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May 3rd #FantasyIndiesMaytober

Saturday Snippet - "Fear"

This is a section from one of my favourite scenes in the first 25% of Darkling.

I’m really happy about where ‘Fear’ fell in this piece. If I’d shared anything else before or after this section, there’d have been spoilers abound!

"I just want you to leave," he insisted, expression shifting from pleading to resigned, and in two long strides he was beside her, on hand lightly touching her elbow as she flinched, stopping her from retreating further. "But it’s too late," he added softly. "They’re here." His gaze was fixed past her, and Lizzy spun around quickly, ridges of sand rising up around her feet as she twisted, almost sending her stumbling but the foreign fingers still resting against her elbow tightened, and kept her steady. It took her a moment to spot them. Long enough that fear began whispering that maybe he'd lied. That maybe she was about to feel teeth against her skin, but then a near-skeletal form staggered out from between two of the small, brightly painted, wooden huts and Lizzy felt herself freeze. "Squirrel shit," she hissed, panic clawing at her throat.

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The cover for Changeling, book one of the Fey Touched Trilgoy, was created by the fantastic people at Getcovers, and I couldn't be happier with it.

I honestly went into the design phase with only an incredibly vague idea of what I might want included, and they knocked it out of the park.

And now, I'm one step closer to having a publication date set in stone...

(Taglists under cut)

General & Fey Touched Taglists: @faelanvance @noirepersonal @queen-kass-the-writer @athenswrites @thelaughingstag @minamoroz @bardic-tales @cedar-west @ettawritesnstudies @jezifster

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I’ve been searching for this for so long and you guys are so helpful! I’m looking for a fic where rose came back from Pete’s world with the help of a carrionite and the shadow proclamation. She was found by jack and torchwood who she ends up working for for a while before joining back up with the doctor and Martha during the Lazarus experiment episode. Can you help? I’ve been searching forever lol

Sorry, Nonny, we do not know this one!  Can anyone help?

11/20 Edited to Add:  @buffyann23 has suggested it could be A Rose By Any Other Name, by AristaHolmes.  Does this fit the bill?

[author-a-holmes]

The cover for Changeling, book one of the Fey Touched Trilgoy, was created by the fantastic people at Getcovers, and I couldn't be happier with it.

I honestly went into the design phase with only an incredibly vague idea of what I might want included, and they knocked it out of the park.

And now, I'm one step closer to having a publication date set in stone...

[author-a-holmes]

Day 21 of the #writerfriendschallenge - Share a Proud Moment…

Making my first £10 in Royalties

I have a locket that I always intended to keep my first £10 in royalties inside. But I expected that to take several months.

I never even dreamed that would happen in the first month, the first week, that Changeling was on sale.

And then the absolutely wonderful reviews? I honestly couldn't have hoped for more.

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Day 9 of the #fictionwriterchallenge - What's Your Big Author Dream?

I don't know if my dreams would be considered "big" author dreams, really

I'm not trying to be a "best selling author" or make it onto the NYT Best Seller List, or even be a houshold name. My goals, dreams, are comparatively simple.

I want my books to be read, and my characters to be loved.

I'd, ideally, like to be earning enough from my books to fascilitate my continuing to write them.

But my main goal is for people to read my books, to love my characters, and to spread enjoyment with a quality product.

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Day 15 of the #fictionwriterchallenge - Favourite Opening Line?

This stumbles straight into one of my pet peeves; The sheer weight put on the opening line of a book.

As a reader, I have never, once, in my whole life, opened a book, read the first line, and closed it again.

The first page, even, is usually something I'll push past. I'll read a couple of pages, give the book a chance to grab me.

If a book hasn't grabbed me by the end of the first chapter, that's the earliest I might quit a book, but even on a mediocre book, I'm probably going to give it until the end of chapter two.

… Anyway… I think some of my favourite openings to books include "Belgarath the Sorcerer" by David and Leigh Eddings, and "Wuthering Heights" by Emily Bronte. Both give really strong characterization straight off the bat that I love.

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Day 11 of the #fictionwriterchallenge - What Is Your WIP's Title?

Darkling

My current Work in Progress is the sequel to my debut novel, Changeling.

I chose the title 'Darkling' because the meaning of the word is "growing dark or characterized by darkness", and I wanted a title that hinted at the slowly changing tone of book two from book one.

That's not to say there aren't light moments, but the stakes are being raised for Lizzy and her friends in this book, and I like hinting at themes in a book's title

At this stage, I'm sure anyone who has read Changeling knows what secret I was hinting at with that title!