December Reads for When You’re Peopled Out
December is the perfect month to slip away from the holiday bustle with a warm drink, a soft blanket, and a magical story. Here are three cosy fantasy and paranormal reads to help you unwind when you’re feeling thoroughly peopled out.
Need a good book to curl up with? Break out the hot chocolate and settle in with The Chic Crone, paranormal fantasy with class and sass. #FreeBook #CozyFantasy #UrbanFantasy #BookPromotion #MidlifeMagic
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Midlife magic, a snarky cat, and more trouble than one crone bargained for. It's never too late to spark a little magic.
The Chic Crone ebook is FREE right now on Amazon — but only for a little while! #books #CozyFantasy #UrbanFantasyBooks #MidlifeMagic
Sixty, broke, and newly magical, Olivia Furie was not planning to rescue a missing fae prince…
But destiny had other plans.
Crone of Flames is a cozy fantasy of midlife magic, fae intrigue, and found family
Special ebook preorder price: $0.99 on Amazon
Launches October 31
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Familiars with Attitude
In many fantasy stories, familiars are mysterious, silent creatures—always present, but rarely heard. That’s … not how it works in Rowanswood. Here, familiars have personalities as big as their Crones’, and plenty of attitude.
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What Does It Mean to Be a Crone?
I’ll admit it: when I first heard the word crone as a child, it wasn’t flattering. It conjured up images of bent old women with crooked noses, muttering curses over cauldrons. It was a word meant to diminish, to make invisible. Not exactly a flattering image.
So I'm reading Mrs Beeton's Book of Household Management - research for a book I'm writing. Mrs Beeton was the Martha Stewart of the Victoria era - not a book I would have picked up in the normal course of events.
What books have you read for 'research' that otherwise you'd never have read? #writing
Imagine if Legends & Lattes had a sixty-year-old heroine with failing fire magic, a sarcastic cat familiar, and a halfling prince who vanishes just when she needs him most.
Crone of Flames launches October 31, but advance readers get their hands on an early copy.
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The Enchanted Village of Rowanswood
For me, Rowanswood isn’t just scenery, it’s a character. Every shopfront, every stone wall, has a story to tell. Villages like this draw us in because they feel safe and cozy, yet they whisper of magic just out of sight.
Why do I write about women in their sixties finding adventure? Isn’t fantasy supposed to be all about the young and shiny? Well, no. Not in my world
What if the every-day heroine is sixty, grieving, and unsure where she belongs in the world?
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A weekend update! It's never too late to spark a little magic!
From August 25 - August 28, The Chic Crone is on sale for $0.99 on the Kindle store (it's also on Kindle Unlimited). #cozyfantasy #midlifemagic, #fae, #slowburnromance #books #magic #adventure #cats
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and Magnus turned out to be the reader’s favourite characters. It’s gone to their heads and they’ve been demanding a story of their own. Enter Steeped in Suspicion, Hamish and Magnus Investigate. I’m releasing it first in serial form in my monthly newsletter to you, my lovely readers. 3/
When this occurs at the same time as runaway characters start kicking on my office door (metaphorically speaking - I’m not that far gone…yet), the outcome is a foregone conclusion. To back up a minute, feedback on The Chic Crone has overwhelmingly included comments that Hamish 2/
Around the time I hit the two thirds mark writing a book, I have the overwhelming urge to start something new. Call it a burning desire to avoid filling in the plot holes I’ve left in my wake as long as possible. 1/
Today is Midsummer's Eve, aka the summer solstice aka Litha on the pagan calendar. It's one of the three spirit nights of the year when the veil between the realms is the thinnest. #summersolstice #litha #magic #mgbooks
And about that $4B SpaceEx explosion today ... seems like that would have paid for a lot of Medicare and Medicaid.
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Everything old is new again. Sigh. We just don't seem to learn.
Cutest thing ever!
When a bullied boy is unexpectedly turned into a python, his opportunity for revenge comes with complications.
#friendship #bullying #grief #courage #urbanfantasy
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I'm so pleased that The Chic Crone was included in this list! Top job by cover designer Vera Drmanovski! #midlifemagic #paranormal #fantasy #womensfiction
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