Category : fantasy

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Today I am participating for the first time in Snippet Sunday. Here are just a few lines from Questionable Queen, the sequel to Pigsty Princess. Royal Princess Ursula, the sister of Queen Mariana, heroine of Pigsty, has gone to see her mother after agreeing to marry the King of Heyton, a country Valborough has been …
Geek girls – Real or Fake? The idea of the “Fake Geek” – usually a girl – has popped up on my radar recently and I did some searching and found this article: Dear Fake Nerd Girls, Go Away Basically, the article says that if you want to call yourself a nerd or a geek, …
I’ve been trying to follow my plan of writing at least 1,500 words per day. Now, I’m not doing perfectly but I keep trying. All of this is rough, but here is another excerpt from what I’m working on. Arrowbreaker sat at Germian’s bed side, but today she smiled. Greenblade brought them a tray covered …
I haven’t read all of these, but here is a list of fantasy novels that include dragons. Maybe you’ll find something you like. 1. The Serpent Kings – First in a series, which is always good to know. The blurb on Goodreads says: “Gwen has only ever known life as a priestess of the High …
I’m working on the sequel to Sword and Illusion, Sword & Incantation. I don’t want to give much away about the first book because it’s been out for just a few months and I don’t want to spoil anything. The second book centers around Greenblade, Prince Varian’s daughter he didn’t know he had, and her …
A couple of months ago, one of our priests, Father Andrew, a young, fairly new priest, announced that he was being transferred. It was very unexpected and in fact, he only had one more week with us. This is very unusual because the general practice is that the new priests are ordained in May and …
Life is getting exciting here but a little baffling at the same time. Last March, and I may have blogged about this, I went to the Jambalaya Jubilee conference in Houma, LA. It’s a small conference held in a public library, and this was the second time I went. This year I pitched Sword & …
I read a fabulous post by SciFiChick today – A Small Rant about Fantasy Reviews. Her point is that when fantasy novels are reviews they are almost invariably compared to someone else’s book and generally unfavorably. She asks if this happens in other genres. I’ve never seen anything like this with romance novels. Has anyone …
Lots of interesting stuff is going on. WRITING UPDATE: HeartLA has its monthly meeting today. It’s always fun to get together with other writers. We have a couple of members who are “characters” and one was in fine form today, which made for an interesting meeting, but otherwise, it was great. We had several visitors, …
I don’t often write about spiritual stuff on this blog, but I am a devout Catholic Christian and sometimes things come up that I think need to be discussed. I found this article written by a fellow Catholic author, Pete Vere, and with all the hoopla that has gone on about Harry Potter for so …
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