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Continue reading →: String ’em Up SyndromeI have been line editing the first Clockpunk Wizard story I drafted eighteen years ago. I’m embarrassed with my findings. Why didn’t anyone tell me? This manuscript shares a problem with many indie stories I’ve read in recent years. The issue is with how to describe actions. My early Clockpunk Wizard manuscripts, and these other…
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Continue reading →: Tredan’s Bane Trailer in You Gotta Read Contest
The book trailer for Tredan’s Bane is in the July contest at You Gotta Read. Voting is open all week–winners will be announced July 27th. If you love the Tredan’s Bane book trailer, be sure to vote by this Thursday. You Gotta Read July Book Trailer Contest
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Continue reading →: Fantasy World Building: PunkingLet’s talk today about world building and three fantasy genres: steampunk, cattlepunk, and clockpunk. These “punk” worlds use elements from classic fantasy and mix them with historical speculative fiction. Steampunk Steampunk is a fantasy sub-genre with its chronological setting in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. The physical settings are…
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Continue reading →: Launch Party is Over
Look at the time. We stayed late. A wonderful time was had by all. Thank you for coming by and talking about Tredan’s Bane. Goodnight, Gentle Reader.
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Continue reading →: Giveaway for Tredan’s Bane
Time to give away an ~autographed~ paperback copy of Tredan’s Bane. Time to let my story about Enchanters go out into the world. But do you have the knowledge to win a free copy? Yes. The magic is in your hand (the one holding the mouse, that is). This book giveaway…
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Continue reading →: Afterlife and Crypt MagicTredan’s Bane explores the magical politics between two rival factions: the Enchanters and the Churchies. In Sye, magical power has been formally split between the two camps. Enchanters create magical essence that all persons (and many creatures, such as dragonettes) need for survival. The Church magicians see to the matters of…
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Continue reading →: Cake Magic for Sye’s Enchanters
I could hardly wait to compose this pic and share it with my book launch party attendees. There is magic in this mundane world, and today the magicians created a big version of Tredan’s Bane from chocolate cake. I’m off to write the post about the Churchies’ magic, and explain…
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Continue reading →: Secret Names are Magical KeysThere’s power in knowing the names of people, objects, and ideas. Secrets also have power. Combine these two elements in a fantasy like Tredan’s Bane, and a Secret Name becomes the key to a wizard’s magic. How Name Magic Starts The Secret Name is the closest-kept magic for an individual. …
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Continue reading →: Why do Dragonettes Coo?
Tredan’s Bane and Wrath feature dragonettes. They talk, of course, but why do they coo and sound like doves? Mindy, shown here with her favorite book, suggested it. Her purr is a cooing lilt, just the way a dragonette would sound when happy. I have to go pick up the…
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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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