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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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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HEART OF FIRE is Available Now! The next epic dragonrider fantasy!

Heart of Fire, Book One of the Dragon-Mage series, is available now! If you've been longing for a new epic dragon fantasy, but would really like that's really character-driven and focused on relationships without as many fight scenes as you usually get ... THIS IS YOUR THING! Get it from your preferred retailer here A …

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Art for HEART OF FIRE: Camilla, Dragon-Mage

Hi everyone! Heart of Fire comes out tomorrow (April 16th), and I am back with another art piece for Heart of Fire. This time, by another artist, the lovely MidnightRose. Here is Camilla, standing in front of some bushes and shrubbery with a few butterflies flying around, on a windy fall day, with her magic …

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Art for HEART OF FIRE: Sylvara, Rider of Shimmer

Hello! It is another Art Saturday for Heart of Fire, with another character portrait drawn by yours truly. Sylvara, like Camilla, was born and grew up in the forests of Ilesh, one of many human slaves kept by the Wood Elves of Ilesh. She is about the same age as Camilla, and has always been …

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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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