Come see me in Phoenix this weekend!

Hey Guys! Come see me this weekend in Phoenix at their awesome ComicCon! Here's my schedule: Saturday: 12:00-1:00 - panel with the fabulous Diana Gabaldon 3:00-4:00 - I'm teaching a workshop Sunday 12:00-1:00 - I'm teaching another workshop The workshops will be about writing in general and about the House of Night. I'll be signing books afterwards. I think I'm signing books Friday as well, but I'm not sure when. You can google the Phoenix ComicCon for more info. I'm just going to go where they point me... See you in Phoenix! PC

Sliding into the end of HIDDEN!

Check out this awesome picture of The Black (my mare who is so much like Lenobia's Mujaji). It was taken by J. Brodland, a photographer friend of my ranch manager. Isn't she beautiful! Working my way through the last half of HIDDEN! Ooooh! XXXOOO PC

New favorite place!

Hey there Tulsa area fans! One of my best friends and I have opened an awesome restaurant in the heart of Tulsa! It's a fabulous Airstream where you can eat outside and pretend like you're on vacay! Lola's Gypsy Caravan can be found at 1347 E. 11th Street. Swing by - have some delicious food - say hi to Lola - and maybe Kristin and me, too!! Here's the on-line article about it: http://www.tulsaworld.com/scene/article.aspx?subjectid=39&articleid=20120508_39_0_Itslik450439 XXXOOO PC

Two for one!

It's a super cool coincidence that it looks like Kristin and I are going to finish our latest novels right around the same time! I'm almost done with HIDDEN, and Kristin is soooo close to being done with her first novel length, stand alone manuscript, tentatively titled ABOVE. (Kristin serves as teen voice editor on the House of Night books, and has had some short pieces published one her own.) But we are getting out and enjoying the beautiful weather on our new bikes! Ooooh! XXXOOO PC

An Awesomely Small World...

So, I get this email today from one of my very favorite ex-students, Dustin Chad Gann. He lives in NYC (I knew he'd end up there and be totally successful!). He was on the train riding into the city and he saw a woman reading one of my books. He snapped a pic. He and the woman started talking. He finds out she's a friend of one of my long time friends, and she'd just returned to NYC from visiting Tulsa. She proceeded to pull out her camera (she's an amazingly talented photographer) and showed Dustin pics of my ranch and me. He was all like, "Whhhhhat?? You know her, too???!" Such a cool small world... Yea for fabulous ex-students! XXXOOO PC

Happy Spring!

I'm more than halfway through HIDDEN! You will not believe what's happening!!! Hope y'all are having a wonderful spring. The bad weather has pretty much missed Tulsa and the ranch. It's been a wet spring, but the rain has been wonderful! Everything is green and growing. Makes for excellent writing weather! Wishing you love and light, PC

Follow Kristin!

Hey guys! Kristin has joined Twitter! Follow her at ChickenFrances! (No, I'm not going to tweet. It hurts my head. But yea for Kristin!) XXXOOO PC/Mom

HoN Motion Comic!

Oooh! Guys! Check it out! Dark Horse has created a motion comic based on part of the first HoN comic they released. You guys will recognize the story from THE FLEDGLING HANDBOOK! Awesomesauce!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qjXRuP0Ol_w&list=PLD63319182D9529A4&index=7&feature=plpp_video

HoN shirt!

FINALLY! The first of our clothing line is ready! Right now it's just one shirt available through Hot Topic on line. This is our test run. If it does well we'll release all the others ASAP (and you should be able to buy them from Hot Topic stores).

Here's the link!

http://ow.ly/ajxtX

Happy shopping!!
PC

Oooh! Check us out!

Kristin and I are so honored and humbled by this.

XXXOOO
PC

Paradise!

I'm out at the ranch writing writing writing, which I do all night and usually go to bed when the sun comes up. So I'm wandering around outside (thinking about how to fix a plot problem I'd just written myself into), and I walked around the corner to see this fabulousness! It looked like fairies visited my back yard! Oooh!

Back to my writer's cave...
PC

Kristin's Events!

Kristin's helping me out by doing some events by herself so that I can get HIDDEN finished. Today she's in Georgia! This is her at Kendrick High School in Columbus, GA. She's having a blast! WELL DONE KRISTIN!

XXXOOO
PC/Mom

Paddeling my way through HIDDEN!

(Current Cammy View!)

Cammy said I needed to get some sea air to clear my head in the middle of writing HIDDEN, so we went out in the Cammy Kayak. Obviously, he's captain of the ship!

HIDDEN is coming along well...lots of craziness at the HoN. (All of you LENOBIA'S VOW fans will be Super Pleased!)

No movie updates at this time. Director and screenplay are being worked on. NO, THEY'RE NOT CASTING YET. I'll post when I know something.

May your day be Caribbean bright!

Back to work for me...
XXXOOO
PC

From the ranch to the beach!

(Cammy's View!)


Exhausted from fighting fires in Oklahoma, Cammy has retired to "his" beach on Grand Cayman where he's donned his life jacket and is practicing safe swimming. I'm in my writer's cave writing...writing...writing... Actually I just realized I messed up a scene in HIDDEN, so tonight I'll be REwriting...REwriting...REwriting... Sigh.

XXXOOO
PC

Cammy "helping" the fire trucks

Yes, it's been TOO DRY in Oklahoma, which means some moron throws a cigarette butt out a truck window and catches half of the state on fire. This time it was my half - wayyyy too close to my ranch for comfort. But Cammy was on duty, howling and helping the firemen. Good job Cammy! (And a big thank you to our wonderful, hardworking firemen!)

Taking a short break from working on HIDDEN to do the rewrite of POSSESSED, a novella (paranormal romance) that I've written for a duology with my good friend Gena Showalter. It'll be out in November. Back to HIDDEN soon!

XXXOOO
PC

New mare!

Well, I keep forgetting to have either my wonderful man or my Totally Perfect Ranch Manager take a pic of me on my new mare! So, today we all rode and (typically) I remembered the picture thing after I'd unsaddled her and was putting her away. Here's the quickly remembered picture of The Black and me. Yep, Lenobia's mare, Mujaji, is much like her - totally black quarter horse who is super smart and super wonderful. My mare does have a tiny bit of white on her forehead, though. And she's a dreamboat. I adore her. I am calling her The Black - any horse lovers out there know why? What fictional horse did I name her after?

Still plodding my way through HIDDEN...

XXXOOO
PC

Out at the ranch...

I'm out at my beautiful ranch plodding through the first half of HIDDEN. Thought you guys would like to see my gorgeous outdoor fireplace (it's been a mild winter, but still...burrrrr...). The book is going great, and I just bought a new mare! Oh boy! I'll post pics of her soon, but diehard HoN fans will appreciate knowing that she's so freakishly like Lenobia's mare that it's as if I manifested her!! Soooo, what color is she???

XXXOOO
PC

Big Bonnie!

As many of you know, much of what I write is based on the "real" world - and the fabulous Percheron mare introduced in DESTINED is a prime example of this. Travis's Bonnie is really my Bonnie. She's 18.2 hands and does remind me of a dinosaur (a lovely one, though!). Bonnie is broke to ride, but her primary job is driving. Thought you guys would like to see pics of her in the barn getting tacked up, and then in my front pasture practicing some driving with my wonderful ranch manager and me (I'm in the puffy hat, of course!).

And, yes, it's freeeeezing in Oklahoma today!

XXXOOO
PC

Thanks guys! And HoN comic #4 is available!

Just wanted to say a quick "thank you!" to all our fans who have been so vocal about how much they love LENOBIA'S VOW. FYI: HIDDEN (October 2012) opens from Lenobia's point of view! (NO, I CAN'T TELL YOU ANYTHING MORE ABOUT HIDDEN.)

Oh, and yes, the cover for NEFERET'S CURSE is on the back jacket of the Lenobia novella. No, I don't know the exact release date for it yet, but I imagine it'll be in about a year.

Check out the awesomeness that is the HoN comic #4! In it Zoey learns a lesson from ancient Egypt and Cleopatra. You can get the HoN comics at any comic book store in the US and the UK (yes, they will soon be available all over Europe - keep checking with your local comic stores!), or order them directly from the Dark Horse website.

Happy reading! Back to work on HIDDEN for me...
PC

Lenobia's Party pics!

Thanks so much to all our wonderful fans who came to our party! Here we are with our prize giveaway - my handsome Dad introducing us - and a few of our awesome fans (hi Sarah Dees! happy birthday!).

We had a blast! And y'all did a great job with the tattoos!!!

We heart you!
PC