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Continue reading →: 5 Essentials for Writing Fantasy Part 1: Goings-onThis 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…
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Continue reading →: Ephraim’s Curious Device in Book Trailer ContestSee 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…
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Continue reading →: All Aboard for the Floating LandsWelcome 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…
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Continue reading →: New: Lita’s Floating Lands VideoIt’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…
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Continue reading →: Ephraim’s Curious Device featured at Indies UnlimitedLita 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…
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Continue reading →: Steampunk LondonZeppelins. Top hats, gears and gadgets. What fun–let us explore Steampunk and its stylish attitudes. Time to visit another fantasy world that Lita loves–Steampunk. There are a couple of flavors of Steampunk, so today let’s visit the Victorian-inspired place. It is brimming with alternative technology gadgets powered by steam, and populated with…
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Continue reading →: Enchanter KissesLet’s observe Valentine’s Day today and talk about one of Lita’s favorite subjects–Enchanter magical essence kisses. It’s been some time since Lita has talked about the Enchanters in the Sye world. Here’s a quick recap, then we will get back to magical hanky-panky. Sye is a world where the Enchanters, Church…
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Continue reading →: Sneak Peek: Old Bony Blue Eyes Cover
Lita’s next Clockpunk Wizard story, Old Bony Blue Eyes, has its new face–here is the eBook cover. In the previous story Ephraim’s Curious Device, Wizard Kadmeion and his assistant Sir Bright first met the dragon named Lady Betrayal and had her help them find Ephraim’s magical thingummy. The dragon returns in…
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Continue reading →: 3 Reasons Why Fiction Writers Worry ExtrovertsLet’s talk today about how us introverted fiction writers vex our outgoing opposites. At best, extroverts wonder why we’re so silent. At worst, we fade away. Lita recently read an article describing the differences between introverts and extroverts. The blog suggested fiction writers are introverts. Of course, we are. Let us explore…
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Continue reading →: Forever Boy Book Trailer in You Gotta Read ContestWoo hoo! It’s time to go to the (book trailer) movies! Lita’s Clockpunk Wizard video for Forever Boy is in the January 2013 You Gotta Read book trailer contest. The top three winning videos win valuable marketing and promo prizes–so important for an indie author. Please take a minute to…
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Enchanters of Sye Books
A retired Enchanter battles a powerful magician to keep a dangerous spell book from falling into the wrong hands.
A magical oddities dealer hides her kidnapped husband’s dangerous spell book.
Clockpunk Wizard Books
A dog flees his cruel master, befriends a wizard, and discovers his shapeshifting magic.
A wizard seeks a magical thingummy to free his kidnapped familiar.
A wizard faces a dangerous journey to Sir Death’s castle to win a powerful spell book for a love-starved dragon.
A wizard and Lady Luck’s young daughter discover the cause of a mysterious unicorn illness.
An elf prince’s son teams up with a disgraced wizardling to clear their names with the Magic Guild.
Fantasy Worlds
Evil Circus is a dark carnival filled madness, magic, and grinning clowns.
Steampunk London is a Victorian-styled world powered by steam engines.
Floating Lands are an eerie place of unexpected lighter-than-air denizens and islands in the sky.
Film Noir is a dreary, crime fiction world filled with down-and-out heroes, cynicism and vice.
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