Lita Burke

Review: Becoming a Superhero

Becoming a Superhero, Based on a True Story by Oliver Galang Warning: This story has some occasional adult language. Becoming a Superhero was a coming-of-age tale about a drifting young man from a military family lost in a mire of gambling, prostitutes, and depression. It was also a humorous telling about the whims of peer pressure and finding a memorable psychologist.…

New: Lita’s Cirque du Méchant Video

This month, Lita invites Gentle Reader to visit to the dark side of fantasy–the Wicked Circus. Cirque du Méchant is a dark carnival filled madness, magic, and killer clowns. Take a peek into the fantasy world where the Calliope screams its steamy waltz, and you see the monsters under the grease paint. Enter here for the Cirque…

New Cover for Forever Boy

The last new cover for the spring clean takes you to the Clockpunk Wizard fantasy world in Forever Boy. There you will find Wizard Kadmeion’s ~twisty~ magic. Life is dirty, difficult, and all too short for the dogs digging up the deadly mandrake roots that wizards animate with minor demons. A pup named Go Fer has an…

New Cover for Tredan’s Bane

The spring clean for the old book covers continues. Here is the new cover for Tredan’s Bane. In Tredan’s Bane, a dead Sciomancer told Lanith to beware of fire and kisses. He should have told her to RUN. Enchanters are so attractive, most believe they are amoral seducers. The Church considers them a dangerous lure for…

New Cover for Wrath, Prequel to Tredan’s Bane

It’s April, and time for a spring clean. Pardon the dust. Let’s open some windows and chase away the musty look of tired book covers. Some of Lita’s covers were long overdue for a rework. Wrath, Prequel to Tredan’s Bane was Lita’s first indie short story. To say Wrath had a shoestring budget is generous. The reality for…

5 Essentials for Writing Fantasy Part 1: Goings-on

This is the first of a five-part series about fantasy writing craft. These posts explore five techniques for composing the story’s narrative passages. Events. Activities. Story happenings. Writing about the goings-on is the most basic technique for showing the plot. Most début stories fall victim to goings-on problems. Lita has good news. The goings-on problems are easy to…

Ephraim’s Curious Device in Book Trailer Contest

See for yourself the fantastic images on Wizard Kadmeion’s journey to free his kidnapped familiar. Lita’s Clockpunk Wizard video for Ephraim’s Curious Device is in the March 2013 You Gotta Read book trailer contest. The top three videos win valuable marketing and promo prizes–so important for an indie author. Please take a minute to vote for your…

All Aboard for the Floating Lands

Welcome aboard. This airship is now departing to the place where flying islands drink clouds, pigs soar, and lovely Harpies rule their rock-spire land. Find out more about the fantasy locales where islands float and we visit with a horse we all know. You will also learn the one thing that most wizards cannot resist. Watch your step…

New: Lita’s Floating Lands Video

It’s time to roll out another of Lita’s fantasy worlds–Floating Lands. This month is a look at lighter-than-air islands, levitating people, and soaring cows. Check out Lita’s just-released Floating Lands video. Been There, Done That We have all visited floating lands–do you dream you can fly? When asleep, we soar like a lark or hover like hummingbirds. Sometimes when…

Ephraim’s Curious Device featured at Indies Unlimited

Lita is pleased to tell Gentle Reader that the Indies Unlimited (IU) blog has a featured post about the Clockpunk Wizard world in Ephraim’s Curious Device. Please take a minute to stop by, look around, and if in the mood, leave some comments. IU is a site for independent authors, publishers, reviewers and readers who embrace the sweeping…