Hello! It is my pleasure to introduce you to Ashley Capes today, an epic fantasy author with a new trilogy on Kickstarter. Here's what Ashley has to say about eirself: Hi, I'm Ashley, an Australian novelist, poet and teacher. This is my third Kickstarter project and I've been writing since before my teen years (as …
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This coming Wednesday is the Cover Reveal for Heart of Fire so for this Saturday Art post, I will be sharing another hand-drawn digitally-coloured picture, this one of the secondary main character in the Dragon-Mage series, of which Heart of Fire is book one. Kario comes from a semi-nomadic people who live in the sheltered …
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Return of the Griffin Series: The Hybrid Helix, Turn Two Author: JCM Berne Genre: Space Fantasy Book Description: Humanity faces extinction. Ten-kiloton monsters are rising from the depths of the Pacific, levelling entire cities in frenzies of destruction. Earth’s heroes have been decimated. The survivors put their hope in one last, desperate plan: find Hyperion, …
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“Research, and get your research right.” “What's the most recent thing you researched for your novel?” What if that research is wrong? This question is posed by the fact that I happen to have some first-hand experience with … horses. And I was recently reading a book where someone who had recently been turned into …
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Art Saturday is back, and the second in the series is another piece I did by hand, and colored digitally, for Heart of Fire. This one features a face, and this is a sign of my unexpected victory over "the inability to draw a human face that looks remotely the way I intended it to. …
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Followed By Fire Series: The Incineration Saga, #1 Author: McKenzie Austin Genre: Fantasy Book Description: A witch, a demon, and a priest walk into a tavern … Wait, no. A war. Yeah. It's definitely a war. In Brigovia, the cobblestones run warm with the blood of humans, demons, and enchanters alike. And with each body …
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Hello! It's Appreciate A Dragon Day on January 16th, whatever that's supposed to mean. I never understand all these, "It's a day for this, it's a day for that, it's a day for the other thing." A day is whatever you make it be. But I do love dragons. And dragon books. Or dragon in …
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Hello! It's been quite a while ago since I did an Art Saturday, but they are back for a while! I did a handful or two of sketches for my new release, Heart of Fire, and I took to coloring some of them. We're launching off with those one, which is the only one that's …
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The Dragon's Tongue Series: A Long-Forgotten Song, #2 Author: C.J. Brightley Genre: Urban Dystopian Fantasy Book Description: While hiding with Lord Owen, the Fae, and the human resistance, Aria is forced to question everything she thought she understood. What are the Fae? Who is Aria herself? More than refuge, Aria needs answers. Despite the appeal …
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I don't rate my reviews. At first, all I knew about why I decided not to rate my reviews, and to (with occasional exceptions) only post reviews to my blog (which I can do whatever I want with) and to sites that don't require ratings, was that I could never decide what I wanted to …
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Enthralled By Love 