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Chance Takes a Bow

by M.L. Buchman I'm always surprised, and occasionally a little alarmed, when Chance takes a hand. Chance is Lady Luck's younger brother and I often think that he's slipping out of some halfway house to do a little moonlighting when he strikes. Because unlike Lady Luck, when Chance strikes, he delivers a strangely mixed bag. What really brings the contrast of behavior to light is when they both do their dance to me in the same week. Lady Luck (who I picture as sort of Anne Hathaway in that makeover scene in The Devil Wears Prada): Lady Luck came to me in the form of an editor who was sick to death of my insisting that I only wrote novels. She said, "Fine. I'm building an anthology and you're now one of the lead authors in it. Go write me a story." Ghost of Willow's Past was described as "One of the standouts!" by Publisher's Weekly. A year later the same editor kicked me in the butt and "Where's the next story? ...

The Ever-expanding World

by M. L. Buchman You know that insulation that you squirt in and it just sort of expands?  Yep! My Night Stalkers series just keeps doing that to me. So I've spent the last few weeks trying to figure out how to explain to myself (never mind my readers) just what the heck is going on in my world of danger and true love among the 160th Special Operations Aviation Regiment (SOAR). I think I finally got a handle on it mostly. What made me really think about it was that I had two recent releases (April and May), both in that world and neither in the main series(es). That makes an author spend some time thinking. THE NEW RELEASES This great anthology (in many ways, 472pp) of 8 original military romance novellas by a stunning cast of authors is to benefit the Wounded Warrior Project. All profits are going to this great charity to aid disabled veterans. Buy it for that reason alone if no other. In my story NSDQ  (short for the Night Stalkers unofficial motto: "Night ...