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: Areaer (Anidril System, #2)

Hi! Next Saturday will be more HEART OF FIRE art, just before the release... For now, here's Areaer. Areaer is Anidril's second planet. Very similar in size, composition, and year to our Earth, if you somehow found yourself on Areaer, perhaps the first clue that you were somewhere new would be the night sky, full …

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Art for HEART OF FIRE: Camilla, Rider of Radiance

Hello! It is time for another Art Saturday! This time we have the first picture featuring a human's face that I ever drew and had turn out remotely right. This was sketched in pencil, then inked, and colored digitally. This is Camilla, the main character of Heart of Fire, with the magesword she stole from …

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Review and Fan Art: Sammorien The Moss-Man (The Stories They Told Their Children Anthology) by Izabela Raittila

Sammorien the Moss-Man/The Stories They Told Their Children Series: Anthology Author: Izabela Raittila Genre: Fantasy Mythology Description: This is an anthology of fantasy short stories depicting the culture and beliefs of a fictional continent called the Gragiyan Empire. Inspired by the works of J.R.R.Tolkien and various European myths, these mythical tales follow powerful deities known …

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Art of HEART OF FIRE: Kario Flameheart – Chosen of the Obsidian Guardian

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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Art for HEART OF FIRE: My Brother and His Dragon

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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Art for HEART OF FIRE – A Cozy Scene: Camilla Watching Radiance

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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Moodboards and Launch: Kindred of the Sea is available!

Hello! This is the day Kindred of the Sea comes out! The ebook is still $2.99, it's available from most retailers, including Amazon Kindle, and for some reason Amazon isn't carrying the Illustrated Edition of the Paperback, so I'm going to have to figure out what I might be able to do about that. Here's …

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