Leia Howard - Author

Blood Song is a short story set in the World of Touch of Gray, the first in the Blood Mystic series featuring Blood Sage sisters Vic and Jay MacGillivray. While this story is stand-alone, there are characters from previous Touch of Gray books featured in Blood Song.   Blood Song is available now for pre-order on Amazon Kindle and will be published November 1st, 2021.  The usual excerpt will be available prior to publication, and character descriptions will be made available within a few days after publication. Book Description:  Strange occurences are afoot in Council Bluffs in the Southern Plains Conservatorship.  An ancient force is stirring, tormenting the sages of Council Bluffs and hungering for blood.  The MacGillivray sibling sages have been called for assistance, and sisters Vic and Jay are dispatched to investigate. They are aided in their investigation by Kai Graham, brother of Gray and friend to the MacGillivrays.  History has a way of repe...

I have a podcast entitled 'An Indie Author's Life' available on Apple Podcasts and hosted by Podbean . The podcast focuses mainly on the business of self-publishing and promotion as well as some general writing and editing processes.  I keep my Podcast page updated with the monthly release of new episodes, the most recent of which was just released and with the topic of 'Podcasts, A Year in Review' To promote my books, I create short informational videos and post them to my YouTube channel .  Feel free to check them out.  I also have the individual videos linked to the Books  page if you want watch them from my website. I hope you enjoy listening!

Available for FREE today and tomorrow on Amazon Kindle You can purchase previous books in the series at the lengths below.  Enjoy! Out of Touch (Touch of Gray - Book One) available on Amazon Kindle and Google Books Invisible Touch (Touch of Gray - Book Two) available on Amazon Kindle and Google Books Wild and Wicked Ways (World of Touch of Gray 1) Amazon Kindle and Google Books Touch of Gray - Bundle 1 (Out of Touch / Invisible Touch / Wild and Wicked Ways) Amazon Kindle  

Another tradition is posting a chapter narration of my Touch of Gray series.  I am the narrator and I try to be not-horrible. For Touch Too Much (TOG - Book Three, available on Amazon Kindle ), I've selected the second chapter as it provides the most background in a single chapter.  Part one involves 'world-building exposition' which is always fun to do (😣) and the second part gets into planning for the upcoming Psycept Shindig .  Enjoy! Warning, the first part ends with no 'endcap' telling you it's finished.  And the second part has no 'beginning', it goes right into the story'.  Also, the background info displayed is different between the two parts.  Finally, this will be my last post for a month.  I'll return in mid-June with another 'Writing Corner' post along with other items.  Feel free to check out my Twitter ( @AuthorLeia ) in the meantime.  I'll publish a podcast episode at the end of this month with li...

Touch Too Much is the third book in the Touch of Gray series and is available now on Amazon Kindle . As per tradition, I've created an informational video about Touch Too Much.  It is available on my YouTube channel and embedded below .  It's also ironic that Touch Too Much is the longest book in the series but the shortest video.  As always, spoilers are included in the videos. In other news, the most recent episode of 'An Indie Author's Life' podcast is now available.  Enjoy! ******************************************************************** Previous books in the series are available in an eBook Bundle on Amazon Kindle and individually below. Out of Touch (Touch of Gray - Book One) on Amazon Kindle or Google Books Info video for OOT Invisible Touch (Touch of Gray - Book Two) on Amazon Kindle or Google Books Info video for IT Wild and Wicked Ways (World of Touch of Gray 1 | Wendy Weather 1) on Amazon Kindle or Google Books Info vide...

Touch Too Much (Touch of Gray - Book Three) is now available on Amazon Kindle .  Below is the updated list of characters.  Enjoy! ************************************************************************************************************* CHARACTERS Psycept Council : Gray Graham - TouchVoyant / Mind Sage. Police consultant. Wednesday (Wendy) Randolph - PsyWitch. Gray’s best friend and Sully’s twin sister. Kyle Ngo - PsySapient / fauna. Husband to Soon Yee Jamison Mitchell - PreCog Vito Mata – Variegated / Asomatous Emily Carsonne - PsySentient Gloria Escudero - Weather Guide and Chair of the Psycept Council Bailiff Dichali Clerk Miss Sonia PAPPA members : Sisters Wyrd and Brother Bone - TouchVoyant / Blood Sages and Bone Sage      aka MacGillivray siblings: Libby, Vic, and Jay = sisters; Tiko = brother Professor Philip Biobaku - TouchVoyant / PsyChometrist, co-founder of PAPPA Imital Qureshi - PCSS Director in I...

Touch Too Much (Touch of Gray - Book Three) is now available on Amazon Kindle .  At the end of this week, I'll also release an updated character list from Touch Too Much.  Happy Reading! It's a new year and Gray Graham is now a member of the Psycept Council of Albuquerque in the Southwestern Alliance Conservatorship, or SWACon.  With her new position comes new duties, including welcoming 5,000 new Psycept residents to the PsyTown area of Albuquerque and helping to orientate them to SWACon life. But not all parties are thrilled with ABQ welcoming the largest group of residents to arrive in the past decade.  Shadowy forces emerge in a shocking attack leading Gray to work with the police and military to untangle the twisted network of foreign interference before more harm can occur. (Novella, approximately 50,000 words) ************************************************************************** Touch of Gray | World of Touch of Gray eBook Bundle 1 is available...

Touch Too Much (Touch of Gray - Book Three) will be available on Amazon Kindle April 27th, pre-order now. Here is an excerpt from Chapter Six.  Enjoy! ********************************************************* Sunday afternoon finds me standing in the center of the apartment complex housing the largest number of new residents. The complex is surrounded by six neighboring complexes, thus ideal as my main location. I wear a radio chest harness with multiple pockets including one for my two-way radio with my mic headset clipped to the outside of the harness. My largest pocket holds my tablet, and other pockets are filled as well. My phone is tucked into its pocket plus a small writing pad and pen in another, within easy reach next to the radio pouch. My smartwatch is strapped to my left wrist. Each processing booth has two handheld radios they can contact me with. If a visual is needed, they dial me up on the video chat installed on all the computers and share their screens. Or...