Do you love reading fantasy? This post highlights two authors whose books invite you into imaginative realms.
Author Deborah Lambert
At a young age, Deborah's rampant imagination kept her up, lending great detail to all the terrible things lurking in the night. In desperation, her mother suggested she invent her own stories to distract her brain. She has been doing that since, channelling her ideas into mainly sword and sorcery-style fantasy novels and shorts.
Author Interview
1. What do you love about this book?
The dragons and their personalities were my favourite part of writing these tales! From the loquacious, bubbly fairy dragons to the stoic, paternal silver dragon, I fell in love with their voices and view of the world!
2. What do you find most challenging about being a writer?
Finding time to do what I love! The stories within refuse to be ignored. It would be easier if I could just push them aside, but instead I have to fit them in somewhere!
3. What is the most rewarding aspect of writing for you?
I love being part of a story as it unfolds, meeting the characters, learning about the world, and then following the characters to the end of their tale. Seeing what they have become and what they can do makes me feel like a proud mother!
Featured Book: Dragon’s Talon - Weapons of Espar Book 1
The unexpected crossing of paths sets Cairon Mirk, Keeper of Dragon Pass and exile from Espar, on a quest to displace the Lionian invaders and place the rightful king on the throne. The quest comes with brutal consequences for him, his dragons, and the would-be king himself.
A promise that brings war...
When the king was killed by his advisor, only the DragonKeeper knew the truth. She was exiled and, without her support, the Kingdom of Espar fell to the Lionian Sovereignty.
Fifty years later, Cairon Mirk is the DragonKeeper, and he has little sympathy for the Esparans who abandoned his grandmother. But an oath remains, that he will defend the line of the Kings of Espar. When he stumbles across Danoron Galanth and his sister Gensiana, helping the Heirs of Espar enrages the Sovereignty and brings a bounty onto the heads of dragons. To save his dragon family, Cairon must abandon his isolated life and do battle with the invincible Lionian Sovereignty.
But the Sovereignty does not act alone. Traitors hide among the Esparan rebels. New weapons are raised against the dragons, able to burn even a silver's scale. And an enemy of the past has come to end both Cairon's reign as Dragonkeeper and his life.
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Author Veronica Knox
Veronica is the author of 12 novels. She writes time-slip art history-mysteries, ghost romances, and historical fantasy with themes of reincarnation and romantic elements. The Bede series is middle-grade but written in a more literary style for adults. 'Snow Behind the Door' is the last book in the series.
Author Interview
- What's something you love about this book?
Issues resolved themselves naturally from the first 3 books in the Bede Series which meant the final book four, ‘SNOW BEHIND THE DOOR’, seemed like the capstone of a great pyramid of words. Relief!
- What do you find most challenging about being a writer?
Feeling invisible outside the writing room. Silence is not golden.
- What is the most rewarding aspect of writing for you?
When the perfect word or phrase comes from the blue and intuitively rings true.
Featured Book
SNOW BEHIND THE DOOR is the memoir of a child ghost with amnesia.
A million years after I broke the world, I said I was sorry. But until I truly mean it, my truth is frozen in time. My companions are a rabbit doll, a keyhole named Jack, and a disgruntled stately home. And so, I remain, age nine, adrift in the House of Reincarnations where the scent of lavender once started an endlessly cold war.
After being reunited with her family, Snow, the child ghost of Bede Hall, retreats into her subconscious to escape the terrifying possibility of haunting Bede Hall forever. In order to save herself, Snow must battle her way through memory loss, dream her way through time to reclaim her lost memories, make peace with a past life, and discover if reincarnation is a viable alternative to a fate worse than death.
MAYBE WHEN ONE DOOR SLAMS SHUT, ANOTHER DOOR CREAKS OPEN!
THE BEDE SERIES IN A NUTSHELL
Bede Hall, a disgruntled stately home nestled against Hadrian’s Wall in England, must convince a pair of telepathic twins, at odds over logic and metaphysics, to save it from being sold to unscrupulous developers, fulfill an ancient prophecy, and rescue its resident ghost. But sending them to ancient Egypt, Pangea, and Mars turns out to be the shortest route to saving the planet from a nuclear winter. – a magical realism time-slip adventure for middle-grade adults. Volume one of four.
Check out the first book in the Bede series here: https://bedeseries.wordpress.com
If you would like to sample Victoria’s adult writing style, try 'DISAPP'EARRING TWICE’, her latest adult read.
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B085SYZPGG
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ART HISTORY DELIVERED IN A GHOST STORY
Website: http://www.veronicaknox.com
A note from Katrina...
Though I haven’t read any of Veronica’s books yet, I’ve had the pleasure of reading Deborah’s Weapons of Espar series. It’s a fun escape into a complex world of sword and sorcery, dragons and hidden kings. I’ve featured both authors here as an opportunity for the Hive community to learn about new books.
Check them out, you might find your next read!
Whatever happens, keep singing your song!
Peace 