. Because of my Polynesian couple, I’ve developed an interest in anything going on in the Oceania area.
In case you missed it, here’s a clip of the undersea volcano going off:
It’s amazing how this works for me. When I was writing The Power of Two, I developed an interest in Vietnam because Cai was 1/4 Vietnamese. When I wrote Through a Crimson Veil it was Japan because Mika was half demon, half Japanese-American. With my Light Warrior series, I’ve become interested in Gaelic. Every book or series of books seems to bring something that I glom on to. Kind of cool, really, when you think about it. 
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