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I'm excited to be participating in the 2016 Virtual FantasyCon and hosting a stop on this year's Blog Hop Hunt. If you would like to find out more about the Hunt, please click here - http://vfcscavengerhunt.weebly.com.

Somewhere on this page is a hidden number. Collect all the numbers from all the authors’ posts, and then add them up. Once you’ve added all the numbers, and if I am your last author, please head to the official website and click on the ENTER HERE page to find the entry form. Only entries will the correct number will qualify to win.

The author I’m pleased to be hosting for Virtual FantasyCon’s Blog Hop Hunt today is Scarlett Van Dijk, author of the Sky Stone series. Without further ado, let's turn this over to Scarlett!

Stories take us to new worlds. They allow us to discover new things, imagine ourselves as princesses or princes, knights and wizards, lovers or demons. As writers, we truly live in those worlds. We live in them for months, sometimes years, imagining what scenarios we may encounter and who we might meet. For a fantasy author, it’s about creating a world where we can escape from reality and find a place where our soul belongs. At least, that was how it was for me when I started writing the Sky Stone series.

I wish to share my world with you, give you a glimpse into a land I have lived in for the last eight years. So, here is just a short introduction to the first two novels in the Sky Stone series, Sky Stone and Guardian Core:

Skyla is a seventeen-year-old girl who doesn't believe she belongs on Earth, so it feels like a dream when she is suddenly whisked away to Branzia and given the special abilities of a Sky Guardian. Branzia, a land separated from the rest of Earth due to the presence of magic. The dream soon becomes a nightmare when she discovers that this new land is besieged by war and that she has been given a destiny by the gods to end the fighting. Even so, Skyla discovers she does have a place in the world and a mission only she can accomplish with friends she never would have found in the Outside world. She quickly becomes a legend throughout Branzia as the fire-wielding Phoenix.

Despite her new-found strength, it turns out that the main thing which drives her forward, is also her greatest weakness. Even with the war over, it seems the gods still aren't finished with her. The fate of all Sky Guardians rests on her shoulders, but with her greatest weakness exposed, she has trouble protecting just herself. She will need to mend her heart, or the true fight will be over. When the existence of a previous Phoenix emerges, Skyla wonders whether history is repeating itself... and will she suffer the same fate as her [16] predecessor?

Thank you for reading! To learn more about the Sky Stone series and my writing, please see my website: http://www.scarlettvandijk.com/

Find Amazon buy links for the Sky Stone series on my Amazon author page: http://www.amazon.com/Scarlett-Van-Dijk/e/B00MS94J80/

I’m always happy to chat to other author or interested readers. You can easily find me on many social media platforms:

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/scarlettskystone

Twitter: https://twitter.com/ScarlyRose (@ScarlyRose)

Google+: https://plus.google.com/u/0/+ScarlettVanDijk/

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/scarlett-van-dijk-93120621

Goodreads: https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/8423101.Scarlett_Van_Dijk

Or you can pop me an email: ScarlyRose@hotmail.com.au


Did you find the number? If you did, then click Scarlett Van Dijk’s link – http://www.scarlettvandijk.com/blog to continue Virtual FantasyCon’s Blog Hop Hunt.