Just before Christmas I got my book cover for book three in my teen fantasy trilogy. I’m so excited with how it turned out. The cover is beautiful, as alwasy, designed by the amazing and talented Kirk DouPonce of DogEared Design. Book covers are very important, aren’t they? When I’m walking though a store or… Continue Reading
Maps for Stories
I have a question for those of you who love fantasy, science fiction, and other speculative genres. How many of you, when you pick up a book like this, turn to the front pages to see if there is a map? I do. I love maps. And if there isn’t a map in the front of… Continue Reading
The Safe Lands
Okay… After a long, long time with my Sakura Micon pens, I finished my dystopian map. I still have some brainstroming to do here, but this is a futuristic land where a disease has killed off a huge percentage of the world’s population. So the government built this walled-in city as a way to protect the people.… Continue Reading
Two New Storyworlds Do Battle: Belfaylinn and The Safe Lands
Having been home with the kids, who are on vacation from school, writing has been a challenge. So I figured, why bother? Even if I drag my laptop around the house, I still don’t get much done with all the chaos. So instead, I’ve been daydreaming. 🙂 I have two new story ideas doing battle in… Continue Reading
A Bit About Heraldic Flags
Heraldic flags display coats of arms, badges, or other images for the purpose of personal identification. Each color and symbol represented something specific. Bright colors tended to be a sign of nobility, since dyes were expensive. Think of a school’s colors and mascot. Heraldic flags did the same thing. They identified people with a certain… Continue Reading
Book Cover for Book Three, From Darkness Won
I just got it. Isn’t it beautiful? Kirk DouPonce is a brilliant designer. 🙂
My Adventure Making Blood of Kings Banners
When my online reader/writer friends made a live-action book trailer for To Darkness Fled, I wanted to do something nice to thank them. They all had my books already, so that was out. Then an idea came to me. I could make them each a medieval banner for the city the character was from that… Continue Reading
Merry Christmas vs. Happy Holidays
Hi Novelteen gang! Heather here. Merry Christmas! Is it too early to say that? Nah. I throw in a “Merry Christmas” whenever I get the chance! I realize “Happy Holidays” is a bit more politically correct. But I have a smidgen of a problem with that. To me, the holiday is all about Christmas. Trying to remove the “Christmas”… Continue Reading
Home for the Holidays
November is nearly over and the temperature outside is -12*. Yet on the inside I feel incredibly warm. Thanksgiving week brought an ice storm that broke records which had been set in 1936. The storm also forced us to stay home. The cool thing is that my daughter and her family were visiting from Alabama… Continue Reading
Book Trailer: To Darkness Fled
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The release of the To Darkness Fled book trailer!
Tonight! The release of the To Darkness Fled book trailer is 7:00 PM central time at the NightWing tribe chat box. Link is http://nwtribe.chatango.com/ 5:00 PM pacific time 6:00 PM mountain time 8:00 PM eastern time Be there to see the trailer on the very hour that it is released!
Try Darkness by James Scott Bell
Review by Jill Williamson Ty Buchanan is recovering from his fiancé’s death by living at St. Monica’s parish in the hills of Southern California. Since he no longer works for the big law firm—and to help earn his keep—he offers legal aid to parishioners and the underprivileged. When one of his new clients is murdered,… Continue Reading