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Category: fantasy
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Pixie Snippet #8
The continuing adventures of a bounty-hunter pixie and his reluctant fairy princess. If you missed the first parts, look here for the links to them. Enjoy! ############ Bella hit a curve at a wild speed and I clutched tighter at her middle. With all the layers in the way, I couldn’t tell if I had…
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Cover-up Follow-Up
Cross-posted over at Amazing Stories Last week I showed some examples of good and bad cover art. Now, if you are an indie author, or a small press publisher, you can’t afford a great cover artist to create bespoke art for your cover. And I’ll tell you something: most traditional publishers don’t bother, either. You…
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Pixie Noir Snippet #7
If you have not been following along, the first snippets are here, and I have the edited manuscript back from my editor, one giant step toward completion. The cover artist has sent me some sketches, and I have re-iterated my desire for art that is gritty, sexy, and noir-ish. Not looking for a scene from…
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Pixie Snippet #6
If you have not been reading along, the first snippets can be found here. ############# “What are we going to do about the troll’s body?” I asked her. “Raven will take care of it.” She pointed and I saw that he was still in giant bird, form, and pecking at the troll. There were a…
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Sunday Snippet: Pixie Noir #5
If you haven’t read the previous snippets, you may want to start here. As always, enjoy! Pixie Noir will be released for sale in ebook and print version Dec 1, 2013, and until then, I will be posting snippets of it here on my blog. ##################### A cackling Raven in man form swung the door…
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Review: Dual Fantasy
I managed to read this week! So exciting. Of course, it was because I was traveling, and then I was sick, so it was the silver lining in the cloud of waiting and misery. But I was really grateful for the paper books I’d managed to accumulate during the writer’s workshop, because I didn’t have…
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It’s Saturday, Right? Snippet up!
I had started out in Underhill, of course, safe at home, my feet propped on the hearth, a good pipe going, and book in my hand. All was right with my world. Then the summons had come, and dragged me all the way out to the end of the world. I knew, lying on that…
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Saturday Snippet: Pixie Noir
Pixie Noir is scheduled to be released Dec. 1, 2013. Now, that’s an exciting sentence for me. You might not understand it unless you read my blog regularly and know that it’s my second novel, and I’m really happy with it. Even better, my beta readers have liked it. Yesterday evening I sent it off…
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What a Day
It has been a day of achievements. My blog post is up at ASM, the Genderless Mind? which I am very pleased with, I did a good bit of research to write that one. Using gender to fully develop characters requires first knowing something about male/female brains and how they differ. I wrote almost 6000…
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The Dwarf’s Dryad
There’s a new story available from me! It’s a fantasy short, something a little different. You can buy it here now, it will be up on Amazon in a few hours. It’s up now! Excerpt: The Dwarf’s Introduction The blacksmith first met her in his shop. He had not seen her come in, hidden in…
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Work of Art
Really, I think my stories are just that, stories. And I make pictures to go with them, sometimes. I’m still a little shy of calling myself an artist. But here’s the picture that goes with the fantasy short story I’m publishing this week. Still making up my mind on the title. It could be Wood…
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Working on a title
I am getting ready to publish this short story, and I don’t have a name for it. Well, I do, but I don’t like it. I’ve been calling it the Smith and the Gardener. Which is accurate enough, I suppose, but cumbersome, and vague. So far the suggestions from beta readers have been good. I’m…