Kathy
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C.L. Schneider:
It's been a while since this was last posted - what are you writing next?
C.L. Schneider
Hi Kathy!
I'm currently working on Nite Fire, the 1st book in an urban fantasy series that I was tinkering with when I was still finishing Magic-Borne.
Nite Fire centers on Dahlia Nite, a half-dragon shapeshifter from a parallel world. When Dahlia's emerging empathic abilities interfered with her job as an assassin, she was condemned by the Queen and sentenced to die. Being half human (and able to shift into human form), she fled her world for the only other one she had a hope of blending in: ours.
The story picks up many years later in the fictional Sentinel City where Dahlia becomes involved in the investigation of a series of unexplained (and seemingly unconnected) brutal murders. The killer’s weapon of choice: spontaneous combustion. Recognizing the mark of one of her own, Dahlia teams with a human detective to solve the case, while struggling to maintain the lies that have kept humanity in the dark for centuries; believing myths and legends were just that.
As Dahlia searches for the truth behind the murders, the bit of peace she’s found in this world starts to unravel.
I sending some to my beta readers this week. I hope to have some early excerpts for Nite Fire posted this summer. I'm also working on a short post-apocalyptic zombie story for an anthology due out over the winter. I also have a lot of ideas for returning to Mirra'kelan (the world I created in The Crown of Stones). One has been lightly plotted. Another I've started on a draft, but have set it aside to concentrate on Nite Fire. You will definitely see more from Mirra'kelan down the road though.
Thanks so much for your question :)
I'm currently working on Nite Fire, the 1st book in an urban fantasy series that I was tinkering with when I was still finishing Magic-Borne.
Nite Fire centers on Dahlia Nite, a half-dragon shapeshifter from a parallel world. When Dahlia's emerging empathic abilities interfered with her job as an assassin, she was condemned by the Queen and sentenced to die. Being half human (and able to shift into human form), she fled her world for the only other one she had a hope of blending in: ours.
The story picks up many years later in the fictional Sentinel City where Dahlia becomes involved in the investigation of a series of unexplained (and seemingly unconnected) brutal murders. The killer’s weapon of choice: spontaneous combustion. Recognizing the mark of one of her own, Dahlia teams with a human detective to solve the case, while struggling to maintain the lies that have kept humanity in the dark for centuries; believing myths and legends were just that.
As Dahlia searches for the truth behind the murders, the bit of peace she’s found in this world starts to unravel.
I sending some to my beta readers this week. I hope to have some early excerpts for Nite Fire posted this summer. I'm also working on a short post-apocalyptic zombie story for an anthology due out over the winter. I also have a lot of ideas for returning to Mirra'kelan (the world I created in The Crown of Stones). One has been lightly plotted. Another I've started on a draft, but have set it aside to concentrate on Nite Fire. You will definitely see more from Mirra'kelan down the road though.
Thanks so much for your question :)
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POIRIER JEANFRANCOIS
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C.L. Schneider:
Nice. So, I suppose you built accomoding to your imagination every elements as specified "items". There is fantastic. Each item, so (please appologyze else) are created under hard submitions of the famous fact of "existance". Each thinks are so "melted" but eshtonatly definined as your own rules : what it will be used, its events' consequences, its appearence, isnt it ?
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