DragonSword, Return of the Dragonriders Book Three, by Raina Nightingale. A black dragon with red wings rises out of a volcano that is overflowing its mountain. Art by Midnight Rose.

Saturday Art: Cover Reveal for Revised DRAGONSWORD

Hello everyone! I said I hoped to have DragonSword done by December, and here we are, not even half-way through November, and it's done. The paperbacks will probably be ready by January, but for now the lovely art by Midnight Rose for this series finale! Now that you've seen that gorgeous cover, that I think …

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A white dragon with wings outspread flies away from the viewer, bearing a reader on his back, into an evening sky. Below soars a gold dragon with white wings, barely visible.

Saturday Art Cover Reveal: New Cover for Revised DRAGONWING

Hello everyone! This month ends with another Saturday Art, featuring another Cover Reveal, once again by the talented Midnight Rose, and this time for book two in the Return of the Dragonriders Trilogy, DragonWing. (You can see DragonBirth's cover here.) I did, in fact, follow through on having the revised DragonWing ready by November, even …

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Saturday Art Cover Reveal: New Cover for Revised DRAGONBIRTH

Hello everyone! Welcome back to another Saturday Art. This time I have a new cover for DragonBirth, with art by the awesome MidnightRose. In case you haven't heard yet (which isn't unlikely; I don't think I've even mentioned it on the blog yet), I decided the Return of the Dragonriders trilogy could use some revisions. …

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Raina Nightingale's Paths of Fantasy, a blog dedicated to all things fantasy and speculative fiction, from book reviews to essays on world building, characters, and favorite novels.

Saturday Art: Arxeal, the Small Blue Gas Giant (The Anidril System)

Hello! We are back with more Anidril System art! Several years ago, I met James M Geary on Twitter over some sort of WritingQ. I can't remember exactly what it was, but he said something about wanting to see more non-earthlike planets, and I mentioned that I had an ocean planet - Alaer. Several things …

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Raina Nightingale's Paths of Fantasy, a blog dedicated to all things fantasy and speculative fiction, from book reviews to essays on world building, characters, and favorite novels.

Cover Reveal: SCARS OF FIRE (A Captivating Dragon-rider Fantasy)

Hello, everyone! Sorry, no review this week. I promise there will be one next week. Instead, today we have a cover reveal. It just so happen that it's mine. Scars of Fire is the second book in the Dragon-Mage series, which starts with Heart of Fire, a captivating fantasy that explores the relationship between dragon …

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Fantasy art by Raina Nightingale. A storm spirit.

Saturday Art: Storm Spirits of the Plains of Zharda

Hello! I am sharing another bit of concept art I did for one of the creatures or beings in my Areaer world. Here's my imagination of what a Storm Spirit might sometimes appear like. There's a long and complicated story around the Thirteen Spirits of the Storm, and I'm not going to share it all …

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Saturday Art: The Plains of Zharda

Hello, everyone! It's another Art Saturday! This time, we've got a landscape concept art that I painted digitally. The Plains of Zharda lies between the mountains and the western sea, on the continent of Galen. They are cut off from the rest of the continent by the Mountains of the Sun's Rising (as their people …

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