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March 21, 2016
Episode 8: Friends, Acquaintances, and Nemeses
The Multiverse Chronicles Season One:EpisodeEight “Friends, Acquaintances, and Nemeses”Episode 8 of The Multiverse Chronicles is now up! :-D
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A horse-drawn cart—loaded down with supplies and a sleeping pterosaur—ambled over a series of potholes in a well-worn road. A warm breeze ruffled the fields of barley on either side, the lazy sun painting the land vivid gold. The cart bumbled along, its two sorrel mares uninterested in the stiffness of their cart’...
March 16, 2016
Behind the Scenes – In the Camp
This is a cover for Melange Books‘young adult imprint. For this cover, the author wanted a symbol rather than a scene, and in their art form they mentioned that their story revolves around elves using nature to reclaim the modern human cities after a devastating war. Based on that, and since the author said that there was a phone that played a large role in the story, I tinkered with the idea of having an old, cracked phone on the cover.
Vines partially cover the phone (showing nature beginni...
March 11, 2016
Episode 7: Perplexing Conundrums
The Multiverse Chronicles Season One:EpisodeSeven “Perplexing Conundrums”Episode 7 of The Multiverse Chronicles is now up! :-D
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Captain John Bess rolled his letter into a thin tube and shoved it into a small green canister. He screwed the canister shut, strapped it onto a pigeon, and checked that the harness was tight. Then he opened the cage and sent the pigeon on its way.
Your Majesty,
It is with a heavy heart that I inform you that your daughter, P...
March 9, 2016
Thoughts on Publishing – Infinitas Publishing Status Report
Normally I’d have posted this last week, but since I was doing a cover reveal on the designated post day, I decided to do the report today, instead. :-)
The Shadow War: Not much progress in regards to actually writing this one, however, Isaac and I have discussed the idea of splitting The Shadow Warinto two books. Seeing as how it’s already at 45,000 words, (with the series meant to be a set of novellas) and it’s only going to get longer, I’m inclined to agree.
So I’ve been doing a lot of plo...
March 7, 2016
Thoughts on Publishing – A Video Blog Post – Reading Chapter Fourteen of Magic’s Stealing
Today I’m reading chapter fourteen ofMagic’s Stealing and showing off the first wooden board for the our upcoming game, Phalanx (Check out our Facebook page to see a couple sneak peek pictures!) Enjoy! :-D
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March 2, 2016
Cover Reveal for A Fellow Author – The Goat Children!
Today I’m doing a cover reveal for fellow author, Jordan Elizabeth! I didn’t make this cover, but I quite like how it looks!
In the meantime, onward to the reveal! Take it away, Jordan…
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GOAT CHILDREN
A YA Novel with a touch of Fantasy
When Keziah’s grandmother, Oma, is diagnosed with dementia, Keziah faces two choices: leave her family and move to New Winchester to care for Oma, or stay in New York City and allow her grandmother to live in a nursing home miles away.
The dementia causes...
February 29, 2016
Thoughts on Publishing – A Video Blog Post – Reading Chapter Thirteen of Magic’s Stealing
Today I’m reading chapter thirteen ofMagic’s Stealing, and I reveal a few sneak peeks of our upcoming game,Phalanx!
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February 26, 2016
Episode 6: A Royal Murder
The Multiverse Chronicles Season One:EpisodeSix “A Royal Murder”Episode 6 of The Multiverse Chronicles is now up! :-D
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Alia ambled along the iron fence of the courtyard of the Charlottenburg Imperial Palace, her slick black boots clicking against the diagonal brick. The night air echoed with raucous laughter, but all the guests were inside, celebrating with the prince and his family. Hours ago, applause had burst forth from the palace’s open doors, afte...
February 24, 2016
Thoughts on Writing – Formatting Telepathy in a Novel
There’s a section I’m currently working on formatting in Distant Horizon, which has a lot to do with telepathy. And of course, that had me puzzling over the best way to format telepathy.
Originally, I had planned to designate telepathic sections using colons and italics, like this:
:This is a thought that you hear in your head,: thebloggerthought to her readers.
However, I had several beta-readers say they didn’t like that formatting (never mind that I loved it in Mercedes Lackey’sMagic’s Paw...
February 22, 2016
Thoughts on Publishing – A Video Blog Post – Reading Chapter Twelve of Magic’s Stealing
Well, I think I’m finally starting to get the hang of using Premiere Pro and the new microphone. Sort of. I figured out that if I sat it in a pile of soft fabric (a.k.a. the bed), that it wouldn’t pick up the hum of the computer, and so the recording is a lot cleaner. At least until the water heater kicks on, and then all bets are off. *Sigh.* Ididremember to turn off the main heater before I started recording though. And thanks to Isaac editing the play through video for Battle Decks, I figu...
