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Blog change complete!
My new blog is all set up! This one is dead as a door nail from hereon out (as far as not getting any more updates or whatever).
I really wish tumblr just let you switch your main blog from one to another. Extremely weird, but I guess there’s some strange reason behind it.
Blog relocation
Hey everyone! Isn’t tumblr’s system with having to keep one primary blog forever awesome??
Obviously I’m being sarcastic. So I really need to make this blog my primary one, and the only way I’m seeing that will work is just transferring the url and content, etc. to my primary blog, which is currently https://a-single-thread.tumblr.com/. Basically doing a blog switcheroo.
So this blog will still be around...sort of. Just relocated. But I’m going to lose you, my followers, which is the pits.
I will put a post about this on the Triforce of Power blog once it’s all completed. I figure I need to do it now before this blog has any more posts!
I apologize for any inconvenience! Thank you all so much for your support! <3
Review copies for The Changeling’s Fortune by M.C. Aquila & K.C. Lannon are available here: http://yaboundbooktours.blogspot.com/2018/07/review-copies-available-changelings.html?spref=tw …
A faery orphan. A runaway boy. A brewing war between humans and Fae.
When her unstable magic is unlocked, seventeen-year-old faery Deirdre becomes the target of an anti-faery general and flees Neo-London with his teenaged son. Their search for answers soon becomes a quest for freedom.
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Characters from The Changeling’s Fortune drawn in Disney style, surrounded by their favorite flowers!
It really tickled me when I realized one of Deirdre’s favorite flowers are “black” roses (aka various types of super dark purple or red roses). While her destructive and wild magic is edgy, she herself doesn’t fit the image of someone who prefers black over red roses. But night-blooming jasmine fits her quite easily.
James, a teenage bookworm who has studied many things, including flowers, would deny having favorite flowers, I think. Even though he wears that floral scarf all the time. Maybe it’s the rebellious side in him, I don’t know.
Iain, a solider and James’s brother, had the best flowers to color: yellow sunflowers and blue cornflowers. What else could an artist ask for? And compared to James, he definitely wouldn’t be so uptight about having favorite flowers, I reckon.
While I’m a huge wimp when it comes to horror, so many spooky stories have really made an impression (xxxholic, the first 3 seasons of Supernatural, Glitch by Cotton Valent, Stoker’s Dracula novel, etc.). I’ve tried several concepts in the past, chasing after a scary story of my own...only for all of them to ultimately fail.
This new concept is set in a bigger urban fantasy/fantasy/sci-fi universe I’ve already established for other stories. And the main character (concept above) has the gift of discernment of spirits (with pros and cons), which really covers a LOT of the pitfalls of my earlier concepts.
It’s just so easy for people to act like total idiots in horror stories because they have zero idea what they’re dealing with. This can be frustrating for the typical reader, who is painfully more genre-savvy than the characters. But with this character’s gift, he has some idea of what’s about, in all scenarios, so that should avoid many bad horror cliches.
So high hopes for this concept in the future! And not just because this was fun to sketch :)
Deirdre’s sense of tact and subtly is really exemplary.
Drew this to celebrate the release of my YA urban fantasy/dystopian book The Changeling’s Fortune today! This is a scene that would have been included if the book was a bit more of a comedy (though it still has plenty of character-driven humor throughout). My co-author (wisely) stopped me from making the book too silly.
Check out the first three chapters of the book HERE.
Also posted on my tumblr for Triforce of Power.
I made this for the ThursdayAesthetic tag on Twitter. The theme is “beginnings.” It is not so much about the beginning of the first chapter, but the beginning of the characters’ journeys.
Deirdre, a strong female protagonist, is a faery raised as a human orphan; her destiny begins with a fortune. James is a book-smart, half-Romani boy whose life changes when he receives a letter from his disappeared mother. His brother, Iain, a devoted soldier, has his destiny shaped by a selfless sacrifice.
Their stories begin here in THE CHANGELING’S FORTUNE by M.C. Aquila and K.C. Lannon, available May 25th!
You can read the first three chapters here FREE.
When two brothers encounter the same faery, an orphaned girl named Deirdre, they could end up on opposite sides of a growing conflict…
My debut YA Urban Fantasy novel that I co-authored with M.C. Aquila, THE CHANGELING’S FORTUNE, releases on Amazon on May 25th! It is avaliable for pre-order now. We have the first THREE CHAPTERS FREE on Aquila’s author website HERE.
Meet brothers Iain and James Callaghan, sons of an anti-faery general, Alan Callaghan.
James (bottom left) is a rebellious, albeit awkward, bookworm fascinated by faeries. Since his mother disappeared six years ago, he has been planning to find her and explore the outside world of faeries and magic in the process.
Iain (top left) is a rookie soldier in the Iron Guard, devoted to his father’s cause to help the city of Neo-London. Motivated by his need to protect his little brother and to atone for past mistakes, Iain attempts to become the soldier he has always wanted to be…
But someone is pulling Iain’s strings, and if he’s not careful, he could end up on the wrong side.
This is an aesthetic board for Deirdre, a faery growing up an orphan in the human world, her background unknown and her magic apparently non-existent. Though that all begins to change as her magic rekindles, out of control, completely overturning her life and her world.
She’s the heroine of the YA novel The Changeling’s Fortune that I am co-writing with K.C. Lannon. It releases in just 3 days!
If you like faery stories (new or old-fashioned), flawed but strong (ginger!) female leads, or character-driven YA urban fantasy, we have the first THREE CHAPTERS FREE on my author website HERE.
More information here.
Pre-Order HERE.
Unsure if it’s your type of read? The first 3 Chapters can be read FREE and in full HERE.
My co-author and I have striven to go out of our creative comfort zones with this book, all the while focusing on a genre we both love: character-driven YA that takes you on a magical and dangerous adventure, while not forgetting the characters’ humanity and relatable, everyday struggles (whether the characters are technically human or not).
Bridgette (temporary name), a heroine with an artiste’s temperament, from a story that my co-writer and I might do. It has everything: awesome female werewolves, burnt out vampire employees, disgruntled werewolf gods, stalker vampires (but not the hot kind), modern interpretative dance...and debt from college loans!
Just a first draft of her design, but we wanted a blonde because dark-haired heroines in vampire-related stories are a tad overdone.
I want those ballet shoes.
Also on my DA.
Characters from an alien & UFO satire story I’ve been planning for years...and years and years. With all the research involved, I’ve learned more about UFO encounters and abductions than any normal person should. But I wrote the first draft last autumn and am working on revising and editing it.
And I am SO EXCITED to publish it sometime this year! It’s the goofiest thing ever, but...it IS a satire.
Clifford, a Scotch-Irish Texan with really bad sunburn, is the protagonist. He is an auto mechanic with dreams of UFO-related grandeur and one of Wilhelmina’s most devoted (and easy-going) followers.
Marisol is Clifford’s long-time friend, and she lives alone with her abuela, Regina, mostly because no one else in their family can tolerate the nosy matriarch. She also has a zero tolerance level for UFO-related talk because she’s pretty sure Greys are devils in disguise.
Wilhelmina is...a mystery to everyone, including me. I don’t even know what her ethnic background is. The pamphlets she’s holding on the right are: “UFO and After Life” (her grammar kinda sucks sometimes), “Pleiadian Pals,” “Roswell and You,” and finally one just titled “The Truth” with a crudely drawn picture of a Reptilian alien.
Regina knows all and sees all. She’s kind of like the sweet old lady version of the Eye of Sauron.
Armstrong (which is his surname) is one of my favorites because he’s a Yankee in the South, and I can very much relate to that. He was quite scandalized the first time he saw people parking on lawns.
Menhit is Clifford’s family cat, based partially off of my own (deceased) Chantilly-Tiffany. She has such a kindly personality that I originally named her “Yzma” after the character from The Emperor’s New Groove, but I changed my mind when I realized Disney might sue me.
And just to be clear, this story does have aliens...but this is silly enough as it is. So back to writing!
(Also on my DA)
A comic about how co-writing with me is horrible. I do this EVERY TIME we brainstorm on anything, and every time, for some reason, I always crack up at all my dumb ideas, thereby wasting more time.
I guess I’m just doomed to be the Larry the Cucumber of our creative duo.
Also on my DA.
An idea sketch for the cave-y parts of Hades.
Ganondorf: This monster looks really weak...and he’s singing to himself...maybe we should just ignore him...
Link: I can’t hear you over the sound of the rupees I’m about to get.
Cai and Deirdre from an upcoming YA urban fantasy series (with fairies!) that a friend and I are writing. The first book should be out in early January, if God and our Beta readers allow!
I was inspired by fall colors popping up (even down here in the South!), and a sketch of two gingers with a bright blue sky behind them was the a natural result. Apparently. It was fun for sure!
Also on my DA.
Who’s with me? :D
A sketch of Link from my comic Triforce of Power, a couple years before the story begins, finding his uncle dead just outside of Ordon and in full view of the Sorceress’ weird castle. She liked her castles big and ostentatious. She probably had lightning bolts shooting around it most of the time, but I didn’t want this to get too busy.
And thus Link set out on his quest to save the day and get justice! ...Actually he probably went out to get revenge, at least at first, because his fairy was not a very good moral guide. But tally-ho!
Also on my DA.
