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  • Kisses are Magical Hanky-Panky

    February 14th is the official “Kiss an Enchanter Day” here at Lita’s castle. Before we get all distracted with the pleasurable mechanics, let’s talk about the psychology of smooches in Lita’s fantasy world of Sye. Sye’s magical essence kisses are a cornerstone in Wrath, and Tredan’s Bane. These stories look at the spell casting and…

  • Review: Stones (Data)

    Magical mysticism and paranoia about the near-future Internet. What a delicious fantasy world! Today Lita shares a recent excellent read about a young man who finds a magic stone and battles an ego-centric corporate mage who will destroy Matt if he doesn’t help create a loathsome future for humanity. Stones (Data) by Jacob Whaler is…

  • Fantasy Boy of Winter: Jack Frost

    Burr, it’s wintertime outside of Lita’s castle here in the northern realms. Someone painted icy filigree on the windows. Let’s bundle up, go outside, and meet the artist.  Say hello to handsome Jack Frost, winter’s fantasy boy. This magician embodies lacy window paintings, trees draped with sparkling snow, and crystalline sculptures made of ice. He tosses about sheets…

  • Praised by Readers’ Favorite with Multiple 5 Star Reviews: Lita Burke’s Tredan’s Bane

    Welcome to that sensual fantasy world of Lita’s, the Enchanters of Sye. Come take a look at the new goings-on about Tredan’s Bane. Readers’ Favorite recently read Lita’s epic fantasy, Tredan’s Bane, and praised it with lovely 5 star reviews. In Tredan’s Bane, a magical oddities dealer hides her kidnapped husband’s dangerous spell book. Immerse…

  • 2013 Lita Burke Blog in Review

    The WordPress.com stats helper monkeys prepared a 2013 annual report for the “About the Fantasy Worlds of Lita Burke” blog. The year 2013 draws to a close, and tonight it will be party time for Lita and many others. Let us first indulge in some sober reflection (apologies for the wicked pun) before we open…

  • Concerning Unicorns in the Clockpunk Wizard World

    Time to set the facts straight about this four-legged sentient creature with a long spiral horn on its forehead. If Gentle Reader were to cast a searching spell about unicorns in our fantasy world called internet, the spell would say that unicorns are made-up bits of fantasy fluff. Lita says horse feathers (with apologies to…

  • Come See These Shiny Things: Old Bony Blue Eyes Book Trailer

    Grab your crystal ball. Text to your friends. Come see the shiny things from Wizard Kadmeion’s trip to Sir Death’s castle. Lita’s video for Old Bony Blue Eyes is in the December 2013 You Gotta Read book trailer contest. More than bragging rights at stake here. The top three videos win valuable marketing and promotion…

  • Interview: Lita Burke Tells the Secret Formula for Indie Author Marketing

    Lita has been away from the microphone for a while. It’s time for Lita to dress her best and talk about Clockpunk and Fantasy. Swing over to JeriWB’s blog and get the scoop in her latest post Author Interview: Lita Burke. Find out all sorts of curious things about Lita’s writing life: What motivates Lita to write fantasy?…

  • Review: Place of Many Birds

    This is the last review for Lita’s three recent reads. These short stories of rural Australia in the 1930s are not fantasy, but they nonetheless create vivid characters and worlds. Place of Many Birds by Jan Merry has four short stories that are slice-of-life vignettes about Australia. In the story “Before Winter Comes,” children just home…

  • Book Trailer Contest: Old Bony Blue Eyes

    Oh, to snag those delicious bragging rights. Come see the show, then pick your favorite. The book trailer for Old Bony Blue Eyes is in this month’s contest at Indies Unlimited. Don’t delay, vote for your choice today. Here is your chance to see Wizard Kadmeion, his half-elf assistant Sir Bright, and the wizard’s familiar,…