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🪽 – 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 * 🪽
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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 . . .


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🐺 – 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 * 🐺
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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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⚔ – Book Art – The Trial

Today’s book art is the cover art (sans title) from The Trial of Bells and Blood!

⚔ * The Trial * ⚔
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A man in pale white robes with a unicorn protruding from his forehead holds a sort to the throat of a nervous man crouched by an orange boulder. He holds his hands out defensively. A woman stands next to the man with the sword, watching skeptically. Her hand is on the pommel of her own sword. The scene is sandy and the figures are silhouetted by bright sunlight.

Featuring: Hahven and Alia
Book: The Trial of Bells and Blood (Legends of Cirena #8)
Medium: Daz Studio with Iray, and Photoshop CS6
Description: Tormented by the judgmental desires of the horn on his head, Hahven confronts a murderer while his keeper, a merchant who reluctantly returns to the skills of her past, keeps him from doing anything too rash.

Judgement is cast in The Trial of Bells and Blood . . .
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🌲 – Book Art – Out of the Shadows

For today’s book art, I focused on Toranih’s character. Here I went for atmosphere rather than a specific scene.

(Warning! Potential Spoilers for The Wishing Blade Series ahead)


🌲 * Out of the Shadows * 🌲
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Featuring: Toranih
Book: Magic’s Stealing (The Wishing Blade #1)
Medium: Daz Studio 4.15 with Iray, and Photoshop CS5
Description: Trapped in the shadow realm, Toranih discovers that the one thing that seems to bring her back into the mortal realm, even temporarily, is the use of her magic. Here, we see her as mage with Magic’s Sight might see her, half-visible as she flees through the forest and draws on her magic ribbons to begin her return to the mortal realm.

Shadows coalesce in Magic’s Stealing . . .
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🐎 – Book Art – Omen of the Lost

Today’s book art is one I created for the Wishing Blade Universe. This time around we have a tashim.

(WARNING: Spoilers for a character in Magebane)

🐎 * Omen of the Lost * 🐎
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A palomino, winged horses flies above a grassy plain, his wings highlighted by the sun and framed by distant snowy mountains.

Featuring: Kirse’Vé
Book: Magebane (The Wishing Blade #3)
Medium: Daz Studio 4.15 with Iray, and Photoshop CS5
Description: Though Kirse’Vé (translated: Starspeed/Speed of Stars) usually presents as nothing more than a mortal equine, he is a tashim, a messenger for the goddess of death. Tashimme are known in Cirena to reveal themselves when someone important dies.
Here, he receives an omen regarding an innocent town, which accidentally causes him to reveal himself to Siklana and Daernan.

A tashim rises in Magebane . . .
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⚒️ Book Art – Forging the Wishing Blade

📚 Weekly book art post with art created by Isaac and I!

⚒️Forging the Wishing Blade ⚒️
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A blacksmith works on a glowing hot sword over an anvil, with blue and purple magic streaming into the sword.

Featuring: Lord Cafrash Menchtoteale
Book: Magic’s Stealing (The Wishing Blade #1)
Medium: Daz Studio 4.15 with Iray, and Photoshop CS5
Description: A blacksmith with fire ribbons, Cafrash is assigned by the trickster god, Isahna to create a weapon that will steal the ribbon magic from Cirena. Here, he creates the blade. (Arguably we didn’t see the magic of Cirena stolen until the blade was complete and he made the wish, but hey… artistic license).

The sword is forged in Magic’s Stealing . . .
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Preparing for GeekUP 2023!

Hey there! Just wanted to give a shout out that we’re preparing for Geek UP 2023!

If you’re going to be in the Houghton, Michigan area on September 9th, come check out some awesome vendors, a fun cosplay contest, and three celebrity guests (Hint… if you like Sonic the Hedgehog or Legend of Zelda go peek at the link above for more info on the voice actors who are going to be there!).

Plus, it’s a charity event, and this year is benefiting Unite Mental Health and Wellness. 🙂

Isaac and I plan to be there as well with our books and art (and stickers!), and we’ll have Starless Night available in paperback for the first time!

Come stop by our booth, and don’t miss our new interactive element this year… find out what kind of Wishing Blade Universe magic you would have! (Let’s just say you’ll get to choose a ribbon, place it in our handy little “revealing light” box to see what color it glows, and then match that to one of the characters who uses the same kind of ribbon magic. We’ve been enjoying the arts and crafts element a bit too much this year.) 😉

Overall, we’re really looking forward to the event, and I’m happy to report that we actually have almost everything ready to go this time (no staying up until 3am on Friday night frantically trying to finish organizing stuff).

Meanwhile, here’s a sneak peek of the stickers we’re going to have available (if you haven’t seen them debut at Black Ice Comics and Books).

Looking forward to seeing everybody there. 😁

(( P.S. I know I’m overdue on the monthly status report for Infinitas Publishing… by a couple months now. Hopefully I’ll get that written up after the event as well. And send out a couple of newsletters. All is well! Just been trying to get everything organized. 😃 ))

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