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September 16, 2024 · 10:53 am

🪽 – Book Art – The Surprise

Forgot to post last week’s book art, but here we go!

With today’s book art we get to see Nuaka’s human form (at least before she transforms into a mountain bear so she can convince a gryphon that she is not food).

🪽 * The Surprise * 🪽
Wishing Blade Universe

A young woman with a fur cloak looks up in surprise at something beyond the camera. She kneels among ferns and pine tree branches. A ball of turquoise light glows in her upraised hand.

Featuring: Nuaka
Book: The Gryphon and the Mountain Bear (Legends of Cirena #2)
Medium: Daz Studio with Iray, and Photoshop CS6
Description: Nuaka was sneaking through a cluster of ancient ruins in search for treasure. Instead, she stumbles upon on a haughty gryphon.

Journey through the dangers of Cirena’s ancient forests in The Gryphon and the Mountain Bear . . .

🐺 – Book Art – The Wind Mage and the Wolf

Today we have another piece of cover art without the text!

🐺 * The Wind Mage and the Wolf * 🐺
Wishing Blade Universe

A teen with brown hair and a blue cloak walks down an alleyway toward a well-lit door. She holds her hand upright, and blue magic swirls around her fingers. A giant gray wolf walks beside her. Their shadows stretch long behind them.

Featuring: Livena and Nuaka
Book: The Wind Mage and the Wolf (Legends of Cirena #7)
Medium: Daz Studio with Iray, and Photoshop CS6
Description: Though Livena wouldn’t be likely to use her magic quite so openly as she does here, the idea is that she approaches the dangerous undercity of Ashan, ready to find (and rescue) her kidnapped mentor. Beside her, Nuaka takes on a giant wolf form, the better to terrorize those who oppose them (and who happen to know the tales of the fearsome Vorcara, an immortal wolf of legend who helped found Livena’s home city of Maijev).

Sneak through the streets of Ashan in The Wind Mage and the Wolf . . .
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The Gryphon and the Mountain Bear – Now Available!

Fooling a gryphon?

Not on her ideal day of treasure hunting.

But that’s exactly what she’s going to have to do if she wants out of the ruins alive–with her treasure in tow.

The next Legends of Cirena short story is now available as an ebook! 😀

“The Gryphon and the Mountain Bear” is the second story written for my collaborative adventure Facebook group.

Like “The Wind Mage of Maijev,” this one takes place approximately 200 years before the events of The Wishing Blade series and the Stone and String series.

Except, instead of a wind mage in a city that hates magic, we’re dealing with a shapeshifting thief and an uppity gryphon. Can the thief outwit the gryphon and get the treasures inside the ruins?

Read “The Gryphon and the Mountain Bear” to find out. ;-D

“The Gryphon and the Mountain Bear”

YA Fantasy Short Story

Fooling a gryphon? Not her ideal day of treasure hunting…

After a hunter cheats Nuaka in a game of cards, she’s ready for payback. A few shapeshifting ribbons later, she sneaks into his room and steals a promising set of directions to the local ruins—and treasure horde.

If she gets the treasure before he does, she’ll be rich, and that cheater will learn his lesson:

Don’t mess with the shapeshifter.

At first, everything goes smoothly.

And then she runs into the gryphon.

Can she use her wit and her magic to make it out of the ruins alive… and with her treasure?

Explore the trickery of a shapeshifter in this exciting short story.

Read “The Gryphon and the Mountain Bear” today!