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Never have I ever tag... the writer's edition

Tag, I'm it. Time for you all to learn all of my deep dark secrets.

First the rules...

Link and thank the blogger who tagged you. Thanks Grace!

Include the graphic somewhere in the post (or make your own!)

Answer the questions truthfully and honestly.

Tag 3 bloggers. To that I reply nah, mate, I'm good. Probably the thing I'm going to become known for in the blogging community is the fact that I never tag anyone. Whoops. Oh well.

Now onto my secrets...

…started a novel that I didn’t finish.

Oh boy have ...

A Little bit of a History Lesson

 

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So today, after announcing my big plans for Ruskhazar last week, I thought I would share a little bit about the Ruskhazarian timeline. As I stated before, all of the books in Ruskhazar take place over about a forty year span of time, but they actually are set in two separate eras.
Ruskhazar itself has four eras.

First Era: The ancient times, there was not even a Ruskhazar at this point. The peninsula was inhabited by two separate clans of feuding e...

What Nicki Did

 Ah so, this was not actually a part of my summer plans. This was sort of an unexpected addition to everything I had going on, but I'm certainly not complaining.

No, I'm not complaining at all.

So I said I was working on two secret WIPs at the beginning of the summer and that was very true. One was A Tale of Gods and Glory and the other I have still yet to announce. However, a couple of months ago I picked up another WIP. And this other WIP is set in Ruskhazar as well.

There's no point in keeping t...

I'm a little bit too much in shock to write a proper title for this blog post so you shall simply have to read it for yourself to find out what I've done this time

 

So... this is finally a reality.

I'm so excited. A Winter Dark and Deadly is published!

AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!

I cannot wait to actually hold the finished copy in my hands. I love that cover so much and to have it finally lined up next to my other books, oh my stars, I'm ecstatic.

As anyone who has been following my writing journey for any extended period of time will know, this story was the bane of my existence for some years. It just wouldn't come out right. That finally changed tis pas...

Writing Update and Official Synopsis

So, it's been a good long while since I've done a proper writing update. Most of the summer to be exact. So what have I been up to this summer? Well, I'm glad you asked.

I finished writing A Winter Dark and Deadly in June, and have spent the last month editing it. It is now on its final editing stage and I hope to publish it in the next two to three weeks (I say this with some measure of disbelief because I find the idea of being done with AWDAD very difficult to comprehend indeed)

I wrote the fir...

Behind the Blogger Book Tag

It's been quite a while since I have done a tag, but I'm super excited to get back into it.

The Rules:

Thank the person who nominated you. Thanks so much Skye! Sorry it took me so long to finally getting around to answering it XD
Answer the questions. 
Pingback to the creator: Ellyn of Allonsythornraxx 
Nominate 5+ bloggers to do the tag. (Now I'm not technically breaking this rule... okay yeah I am. I'm not tagging anyone specific just the first five people who read this)

Why did you start blogging, ...

Introducing my new WIP: A Tale of Gods and Glory

 

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So I'm finally going to be introducing you to one of my secret WIPs (I decided to hold off on announcing the other till I have gotten just a tad more along in it). And no, you did not read incorrectly, this book is indeed set in the same world as Rage Like the Gods. Ruskhazar is an expansive world, housing multiple series and now at least one standalone. There will be other books introduced farther down the line (as in another one I need to intro...

July is over and you know what else is done?

 I finished OSaS!

That is all.

That's the post.

...

Okay fine if you want a little more details, then I shall give you a little more details. It was my Camp NaNo project last month, I wrote 52,000 words in 31 days to be able to get it done. The finished project is 73,000 words, although I'm sure it will not remain exactly that size after edits. Still it holds the title of my shortest full length novel (the previous record holder was Of Golds and Iron itself at 111,000 words). I'll be starting said e...

Meet My Character: Azern Follower of Lady Dawn

 

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Azern is another character from Rage Like the Gods she is sort of an honorary main character. Not officially counted among the gods' chosen ones, Azern was chosen by a demigod instead and given the weighty task of making sure that the gods' chosen saves the world. Along with the roll she plays in RLtG, Azern is the main character in the prequel novella Between Gods and Demigods.

I want to learn every little thing there is to learn about this world ...

Meet My Character: Jaye MacCullagh

 

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Today's character is Jaye and she is actually the only character in this blogging series not from Rage Like the Gods. That's right, Jaye is actually the only POV character from Of Stars and Shadows.

Ravven presses his lips together. “Why, pest, for as ugly and mortal as you are, you certainly think like a faerie.”

I don’t know why, but I am oddly complimented by that even though essentially he is saying that I am evil, conniving, and twisted.

Perso...