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Happy New Year – & Looking Forward To A Heroic 2022!

.Happy New Year!So great to be checking in with you on the very first day of 2022—I'm hoping for a great year! New horizons for 2022Here on Supernatural Underground (SU) that means more books, more writing and blogging, and—I hope!—more good times together. :-)Over the past few years, inspired by my friend and fellow SU author Amanda Arista, I've been selecting a blogging theme for each year. So

A Season of Celebration—and of Storytelling

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by Amanda Arista, Kim
Falconer, & Helen Lowe.

Best Fantasy Books of 2021

Imagination through Reading Books Country Colors is a piece of digital artwork by Debra and Dave Vanderlaan Hey everyone, Welcome to the holiday season. As the year winds down, I thought it would be fun to reflect on my favoirite reads of 2021.No hype. No guff. Just straight up honest thoughts on the books that delighted me most.To start with, you may recall my first book in the Amassia Series

Have a Holly Jolly...Pickle?

 2021: Year of Forced IntrospectionHoliday traditions are weird and only make sense when put into the context of Christmas cheer. Taken out of context, when removed from the story, they look like the ramblings of a mad man. For example, at what other time of year do we pay to take a picture of a stranger in a strange outfit holding our child.Here in my home state of Texas, there is the Christmas

Magic in Fantasy #12: "The Wall of Night" Series

 .Well, here we are: together we've reached No. 12 in this year's post series on Magic in Fantasy fiction.I've had a pretty good time with it, both the author interviews in the first half of the year, and my reflections on a range of books in the second. So I hope you have as well, on the reading side of the blog. :-)If you want to look back or see what's come before, a compleat list is included

Hanging the Moon

 Waiting on a Bright Moon by Neon Yang - Art by Ann VanderMeerWith the Eclipse just a few days off (sign-by-sign scopes for you here) I thought it would be fun to explore lunar cycles in Fantasy Fiction. I've used these cycles of the moon in all of my novels, as markers of time, signals for powerful events, prophesy, worldbuilding, enhancements of magic... and, I'm not alone.As we explore other

We are all stories in the end...

 2021: Year of Forced IntrospectionI am writing another book. Yes, it has magic. Yes, it has snark. Yes, it is also about the people you consider family. Do I have a brand to uphold? Yes. Will you ever see it? Maybe. It is technically the ninth novel I have written as professional author with people outside of myself editing and conceptualizing right along with me. Nine books professionally, and

Magic In Fantasy: The Magic Next Door

 .Well, I was going to focus on the magic of Halloween—but I have posted on that topic before, albeit a (relatively) Long Blogging Gal Ago: All Hallows EveBesides which, I figure there'll be very many mighty fine posts on the Halloween topic currently out there in the blogging wilds. Not to mention, that if anyone is looking for Books That Go Bump In The Night, right here on Supernatural

Love in the Time of Pandemics

Emere Necromancer by Iga Oliwiak on Art StationFantasy Fiction fulfils a variety of purposes. It can entertain and inspire us, stimulate and awaken us. It can also teach, offering examples of how we, as a species, respond to life-threatening conflict and challenges.It's best not to let the elements of fantasy fool you. Most writers of this genre are constantly exploreing real-world issues in

Magic In Fantasy: The Magic Of SF-nal Worlds

 .Hello October! The
month in which our northern hemisphere peeps are definitely in autumn and
looking forward to Halloween, while here in the south the new green of spring
is everywhere and the days are definitely longer, but there’s still snow on the
mountains..All in all it sounds
rather magical, whether looking forward to the eeriness of Samhein or the
bonfires of Beltane—which brings me to