Cheryl Matthynssens's Blog, page 14

Ups and Downs in the Life of a Writer

So... five hours of travel.... two hours of set up and awesomeness by Theresa Snyder ... to have it pour.  It rained on the 2015 NW Book Festival.  It hasn't rained in weeks and it chooses this day to break that trend.  The upside was that the set up was beautiful.  Theresa did an amazing job with the visuals for our booth.  We even had a board where you could take a picture with her dragon, Farloft.  But due to the rain, as you can see, there was little traffic....

I Hope to Meet You in Portland This Weekend!

Hey all,

I put off surgery so I could attend the NW Book Festival in Portland this weekend.  If you are anywhere close, bring your copy and I will sign it for you.  Theresa and I will be in space 21.  We will have a line of sight view of Starbucks.  So I will have plenty of energy!!

If you have an electronic copy, there is a link on the side here to have me e-sign it.  Not as fun or personal, so stop by and at least say hi!

We will have bookmarks, drawings for free books...

Daezun as a DND Character

I received a request to make Daezun a playable race in the D&D model.   I am not a fan of edition four so the following was made with 3.5 in mind. I have been assured that it would work with 4E as well.   I am honored that I was asked to create a basic format to use the Daezun as a playable race for an rpg game.   Have fun and enjoy!


Outcast http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00H...

Daezun (Daezun are a copyrighted creation and therefore cannot be used in published work with...

Insertion - Live Writing

(Pleaseremember that other than a quick spell check, livewritesare not edited. Theyare warm-upsfor me, glimpses for my readers of the world of Vesta beyond the great isle, and ideas for future novels. I lovefeedbackso if you seesomethingthat you would like me to move to novel ... please let me know.)





Hythinca placed the poultice on her leg and carefully bound it with strips of cloth. She was going to have to admit to King Jesparian that she had again failed to get close to the dwarven king....

Cover Art For Next Book

http://ursatomic.deviantart.com/art/B...

Heather has exceeded my hopes once again.  I hope you will all stop by the link in the caption and give her some positive feedback.  She is considering stopping cover art.  I love her work and hope she will continue to do covers for me and many more authors.

This cover represents when Alador casts the spell his uncle has been seeking for some time.  Rena, one of the dragons that helped with his instruction, hover...

The Inspired Writers! Blue Dragon's Geas Featured.

I had the privilege of being featured on The Inspired Writers blog athored by Merrie Housdon. You can find the feature article here: Day 19 of Fantasy Month: The Blackguard by Cheryl Matthynssens

Get the set of the first three here.

The Inspired Writers Blog is dedicated to the both authors and readers. She occasionally dedicates a whole month to the most requested Genre. You can vote for your favorite genre, or for the genre that you write, check out the Genre of the Month Poll Page. There you...

Relationships between lucid dreaming and creativity

I found this great article on lucid dreaming.  I use lucid dreaming to help me visually paint backgrounds.  A few scenes in the Blue Dragon's Geas series have been as a result of lucid dreaming.  I have gotten pretty good at it.  For those interested in lucid dreaming's connection to creativity, I found an article for you.  There is a full pdf on this connection at :


Relationship between lucid dreaming, creativity and dream charakteristicsNicolas Zink, Reinhard Pietrow...

An Author Update

Emotionally I think I am getting to the best place I have been in weeks.  My motivation is slowly increasing again and I am starting to let go of some of the angst of losing a kidney to my cancer treatment. 
Intellectually - I see the world differently now. My priorities have changed.  My desperation to remain the primary income maker in my home sometimes pushes me to hard and I know it.  I just really don't want this disease to determine Johanna's access to college or goin...

Wisdom of the Dragon Flight

Wisdom of the Flightas told by Alador Guldalian"Dragons are not arrogant, they know they are great. Why -- Arrogance is as close to greatness as humility is to insecurity. Why should one who is great at their part in life pretend they are less than what they are?"Dragon of the Day!

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Just loved it!

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