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Donna June Cooper

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Hi! I'm Donna June Cooper and I write romance - contemporary romance with a small town feel, a lot of suspense, some laughter, some tears, some fireflies, and a twist of science fiction. My series, the Books of the Kindling, focuses on Woodruff Mountain, the ancient and incomprehensible power beneath it, and the family that has hidden its secrets for centuries.

The first trilogy in the Books of the Kindling series was originally published by Samhain Publishing and I am republishing it with new titles, spiffed up covers, and a bit of a polish, in other words, a rewrite!

The series was originally mislabeled as paranormal. (This was not Samhain’s fault!) It is, instead, contemporary romance with a science fiction twist. I like to call it cozy s Hi! I'm Donna June Cooper and I write romance - contemporary romance with a small town feel, a lot of suspense, some laughter, some tears, some fireflies, and a twist of science fiction. My series, the Books of the Kindling, focuses on Woodruff Mountain, the ancient and incomprehensible power beneath it, and the family that has hidden its secrets for centuries.

The first trilogy in the Books of the Kindling series was originally published by Samhain Publishing and I am republishing it with new titles, spiffed up covers, and a bit of a polish, in other words, a rewrite!

The series was originally mislabeled as paranormal. (This was not Samhain’s fault!) It is, instead, contemporary romance with a science fiction twist. I like to call it cozy science fiction romance - science fiction romance for people who don't think they would like science fiction.

It is not set in space, although I love exploring relationships set out there in the universe and on other planets. And it does not involve alien romance, although I have some favorites in that genre. It is very much contemporary romance with a small town feel, a lot of suspense, some laughter, some tears, some fireflies, and a twist of science fiction.

The next trilogy in the series is ready to go and the final trilogy, along with a few novellas and short stories, is tumbling out of this author's head in the form of outlines and notes and all kinds of good stuff!

It's been a while, but to be honest, I could not abandon this story. Maybe it's a dangerous sign if an author likes reading her own books, but... I do! I love these characters and I love the tale they are telling.

I am so excited to share the continuation of this story with you and even more excited to offer up a prequel novella, free in eBook, to subscribers to my newsletter mailing list. You are going to LOVE this prequel!

Just a bit about me, when I'm not being outpaced by my tiny long-haired Chihuahua on our daily "runs", I'm reading (three books at once), writing (of course!) or complaining about the heat (no matter the temperature). I am a proud child of the Appalachians who was transplanted to Texas by my gorgeous Italian husband, but I return to my mountain roots as often as possible, to Italy whenever I can, and I take you WITH me in the Books of the Kindling.

Come visit me at www.donnajunecooper.com!

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Why the Rewrite?

Basically because fitting a square or actually a spiral-shaped peg into a round hole never turns out well. This entire story, from the prequel to the series end, does not fit in a round hole, or even a well-defined genre. The Books of the Kindling is not a paranormal series, but those who live in […]

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Average rating: 4.35 · 162 ratings · 78 reviews · 5 distinct works

	More Than Magic (Books of the Kindling, #1) 4.17 avg rating — 92 ratings — published 2014 — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Mostly Magic (Books of the Kindling, #2) 4.55 avg rating — 38 ratings — published 2014 — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Making Magic (Books of the Kindling, #3) 4.59 avg rating — 32 ratings — published 2015 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Catching Stars in a Jar (Books of the Kindling, #1) 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — published 2014	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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“Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.”
― Arthur C. Clarke, Profiles of the Future: An Inquiry into the Limits of the Possible

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“What is the use of a house if you haven't got a tolerable planet to put it on?”
― Henry David Thoreau, Familiar letters

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“We need another and a wiser and perhaps a more mystical concept of animals. Remote from universal nature and living by complicated artifice, man in civilization surveys the creature through the glass of his knowledge and sees thereby a feather magnified and the whole image in distortion. We patronize them for their incompleteness, for their tragic fate for having taken form so far below ourselves. And therein do we err. For the animal shall not be measured by man. In a world older and more complete than ours, they move finished and complete, gifted with the extension of the senses we have lost or never attained, living by voices we shall never hear. They are not brethren, they are not underlings: they are other nations, caught with ourselves in the net of life and time, fellow prisoners of the splendour and travail of the earth.”
― Henry Beston, The Outermost House: A Year of Life on the Great Beach of Cape Cod

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May 17, 2014 02:38PM

Jacqueline wrote: "Your book was just recommended to me and I'm purchasing it tonight! Thanks for the 'friend'."

Thank YOU! Your first Hidden Mountain book is on my "to buy" list! :)

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May 17, 2014 02:22PM

Your book was just recommended to me and I'm purchasing it tonight! Thanks for the 'friend'.

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