Happy New Year Dragonlings!

That’s right. It’s official. I’ve finally pressed the “publish” button on my new website, and I’m sending out my first newsletter.

Newsletter Send Date: Friday, January 31, 2020

This year is going to be exciting, filled with new adventures and fun activities.

But first, a little about myself. I’m a mother of two school-aged monster munchkins and a wife of a man way more patient with my shenanigans than I probably deserve.

I love anything and everything Star Wars, and my husband and I plan to go see the new movie for our anniversary. Our anniversary is on the January 4, but we’ll most likely celebrate the week after as he works on our anniversary. Han shot first. Fight me.

I write paranormal romance but love me some dragons. Starting next month, I’ll hopefully be sharing some covers with you of the projects I’m working on and aiming for release this year. Maybe I’ll even have a pre-order link available then. *The Twilight Zone theme music plays*

Bye Dragonlings!

Author Resource

Tarot for Writers

by Corrine Kenner

Once reserved for mystics and seers, the tarot is one of the best tools for boosting your creativity and shifting your imagination into high gear.

Famous authors such as John Steinbeck and Stephen King have used the tarot deck to tap into deep wells of inspiration, and you can enliven your own writing the same way―whether you craft short stories, novels, poetry, nonfiction, or even business proposals.

This book on reading tarot cards and applying them to your writing will guide you through each stage of the creative process, from fleshing out a premise to promoting a finished work. Enhance your storytelling technique through over 500 enjoyable writing prompts, exploratory games for groups and individuals, tarot journaling, and other idea-stimulating activities that call upon the archetypal imagery and multi-layered symbolism in the tarot. Infuse flair and originality into your work as you learn to:

Interpret symbols, myths, and learn to read all seventy-eight cards in the tarot card deck
Use classic tarot layouts and spreads to structure your story
Brainstorm story ideas and develop dialogue and plot
Create detailed settings, powerful scenes, and dynamic characters
Overcome writer’s block and breathe new life into existing projects

As a writer, you hold the power of creation in your hands. By exploring the tarot and incorporating it into your writing practice, you will set your creative potential soaring to new heights.

Fiction Fling

Alison Henry and the Creatures of Torone

by C.J. Darlington

After being picked on at school yet again, Alison Henry seeks refuge in her favorite place, the woods behind her cabin home. Her day couldn’t get any worse. At least that’s what she thinks before she spots the magnificent buck. Desperate to protect the deer from a teenage gang out to shoot him, Ali has no idea she’s about to begin the adventure of a lifetime. This buck is no ordinary deer, and it turns out Ali is no ordinary girl.

When she suddenly begins to hear the buck talking in her head, she thinks she’s going crazy. She certainly can’t be The Interpreter this buck named Artemis says she is, the one destined to bring together the men and creatures of his realm. She’s just a kid who misses her deployed father and gets teased at school for wearing the wrong clothes. But Artemis is convinced. She must follow him.

Before the full moon sets Alison Henry finds herself in the strange land of Torone where evil beasts trap and devour the creatures of the woods and the rightful heir to the throne is hunted and on the run.

What can one girl possibly do?

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