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Continue reading →: Tredan’s Bane Cover in You Gotta Read ContestExciting news! The eBook cover for Tredan’s Bane is in the October 2012 cover contest at You Gotta Read. Please take a minute to look through the entries and vote for your favorite indie book cover. The winner and runners-up will receive valuable promotional prizes. Support indie authors. Voting closes…
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Continue reading →: Book Trailer for Forever Boy
Here is the just-released book trailer for Forever Boy. Enjoy!
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Continue reading →: eBook Pricing for Indie Fiction (Part 1)I have struggled over the past year to find specific, helpful information for indie authors in pricing their eBooks. Woo boy, have I gotten an earful. After hours of searching and fighting off discouragement, I want to share what I’ve found, plus suggest how to take the mystery out of…
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Continue reading →: Sneak Peek: Forever Boy Cover
Here is the just-finished cover for Forever Boy. I wanted to talk about some of the thoughts that went into its design. I considered, then discarded, several elements. Vitruvian Man? Didn’t work. Hot air balloon? Nope. Curlicue text frames? Looked like a restaurant’s menu cover. So I settled on these design elements: Create a series theme Must have a…
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Continue reading →: Review: Flowers: A Short Story of Love and DeathFlowers: A Short Story of Love and Death by Darnell “Saki” Dickerson George, a high school senior, has some problems. He wrestles with graduation, girl troubles, and his love for sunflowers. As a loser fast on his way to hell, two years ago Chloë said yes to a date and everything…
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Continue reading →: Forever Boy: Back Cover Blurb
I have a release date for the first title in my new Clockpunk Wizard series. Look for Forever Boy on October 30, 2012. To get things started, I’ve posted the book’s back cover blurb. Enjoy! Forever Boy by Lita Burke Life is dirty, difficult, and all too short for the dogs…
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Continue reading →: Dig Dog, and Die
I wanted to talk today about a dog’s occupation you will find in Lita’s forthcoming (next month, in October) story, Forever Boy. I searched for a 15th or 16th century practice involving a hazardous, magic-related activity for dogs. Let me tell you what I found. All in the (Nightshade) Family The…
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Continue reading →: Review: Tea TimeTea Time a short story by Darnell “Saki” Dickerson Ms. May and Ms. Joyce are elderly residents at Crossroads Nursing Home, and we visit them during an afternoon tea served by their caretaker Rob. The women chat, listen to the radio, and tsk-tsk about the sad state of affairs in…
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Continue reading →: Not Just for Werewolves AnymoreHello, Captain Obvious. Let me duck! Ouch. Too slow. I have been working on the first novella (Ephraim’s Curious Device) in my forthcoming Clockpunk Wizard series. All was going well until I started the second round of editing, when an idea smacked me on the forehead. Well, what happened is…
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Continue reading →: Tredan’s Bane Reviewed on Book-O-Matic
Why are characters with murky pasts so appealing? Why doesn’t the cover convey what’s inside? What did Lita get right? Daniel at Book-O-Matic recently read Tredan’s Bane, and posted a review on his blog. Be sure to check out his candid and thoughtful reviews of other books on his blog’s homepage.…
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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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