The Rains of Imarcia Cover & Description

I’m pleased to announce the cover and description of my first novel, The Rains of Imarcia. Click on the cover to get a clearer, larger version.

Coming ~ Dec 15 2011

With Imarcia’s population dwindling daily, another world, one usually neutral in Imarcian dealings, becomes concerned. So when raiding escalates between the two cities of Elarrc and Renaci, a delegate is dispatched to interpose and attempt to stave off the impending war.

Windrunner Sey arrives upon Imarcian soil to lend an objective hand. She learns quickly that not only does she have to contend with the horrors the storms rain down almost daily and the stubbornness of the Rainwatchers who lead the two cities, but she must also fight the strong desire to run home through the high storms and leave Imarcia’s people to the deadly fate they seem to wish to embrace.

Magic Realism/Fantasy Romance/Secondary World Fantasy
(~101,000 words)

Cover Photo Copyright © Konradbak | Dreamstime.com

WotF Vol 28 3rd Q Winners and Extra

Congratulations to the three winners for quarter 3 for Writers of the Future:

1st Place – William Mitchell of London, England

2nd Place – M.O. Muriel of Texas

3rd Place – Jacob A. Boyd of Oregon

Can’t wait to meet you all next April! :)

My short story, Sand-child, will be published in Daily Science Fiction on November 25, available to read that day for everyone on their mailing list. Later on their website for those not getting the stories to their inbox. I’m super excited because this will be my first pro publication, even though it’s technically not my first pro sale. Yay :)

Also, the RibbonSight Collection has been published in paperback and is now available for $13.99 through Amazon. It’s supposed to be $11.99, but I can’t figure out how to change it. Me = technologically unsavvy :(

Novel: The Rains of Imarcia

The Rains of Imarcia, a novel set (surprise, surprise) in the world of Imarcia will be published mid-December of this year.

I will be aiming for a Dec. 15th publication date, but considering the inability to control the exact time when stories go live across all the sites I publish to, it is possible things might be a day or two early or late.

Back cover description and cover will be added in future posts in November and/or early December 2011.

The most updated information on forthcoming works can now be found on both the Forthcoming page as well as the specific world the story is set in. In this case, in the Imarcia World page.

New World: Imarcia

Announcing a new world:

Humid and hot, there are few places in Imarcia where the land becomes frozen. The rains come down often year round, with only a slight slackening during brief wintery seasons. The land is fertile, in plant and in herds.

Yet, despite that, the people live in metal covered cities, with only a day’s ride in all directions tilled and managed about them. They live hidden from the elements. Hidden from the rain. Above their heads, within their walls, the filters purr to life with each rainfall, sifting out the dangers of the rains that fall upon their land.

For on Imarcia, the rains kill…

Story announcement to follow :)

For the most part, stories set within these Worlds will likely all be indie published. All of my stand alone (or stand alone at-the-moment) stories are always subbed out to traditional markets, though if I write a short enough story set within one of these Worlds and I feel it might have a chance out there, I’d sub it as well (unlikely–though now that I say that I’m sure it will happen).

Regardless, everything is now listed in my bibliography page. Everything. It’s going to get long, which is why I decided it best to put the trad story sales at the top and showcase indie work by putting complete descriptions under the World the story took place in.

Ahh. Feeling free to write whatever I want is wonderful.

Also, Dara England created the new header that you see at the top of the page. I love it :)

Statues of the Sea Witch Re-Published

Statues of the Sea Witch, originally published in Emerald Tales, has been re-published and is now available on Amazon, B&N and Smashwords for 0.99¢.

Statues of the Sea Witch

The god-blessed people of Malihei have never feared the sea–until now. Sariaf’s life is left in turmoil after another of the sea witch’s attacks, and he decides it is finally time to rid his village of her, regardless of the price he must pay.

This story was my very first fiction publication.

RibbonSight: The Complete Collection Published

RibbonSight: The Complete Collection has been published and is now available in ebook form through Amazon, B&N and Smashwords for $4.99.  Trade paperback version to follow.

As a Navadin Council Investigator, Aly doesn’t have a lot of options. At least not any that matter. Yet, when her new partner, Sevori, starts pushing boundaries he shouldn’t, she begins to suspect he might be onto something.

From a castle with a mind of its own to a convoluted city hiding a dangerous burner, from a forest seeming almost alive to a small town in desperate need of saving, Aly and Sevori are sent all over the country of Emnik on assignment. Between a seer using broken ribbons to a runaway shifter, between pirates, children and the impressively skilled aged, they must fight.

Or discover a way to choose not to…

This collection includes the ten short stories: RibbonSight, Castle of the Corpse, Span of Imitators, Finding the Ribboned Snakes, Home for a Shifter, The Burner in Us All, Fragmented Seer, A Moving Evaluation, Only Council Aid and Pirate Mirror.

Q2 2011 WotF Winners, etc…

I’m a bit behind, so a late congrats to the Q2 Writers of the Future Winners:

William Ledbetter 1st Place – from Texas
Nicholas Tchan 2nd Place – from Sydney, Australia
Corry L. Lee 3rd Place – from Washington

Glad to see a girl in there, so at least I know I won’t be the only one :) Of course, she’s probably got a bit more brains on me considering she’s just received her PhD in Physics…a subject I will admit I have only a limited grasp on. Why, yes, my piece was fantasy, can’t you read my heading? Heh.

In any case…Congrats guys!

In other news as catch up…

Working on putting RibbonSight together into a collection right now. Stumbling my way through a pod version through Createspace at the moment and will announce when things have finally come together and have been published.

Also working behind the scenes on more upgrades to my site. I don’t like the way my bibliography is all set up right now and have been working slowly on a new way to showcase my indie published work, partially to separate it from my traditional work, partially because I have grand plans…(don’t we all)…and a million novels to write.

And a third tiny announcement that isn’t really an announcement at all. More like the announcement that an announcement is coming…I know, I know. I’m a dork.

But…yes.

There’s something fun coming. At least, it was fun for me :)