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April 22, 2025 · 6:53 am

🎉 The Legends of Cirena Volume One Ebook is here!

🥳 Happy eBook Birthday, Legends of Cirena Volume One! 🎉

Though the print edition has been available for a couple years, I’ve finally compiled the ebook edition!

(I don’t know why I didn’t compile it sooner… ebooks are usually easier to format than print versions.)

In the meantime, let’s toast (I choose coffee!) to the new book! ☕

🗨️ Here’s what reviewers are saying so far:

“Although all the stories are set in the same world and are deeply shaped by it, they blend the common fantasy with a variety of different genres, from the espionage thriller of ‘Scars of Her Past’ to the dark adventure of ‘The Cursed Halls of Kalecen’. This balance of commonality and difference means readers who enjoy one story are unlikely to find the others utterly not to their taste, while those who approach the collection in a single sitting are unlikely to wish for greater variety.” ~ Dave H.

Legends of Cirena Volume One is now available at most major online retailers! 😀

~ Legends of Cirena Volume One ~

Legends of Cirena Volume One Ebook Cover

Brave a storm. Fool a gryphon. Mount a perilous rescue.
Become legend.

Explore the lives of legends in this fantasy collection of six stand-alone short stories and novellas from the world of Cirena!

A wind mage hides from a storm in a city that hates mages in
The Wind Mage of Maijev.
A shapeshifting thief must outwit a treasure-loving gryphon in
The Gryphon and the Mountain Bear.
A “dragon” uses scrying magic to help a child rescue his family from slavers in
The Restless Sands of Neel.
A duelist confronts a deranged god of justice to protect his student in
The Cursed Halls of Kalecen.
A merchant with a terrible secret must aid a former enemy to save the city in
The Scars of Her Past,
and a priestess searches for a lost traveler in the isolated realm of dragons in
The Dragons of the Mist.

The legends begin . . .

Grab the Legends of Cirena Volume One ebook for only $9.99!
(Save $5 by buying the ebook box set compared to buying each story individually)

Ebook

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Happy reading! 📚

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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 * 🪽
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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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August 29, 2024 · 6:09 am

🐺 – 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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August 14, 2024 · 10:00 am

⚔ – 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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July 31, 2024 · 7:35 am

🌲 – 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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July 23, 2024 · 10:16 pm

🐎 – Book Quote – Omen of the Lost

Book quote day! First time attempting an Instagram Reel. Already realizing I’ll probably need to pull out the microphone if I want to do this for future posts.

This one is from the third book in my Wishing Blade series, Magebane.

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He raced directly into the wind, his head low. Stumps erupted from behind his shoulders and lengthened, twice his length, and then sprouted reddish-brown feathers. He leapt. The wings repelled a gust of wind strong enough to knock Siklana off her feet and stagger Daernan. She quickly righted herself, but she could do nothing to stop gawking at the creature as he flew above them.

The winged horse circled twice, and then landed daintily. He tested his wings by folding them in and out, and then flicked his tail, his chin tucked in what could only be described as annoyance.


A tashim rises in Magebane . . .
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July 17, 2024 · 7:37 am

🐎 – 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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July 3, 2024 · 7:44 am

⚒️ 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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August 10, 2021 · 8:03 am

Weekly Book Promotion Highlight

This week I’m featuring the Other Worlds SciFi and Dystopian Teen Reads ebook fair!

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This ebook fair has science fiction and dystopian YA ebooks:

Other Worlds SciFi and Dystopian Ebook Fair

(Note: Prices vary, so check before buying. Some may be available at multiple retailers and some may only be available on Amazon.)

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I hope you find a good book! 😀

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July 27, 2021 · 8:26 am

Weekly Book Promotion Highlight

This week I’m featuring the Free & Fantastic YA Books ebook giveaway!

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Whether you enjoy young adult books with a science fiction or fantasy theme, this ebook giveaway has a bunch to choose from:

Free & Fantastic YA Books Ebook Giveaway

(Note: The giveaway above is hosted through BookFunnel. Authors will usually ask for your email address, and in many cases, the author will collect these addresses for their newsletters.)

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I hope you find a good book! 😀

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