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...

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 (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...

Wild and Wicked Ways is the first in the 'World of Touch of Gray' series as well as the first Wendy Weather story featuring PsyWitch Wendy Randolph. Below is an excerpt from the book.  Enjoy! ______________________________________________________________________ From Chapter Three: A draped gurney is in the middle of a large, open room.   The wall to the left of the door holds the body storage cold lockers, four columns of three rows, so twelve in all. There’s a pair of swing doors with Autopsy Room stenciled on the upper frosted glass opposite the door they entered. There is also a large door on the wall to the right of the main door labeled Transport . She supposes it’s a nice set up, not having been inside many morgues. They walk over to the gurney. Before Dr. Rademacher can turn down the sheet to expose the deceased’s face, Wendy makes a motion. “Doctor, my apologies. Can you wait one moment? Vito?” Vito is standing at the left foot of the gurney. He’s starin...