Melissa Maygrove

It always makes me smile when a friend launches a new book, especially someone who's as nice of a guy as Nick Wilford.  Reckoning, part 3 of the Black & White Trilogy, is set for release in September. We'll have to wait till then for the story, but we get to see the cover today! Cover design: germancreative The time has come for those who perpetrated wrongdoing and suffering on the land of Loretania to face their judgement. Lord Histender and the other members of the deposed Reformers’ Government are in jail awaiting trial for keeping that country in a state of disease-ridden deprivation, alongside other heinous crimes.   Wellesbury Noon and Ezmerelda Dontible, the kind and benevolent new rulers of Harmonia, are looking forward to seeing justice finally being done. But nothing is that simple. Lunkin, the psychotic former Chief Scientist, has one more trick up his sleeve and is wreaking havoc even from behind bars. Soon, Loretanians who have come to make a new life in Harmon

  This is my   Insecure Writers Support Group   post for July 2022. Alex's awesome co-hosts this month  are:  J Lenni Dorner,   Janet Alcorn,   PJ Colando,   Jenni Enzor,   and  Diane Burton! Please stop by their blogs and say thank you .  💻💻💻💻💻 July 6th Question: If you could live in any book world, which one would you choose. The first book that came to mind was Little House on the Prairie . I grew up watching that show, and I've always felt like I was born a century too late. Funny thing, though...I recently found the series on a free streaming channel and watched it again. Life back then wasn't as rosy as I remember. Books often romanticize times gone by. Regardless of what we tell ourselves, each setting and decade has its challenges. I would choose a simpler, farm-like life in the 1800s...i f I could take along some penicillin and my A/C. ### Small win last month... A couple of weeks after releasing Fool's Iron , I put my western series into KU. I had resi