Category: Promotion
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Kora’s first raid, part 1: Excerpt from “The Crimson League: The Fight For Hope”
Monday means an excerpt here on the blog! Today I’m excited to share the first excerpt from an action scene, showing magic and civil war at play. This is from Kora’s first raid as a member of the Crimson League, the organized resistance against sorcerer-dictator Zalski Forzythe. Three veteran members of the league, all men,…
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The Crimson League shows everyone has something to contribute
Each leaguesman IS needed. Each one is beautifully necessary as the story of the League unfolds–the quiet ones and the brash ones, the thinkers and those who rush to act, the sensitive ones and the hardened ones. So it is in real life. Each one of us is unique and irreplaceable. We fight different flaws…
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On hope: why it’s worth fighting for
I find it intriguing that, as I work toward re-releasing my fantasy trilogy (and then a prequel), the publisher I’m working with suggested “The Fight for Hope” as a subtitle for the first installment. They suggested a few other subtitles, none of which I liked at all. “The Fight for Hope” grabbed at me, and…
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Character Spotlight: Sedder the Chivalrous
Each Tuesday before the June 15 release of “The Crimson League: The Fight for Hope” I will spotlight a character from the novel here on the blog. Last week was Lanokas, a nobleman in the League, whom I mentioned was one of two men in the story who is especially chivalrous. Sedder Foden is the…
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The ancient sorcerers: excerpt from “The Crimson League: The Fight for Hope”
Kora Porteg slammed her brother’s window shut as the autumn wind’s whistle died with a choke. The curtains fell limp against the wall. Kora didn’t usually attack windows in the quaint cottage she’d called home all her seventeen years, but she was alarmed at the state of this one. “Don’t leave your window open to…
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Character Spotlight: Lanokas the Lighthearted
As the June 15 launch of The Crimson League: The Fight for Hope approaches, I thought I’d spotlight a character each week. It didn’t take me long to decide to start with Lanokas (LAN-oh-kass), the Crimson League’s swordsman. I realized relatively recently that, apart from one couple who steals the show in book two of…
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Trouble at the schoolhouse–Excerpt from “The Crimson League: The Fight for Hope”
I’m excited to share a second excerpt from my upcoming sword and sorcery, action-adventure fantasy release. In this excerpt, Kora meets her brother on his way home from school (Zac is eleven. Kora is seventeen). It’s a fun scene because it reveals so much: Kora’s love for Zac, her fear for him, the uncertainty and…
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Kora finds out about Zalski Forzythe: excerpt from “The Crimson League: The Fight for Hope”
Yesterday, we explored the narrative technique of in media res and what inspired the character of Kora Porteg and her brother, Zacry. One fun aspect of that technique is that it allows for flashback scenes: such as when protagonist Kora, seventeen years old, reflects on the moment when she first learned that sorcerer Zalski Forzythe…
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Thoughts on “in media res” (and how “The Crimson League: The Fight for Hope” began)
I remember learning the term “in media res” in middle school, when we were learning about Homer, “The Iliad,” and “The Odyssey.” The teacher told us that “in media res” in a narrative technique in which a story starts in the middle of the action. I was much older when I started studying Latin and…
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Mark your calendars: “The Crimson League: The Fight for Hope” releases June 15, 2023!
Not a soul in Herezoth is safe while evil sorcerer, Zalski Forzythe, reigns supreme. There was a time when the magicked and commoners lived in peace. The Hall of Sorcery hidden high in the mountains was a place of reverence . . . Until the vicious sorcerer Hansrelto came to call. His attempted overthrow may…
Creative Writing with the Crimson League 