Leia Howard - Author

Blood Song (World of Touch of Gray 2; Blood Mystic 1) will be available on Amazon Kindle November 1st, pre-order now.  Enjoy this excerpt! ************************************************************* Vic asks Jay to come to the back of the plane with her to meet with Detective Bodaway. The interior design of the plane is four rows, two seats per row, one seat on each side of the plane allowing for a small walkway between them. The cool thing is that the seats swivel, so they can all face forward, or two seats on the same row can turn 90° to face each other, or they can turn 180° forming a seating area of four front-to-front. Detective Bodaway is in the back row with an empty row in front of him, gee, with his delightful attitude, she wonders why. But his seating choice allows them to form a seating area facing one another. “Okay, we may have gotten off on the wrong foot. I’m Vic MacGillivray and this is my younger sister, Jay. We’re Blood Sages and we’ve been requested to inv...

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...

Hello, all.  I apologize for the extended hiatus from the website and social media.   As you all may be aware, I am in healthcare and the past 18 months have been challenging, to say the least.  My first year of residency began in July and I moved to a state 2,000 miles away from where I am from.  It has taken a bit for me to get my bearings, but I am settling in. In book news, I have completed writing Blood Song and it is off to the betas.  My plan is to publish it in November 2021.  The cover reveal, book description, and pre-order link will be posted in mid-September followed by an excerpt sometime in October.  I am excited to share this story set in the World of Touch of Gray with you and hope you enjoy it. As it has been over a year since I have published anything, you may need a reminder about the Touch of Gray series and the World of Touch of Gray.  Feel free to peruse this post . I will be a little more active on Twitter over the nex...

Greetings.  It has been a long time since I have posted (six months) or published anything (one year). I wanted to apologize for the extended silence on my end.  I am wrapping up my final year of healthcare related grad school, and I will be entering into a post-graduate residency program beginning in June.  My current focus is studying for licensing and credentialing exams and moving 2,000 miles away to the East Coast where my residency program is located. During this past year, I have not devoted the time I need to writing nor editing and am therefore behind schedule.  I have most of Blood Song (World of Touch of Gray #2) written, I just need to add about 3,000 more words of story, then begin the editing process.  I am half-way through with writing Keep in Touch (Touch of Gray, Book Four).  My plan this year is to complete writing and editing Blood Song with hopes to publish late 2021.  Then I will see where I stand with Keep in Touch, it will either...

Out of Touch , the first book in the Touch of Gray (TOG) series, establishes the main character Gray Graham.  It touches on the history of the world and why she relocated to another country.  It also delves into Psycepts (those with psychic perception), Gray's touch clairvoyant capabilities, and consulting on police cases.  Several peripheral characters are introduced like the police she works with, her employees at her agency, and some of her friends.  The central conflict is a mysterious border incursion and what it means to her adopted country and the Psycepts that live there.  Amazon Kindle and Google Books The second book in the series, Invisible Touch , expands Gray's world.  We learned a little more about other Psycepts including Gray's siblings, PsyWitch Wendy, and The Sisters Wyrd and Brother Bone (aka Blood and Bone Sages).  We also dive into the world of Psycepts living in Albuquerque and got an inkling of the difference between...

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  

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...

Wild and Wicked Ways, the first book in the World of Touch of Gray / Wendy Weather series is now available on Google Books. Enjoy! Google Books Amazon Kindle *********************************************************************** Other books in the main series are also available on Google. Out of Touch (Touch of Gray - Book One)  Google Books Invisible Touch (Touch of Gray - Book Two)  Google Books

A bundle of the first three Touch of Gray / World of Touch of Gray novellas is now available on Amazon Kindle .  Bundle includes: Out of Touch (Touch of Gray - Book One) Invisible Touch (Touch of Gray - Book Two) Wild and Wicked Ways      (World of Touch of Gray | Wendy Weather 1) Feel free to catch up to the Gray Verse prior to the publication of the next book in the series, Touch Too Much (Touch of Gray - Book Three) which is available for pre-order on Amazon Kindle . Enjoy!!!

Where we stand (published works): Out of Touch , the first book in the Touch of Gray (TOG) series, establishes the main character Gray Graham.  It touches on the history of the world and why she relocated to another country.  It also delves into Psycepts (those with psychic perception), Gray's touch clairvoyant capabilities, and consulting on police cases.  Several peripheral characters are introduced like the police she works with, her employees at her agency, and some of her friends.  The central conflict is a mysterious border incursion and what it means to her adopted country and the Psycepts that live there.  Amazon Kindle and Google Books The second book in the series, Invisible Touch , expands Gray's world.  We learned a little more about other Psycepts including Gray's siblings, PsyWitch Wendy, and The Sisters Wyrd and Brother Bone (aka Blood and Bone Sages).  We also dive into the world of Psycepts living in Albuquerque and got a...

Wild and Wicked Ways is available on Amazon Kindle .  And now there is an informational video at my YouTube channel to go along with it.  Feel free to check it out. ************************************************************************* Out of Touch (Touch of Gray - Book One) available on Amazon Kindle and Google Books   OOT YouTube informational video Invisible Touch (Touch of Gray - Book Two) available on Amazon Kindle and Google Books  IT YouTube informational video

Touch of Gray takes place in a country that uses a 13-month calendar.  To give you an idea of what the months look like, below is a generic (not year specific) look at said calendar. I don't have a date converter to show you (because I'm not that talented). You can picture me with a paper calendar and the book calendars I created and counting the weeks and days (week 16-Tues, week 24-Fri, etc.) in order to compare dates. Cause, I'm old school... *************************************************************************** I have re-recorded the informational video for Out of Touch (Touch of Gray - Book One) and uploaded it to YouTube .  Invisible Touch (Touch of Gray - Book Two) will have it's informational video re-recorded and uploaded to YouTube within a week.  A new informational video for Wild and Wicked Ways (World of Touch of Gray 01) will be created and uploaded to YouTube at the end of January.  Enjoy! Out of Touch available on Amazon Kindle and Go...

Here is the character list from Wild and Wicked Ways (Wendy Weather 1; World of Touch of Gray 1) which is available now on Amazon Kindle .  Wild and Wicked Ways continues Wendy's story from Invisible Touch. Obviously, spoilers below for both Wild and Wicked Ways and Invisible Touch. ___________________________________________________________________ CHARACTERS Psycepts : Wednesday (Wendy) Randolph – PsyWitch and Vodun Priestess, twin sister of Sully. Member of the Psycept Council of Albuquerque. Diego Escudero – Weather Guide and son of Gloria Escudero, the head of the Psycept Council Tiko MacGillivray – Bone Sage, oldest of the MacGillivray siblings (aka Brother Bone) Libby MacGillivray – Blood Sage, specializes in blood analysis (aka one of the Sisters Wyrd) Vito Mata – Asomatous and a member of the Psycept Council Maddie - flora PsySapient Police : Sulien (Sully) Randolph – Detective Sergeant of the Psycept Police of Albuquerque, twin brother of Wend...