All Blog Posts Tagged 'fantasy' (453)

Most folk believe that technology rules their lives. They’re wrong. Dark conspiracies and ancient magic actually dominate this planet. My one mission in life is to open people’s eyes to that fact.

My name is Ken Magee and I tell people I write contemporary fantasies which blend adventure and humour with technology and magic. My books live under the tagline ‘ancient…

The Blackwell Family Secret: The Guardians of Sin is book 1 in Jonathan L. Ferrara’s YA urban fantasy series. I must say this was a thoroughly enjoyable read, and I can’t wait to read the sequel.

After his parents are killed by a demon, sixteen-year-old Nicholas Blackwell is put under the protection of the Vatican and sent to a boarding school surrounded by a deep…

The Blackwell Family Secret: THE GUARDIANS OF SINS

by Jonathan L. Ferrara

URBAN FANTASY, Young Adult

Publication date: December 5, 2014

Publisher: Dragonwell Publishing

www.dragonwellpublishing.com /…

Wishes and Sorrows is a well-written short story fantasy collection that interweaves myth, magic, romance, and fairytale elements. At times, the writing is darker and bordering on horror.

The 14 stories in this collection range from the melancholic, lyrically written “The Taste of Cherries,” to the chilling “The Train,” to a character study of isolation mingled…

Title:  Wishes and Sorrows

Genre:  Short Stories, Fantasy, Fairy Tales

Author:  Cindy Lynn Speer

Website: http://www.cindylynnspeer.com 

Publisher:  Dragonwell Publishing

Purchase link: …

I have one? http://empyricaltales.blogspot.com/2014/10/my-writing-process.html

October 29, 2014 (Los Angeles, CA) – Oliver Sparrow used his considerable knowledge of events and beliefs in the Peruvian Andes of a thousand years to shape the remarkable and exciting new novel, Dark Sun, Bright Moon. Readers in South America are slamming Dark Sun, Bright Moon because the book explores ancient practices, customs and beliefs that…

Sorrow begins with a mysterious traveler on a mission, secretly carrying a box which contains a precious, powerful weapon.

Then the story moves to Vestiga Gaesi, where we meet Faina, the seductive yet naive fourteen-year old girl with a mysterious past who is staying at the Viscount’s luxurious home — where the story mainly takes place. Then, that night, an important…

, I wrote a medieval novel, Legend of the Mystic Knights.  The premise of this novel is that a pure evil was released in the world in 1100 A.D.  This evil has overrun the world with monsters and creatures that are constantly attacking the humankind.  As a result of these constant attacks, civilization has been stuck in the middle ages for the past 1,000 years.

As I began my quest to write this medieval fantasy novel, I had to make a decision.  Should I use the typical creatures we are…

Set in the fantasy world of Andor, this is the tale of Crossings, a quiet town where people go about their own business and don’t like change.

Ebe, is one of the locals, an elderly widower, living quietly in his cabin,…

Title: Keepers of Runes and the Tower of Shadows

Genre:  Fantasy

Author: Andrew Cratsley

Website:http://www.keeperofrunes.com

Publisher: CreateSpace

Purchase at: …

A great science fiction sequel.

This is the second book in the Eve Project series, and at the beginning, we go back briefly to before book one ‘Machines of the Little People’ to when Kate and Ben were children, and Kate found the wishing stone. It seemed magical, and most…

First I want to talk about how I came to write Revival: The True Fairy Tale. Well, first of all, I am not a writer,I don’t have any Bachelor’s and Master degrees in literature, I’m also dyslexic so I have a hard time with words, for me spelling and grammar is a trial. “Yes” I liked to write, but just things like songs and maybe a little poetry, but one thing I never planned on writing, was a book!

I really just wanted to sing for the Lord after I had got saved, back in 1993; you know…

I hope my book makes you laugh at a really inappropriate moment …enjoy

Cosmogonic Marbles Min. Price Promo for the May Weekend

Pick your copy up for .99c +tax  #comedy #fantasy

 …

Anne Steinberg’s latest novel Manroot is the evocative and stirring story of a lonely town in Missouri, and a young woman named Katherine who discovers a mystical side to herself that she’d never known existed. After Katherine falls in love with a complicated man, the violence of dark magic threatens to annihilate all she knows and holds dear. Anne Steinberg weaves together…

Jay Dubya's young adult fantasy trilogy consisting of the hardcover/paperback novels Enchanta, Pot of Gold and Space Bugs, Earth Invasion are doing well at Booksamillion, at Buy.com and also at Amazon.com

http://booksamillion.com/search?id=5975633884737&type=author&query=Jay%20Dubya

Fairy Tale Fusion - Review by Martha A. Cheves, Author of Stir, Laugh, Repeat; Think With Your Taste Buds; A Book and A Dish

TWIRLED WORDS

She insisted on the value                            

of his bringing the lamp

made of the bright lights

emanating from burning the oil

fit for the literary campaign.

The lascivious and the lame

had sputtered their claim to luck,

surrendered it in fact

to a fiction of empathy

grounded on a story of pluck.

He brought the lamp

and lit her subsequence

with the banter…