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Continue reading →: Killing Me Softly With Adverbs
Today, I want to discuss a pet peeve–adverbs. When I find adverbs propping up weak verbs in the indie stories I read, it makes me want to sit down with the author for a chat. Here’s what I’d say: find your adverbs and get rid of them. Then replace the weak…
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Continue reading →: Enchanters Would Like the Look
Check out the new appearance, organization, and artwork for LitaBurke.com. The facelift features a cleaner look with easy links of the left side of the page. The blog posts now show tags and other info on a crisp white background to make them easier on the eyes. The banner artwork has…
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Continue reading →: Review: The Hobbit
The Hobbit by J.R.R. Tolkien The Hobbit is a long-time favorite story from the master of the epic fantasy genre. Against all odds, a very small hobbit goes on a journey and along the way meets with trolls, a dragon, and other dangers. View all my reviews
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Continue reading →: Wrath on Barnes & Noble
Wrath, Prequel to Tredan’s Bane, is now available for the Nook on Barnes & Noble. Check it out at http://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/wrath-prequel-to-tredans-bane-lita-burke/1108034758?ean=2940013855816
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Continue reading →: Wrath on Amazon
Wrath, Prequel to Tredan’s Bane, is now on Amazon. Check it out at http://www.amazon.com/dp/B006NY2SZC
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Continue reading →: 6 Critical Elements for Fantasy World Building (Part 3)This is the third of a 3-part blog post about building rich fantasy worlds to immerse your readers. In part 1 we looked at two “big picture” elements: maps and politics. Part 2 was a “medium” view about wimpy food and eavesdropping. This time we’ll talk about a couple of…
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Continue reading →: 6 Critical Elements for Fantasy World Building (Part 2)This is the second of a 3-part blog post about building rich fantasy worlds to immerse your readers. In part 1 we looked at two “big picture” elements in building a fantasy world: maps and politics. Today we will take a “medium-sized” view and see why meat and grog are…
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Continue reading →: 6 Critical Elements for Fantasy World Building (Part 1)World-building techniques have always fascinated me. High Fantasy and Epic Fantasy books were my delight as a young reader. I poured over the maps on the book’s end papers, studied every entry in the glossary in the back, even marveled over the lengthy character name lists in the front. When…
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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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